Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-02-23

you IN my prayers. Let % 500 what ~
can achieve bv having God in Our heart0
and God in ot.f lives. and God in our
homes. Be on the eide Of every thing
good. Go ahead and do your best aud
though every thing should turn out dif-
ferent from what we have calculated, you
may always count ou 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 glorious
" through, for he is reinforced. and in-
spired, and spurred on by q woman's voice.
as much as was Barak by Deborah, whom
Sisera with nine hundred iron chariots
came on to crush him and his army, and
Deborah shouted in the ear OF Barak:
'Up! for this II the day in which the
Lord hath delivered Sisera into thine
hands," And the enemy fell back aud
Sisera's chariot not getting along fast
erlough!inlthe retreat, the General jumped
out and took 1t afoot, and ran till no came
toa place where q woman first gave him
drink of milk and then sent q spike
through his skull, mailing him to the floor.
Some of us could tell of what influence
upon us has been a wifely ambition con-
sesrsted to righteousness. As my wife is
ont of town and will not shake her head
because say it IN public, will state that
In nv own professional life have often
been called of God. as I thought, to run
into the very teeth of public opinion, and
all outsiders with whom l advised told
me had better not, it would ruin me and
ruin my church, and at the same time
was receiving nice little letters threaten
ing me with dirk aud pistol and poison il
persisted in attacking certain evils OF
the day, until the commissioner OF police
consd cred it his duty to take his place in
ouf Sabbath services with forty officers
scattered through the house for the
preservation Of order, but in my home
there has Away been one voice to say:
"Go shead, and diverge not an inch
from the straight line, Who cares II only
God is on our side"
And though sometimes 1t seemed as il
was going out against nine hundred iron
chariots, went ahead, cheered by the
domestic voice:
"Up! for this is the day in which the
Lord hath delivered Sisera into thine
hands,"
A man is no better than his wife willie
him be. U wives of America, swing your
scepters of wifely influence for God and
good homes! Do not urge your husbands
to annex Naboth's vineyard to your pail
ace OF success, whether right or wrong.
lest the dogs that come out to destroy Ma
both come out also to devour you. Right
eousness will pay best in life, will pay
best in death, will paw best in the judS-
ment. will pay best through all eternity.
In our efforts to have the mother OK
every household appreciate her influence
over her children we are apt to forget the
wife's influence over the husband. In
many households the influence upon the
husband is the only home influence. In
great multitude of the best and most inn
portant and most talented families OF the
earth there have been no descendants.
There is not child, or a grandchild, or
any remote descendant of Washington,
or Charles Sumner, or Shakespeare, or
Edmund Burke, or Pitt, or Lord Nelson,
or Cowper, or Pope, or Addison. or john
son, or Lord Chatham, or Grattan, or
Isaac Newton. or Goldsmith. or swirl or
Locke, or Gibbon, or Walpole. or Can
ming, Or Dryden, or Moore, or Chaucer, "r
Lord Byron, CT Walter Scott, or Oliver
Cromwell, or Garrick, Or Hogarth, or
Joshua Reynolds, or Spencer, or Lord
Bacon. or Macaulay. Muititudes OF
the finest families of the earth
are extinct. As though they had
done enough for the world by their geni-
US, or wit, or patriotism, or invention, or
conservation, God withdrew them In
multitudes Of cases all woman's oppor-
tunity for usefulness is with her cotemp-
oraries. How important that it bs an
improved opportunity!
While the French warriors on their
way to Rheims had about concluded TO
give up attacking the castle at Troyes be-
cause it was so heavily garrisoned, Joan
Of Arc entered the room and told them
they would be inside the castle in three
days.
1--WE would willingly wait six days."
said one of the leaders.
'Six :" she cried out; ''you shall be in
IL tomorrow" And, under her leader
shin. on the morrow they entered. On
smaller scale every man has garrisons to
subdue and obs tacles to level, and every
wife may be an inspired Joan OK Arc TO
her husb band.
What a noble, wifely ambition, the de-
termination, God helping, to accompany
her companion across the stormy sea Of
this life and together gain the wharf OF
the Celes tial City! Coax him along with
youi You can not drive him there. You
can not nag him there; but you can coax
him there. That is Gods plan. He coaxss
US all the way--coaxes US out OF our sins'
coaxes us to accept PARDON, coaxes us 70
Heaven. II we reach that blessed place
it will be through prolonged and divine
coaxing. By the same process take your
companion, and then you will get there -
we'll, and all your household. Do just the
opposite to your neighbor. Her wifeiy
ambition is all for this world, and dis
appointed and vexed and unhappy create
ure size will be all the way. Her resi-
dence may be better than yours for tho
few years of earthly stay, but she will
move out Of it as to her body into house
about five and one-half feet long ana
about three feet wide and two feet high,
and concerning her SOUPS destiny you can
make your own representation. 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 the soul. You
having had sanctified and d.
vinely ennobled wifely ambition, will pass
up into palaces, and what becomes OF your
body is of no Importance, for it is only
scaffOlding, pulled down now tnat your
temple is done. You will stand in she
everlasting rest and see your husband
come in, and see your children come in, u
they have not preceded you. Glorifisd
Christian 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 up all the scars OF your
earthly conflict
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