Milford chronicle., 1888-02-17

soon went INTO bankruptcy his new style
Of business put him into evil association. He
lost his morals as well as his money. He
broke up not only his own home, but broke
up another mans home, and from being
kind, pure, generous, moral man as any Of
you who sit here today, has becomea home
less, penniless libertine His wife's ambition
for more genteel business destroyed him
and disgraced her and blighted their only
child.
But suppose now there be in our homes, as
thank God there are in hundreds of homes
here represented, on the wifely throne one
who says not only by her words but more
powerfully by her actions: "My husband, our
destinies are united; let US see where indus
try, honesty, common sense and faith in God
will put us. am with you in all your ell
terprises l cannot be with you in person as
you so to your daily business, but l will be
with you in my prayers. Let us see what we
can achieve by having God in our hearts, and
God in our lives, and God in our homes BE
on the side of everything good. Go ahead
and do your best, and though everything
should turn out different from what VIC
have calculated, you may always count Oh
two who are going to help you, and God is
one and am the other That man may have
feeble health, and may meet with many
obstacles and business trials, but he is
coming gloriously through, for he is re-
enforced, and inspired, and spurred on by
woman's voice, as much as was BarGk by
Deborah, when Sisera, with 900 iron chariots,
came on to crush him and his army, and
Deborah shouted in the ear Of Barak; "Upl
for this is the day in which the Lord hath
delivered Sisera into thine hands" +" And the
enemy fell back, and Sisera's chariot not get
fua 4saA1s Flen
general jumped out and took it afOot, and ran
till he came to place where woman first
gave him drink of milk, and then sent a
spike through his skull, mailing him to the
floor.
Some Of us could tell of what influence
upon us has been wifely ambition con-
secrated to Righteousness As my wife is out
of town and will not shake her head because
say it in public, I viii state that in my own
professional life l bave often been called Of
God, as I thought, to run into the very teeth
CT public opinion, and all outsiders with
whom advised told NC had better not, it
would ruin me and rum my church, and at
the same time / was receiving nice little let
tcrs threatening me with dirk and pistol and
poison if persisted in attacking certain evils
of the day, until the commissioner of police
considered it his duty to take his place
in cur Sabbath services, with forty Off
GERS scattered through the house for the
preservation of order; but in my home there
has always been one voice to say: "Go ahead
and diverge not an inch from the straight
line. Who cares if only God is on our sideFi
And though sometimes it seemed as if l was
going out against 800 iron chariotS, l went
ahead cheerod by the domestic voice: "Upl \
for this is the day in which the Lord hath .
delivered Sisera into thine handsn
A man is no better than his wife will let
him be- Oh, wives Of America, swing your
scepters of wifely influence for God and good
honest Do not urge your husbands TO an
mex Nabotls vineyard to your palace Of sue
cess, whether right or wrong, lest the dogs
that come out to destroy NabOth come out
also to dovour you. Righteousness will pay
best in life, will pay best in death, win pay
best in the Judgment, win pay best through
all eternity.
In our effort to have the mother of every
household appreciate her influence over her
children we are apt to forget the wifes infiu-
ence over the husband. lii many households
the influence upon the husband is the only
home influence. IL a great multitude of the
best and most important and most tai
ented families of the earth there have
been no descendants. There is not a
child or a grandchild or any remote descend
ant of Washington or Charles Sumner or
Shakespeare or Edmund Burke or Pitt or
Lord Nelson or C9wper or Pope or Addison
or johnson or Lord Chatham or Grattan OF
Isaac Newton or Goldsmith or Swift CT
Locke Or Gibbon or Walpole or Canning or
Dryden or More or Chaucer or Lord Byron
or Walter Scott OF Oliver Cromwell or Gar
rick or Hogarth or Joshua Reynolds or Spen-
Ger or Lord Bacon or Macauley. Multitudes
of the finest families Of the earth are extinct.
As though they had done enough for the
world by their genius or wit or patriotism
or invention or conservation, God withdrew
them In multitudes Of cases all woman's
for usefulness is with her con
How important that it be an
improved opportunity
While the French warriors on their way to
Rheims had about concluded to give up at
tacking the castle at Troyes because it was so
heavily galTisoned, Joan Of Arc entered the
room and told them they would be inside the
castle i'll three days ''We would willingly
wait six days said one of the leaders. "SixIn
she cried out, ''you shall be in it tomorrow
and under her leadership on the morrow
they entered. On a smaller scale every man
has gaTrisons to subdue and obstacles to level,
and every wife may be an inspired Joan Of
Arc to her husband.
What noble, wifely ambition, the deter
God helping, to accompany her
across the stormy sea of this life,
and together gain the wharf of the celestial
cityl Coax him along with youl You can
not drive him there. You cannot nag him
there, but you can coax him there. That is
Gods plan. He eoazes US all the way
coaxes us out of our sins, coaxes rs to accept
pardon, coaxes Us to heaven. II we reach
that blessed place it will be through a pro-
longed and divine coaxing, By the same
process take your coup. nion, and then you
will get there as we'll and all your house
hold. Do just the opposite to your neighbor
Her wifely ambition is all for this
world, and a disappointed and vexcd
and Unhappy creature she will be all the
way Her residence may be better than
yours for the few years Of earthly stay, but
she will move out of it as to her body into
house about five and half feet long and
about three feet wide and two feet nigh, and {
her souls destiny you can make I
your own prognostication. Her husband,
and her sons and daughters, who all, like her.
live for this world, will have about the same
destiny for the body and soul You having
had a sanctifed and divinely ennobled wifely
ambition, will pass up into palaces, and what
becomes Of your body is Of no Importance, ,,
for It is only a seafrolding, pulled down now
hat your temple is done. You will stand in
.he everlasting rest and see your husband !
come in, and see your children come ill., if I.
hey have not preceded you. Glorifed Chris.
Jan wife! Pick up any crown you choose
from OF the kings footstool and wear it; it
was promised you long ago and with it
cover upail the scars Of your earthly conflict.
Sixteen miles from Petersburg, Russia, 7
was one Of the roy9i palaces, and there one
night Catherine, the empress, entertained
I,rlLee Henry It was severe winter aud
ieep snow, and the empress and the prince
'Ode in a magnifcence Of sleigh and robe and
canopy never surpassed, followed by 1000
ileighs laden with the first people Of Russia,
he whole length of the distance illumined by
amps and dazzling temples built for that one !
hight, and limitations of mosques and Egyp-