The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-02-16

Of dollars he would return to the
church and its services. Where is that
family today? CELEBRATED Although
in business for whieh he was
qualified. he undertook s. style of mer-
for which he had no qualifica-
ton and soon went into bankruptcy.
Els new style of business put him into
evil association. He lost his morals as
well as his money. He lroke up not
only his own home, but broke up another
mans home; and, from being a kind,
pure, generous, moral man as any of you
who sit here today has become home
less, pennies hbertine. His wife's am
bition for more genteel business de-
stroyed him and disgraced her, and
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 industry, hon
esty. common sense and faith in God
will put US. I am with you in all your
enterprises. I cannot be with you in
person as you go to your daily business,
but 1 will be with you in my prayers.
Let us see what we can achieve by hav-
ing 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 we
have calculated, you may always count
on two who arc going to help you,
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
REINFORCED, and inspired, and spurred on
by a woman's voice, as much as was
Barak by Deborah, when Sisera with nine
hundred iron chariots came on to crush
him and his army, and Deborah shouted
in the car of Barak: ''Up 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
ting along fast enough in the retreat, the
general jumped out and took it afoot,
and ran till he came TO place where a
woman first gave him a drink of milk
and then sent spike through his skull,
mailing Lin to the floor.
Some Of us could tell Of what influence
upon us has been wifely ambition con-
secratcd to righteousHo=S. AS my wife
is out of town and VIII not shake her
head because I ray it in public, I will
state that in my own professional life
have often been called of God, as /
thought. TO run into the very teeth Of
public c.iilion, and all outsiders with
whom l advised told mo l had better not,
it would ruin me ard ruin my church,
and at the same tiI.,e | was receiving
nice little letters threatening me with
dirk and pistol and poison if persisted
in attacking certain evils of the day,
until the commissioner of police con-
sidercd it his duty to take his place in our
Sabbath =crvices, with forty officers
scattered through the house for the
preservation of order; but in my
home there has always been one
voice to cay: tsGo ahead and diverge
not an inch from the straight line. Who
cares if only God is on our slider" And
though sometimes it seemed as if I was
going out against 500 iron chariots,
went ahead, cheered by the domestic
voice: ''Upl for this is the day in which
the Lord hath delivered Sisera into thine
hands,
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 hus-
bands to annex Naboth's vineyard tC
your palace of success, whether right OF
wrong, lest the dogs that come out to de
stroy Naboth come out also to devoul
you. Righteousness will pay best in life
will pay best in death, will pay best il
the Judgment, will pay best through al
eternity.
In our effort to have the mother o.
every household appreciate her influence
over her children, we are apt to forge
the wifc'' influence over the husband
In n.alsy households the influence upor
the hu.' and is the only home influence
III 4 great multitude of the best and mos
important and most talented families o
the earth, there have been no descend
ants. There is not a child or a grand
child Or any remote descendant of Wash
ington or Charles Sumner or Shakes
peare or Edmund Burke or Pitt o.
Lord Nelson or Cowper or Pope or Addi
son or johnson or Lord Chatham or Graf
tan or Isaac Newton or Goldsmith o.
Swift or Locke or Gibbon or Walpole o.
Canning or Dryden or More or Chauce1
or Lord Byron or Walter Scott or Olive
Cromwell or GarTicl1 or Hogarth o.
Joshua Reynolds or Spencer or Lord Ba
con or Macaulay. Multitudes of tn,
finest families of the earth are extinct
AS though they had done enough for the
world by their genius or wit or patriot
ism or invention or conservation, Coz
withdrew them. In multitudes of case
all woman's opportunity for usefulness
is with her contemporaries. How i'm
portant that it be an improved opportu
nifty!
While the French warriors, on thei
way to Rheims, had about concluded t,
give up attacking the castle at Troyes, be
cause it was so heavily garrisoned, Joal
of Arc entered the room and told then
they would be inside the castle in tire
days. eve would willingly wait si1
days" said one of the leaders. six !
she cried out, you shall be in it to-mor
row." and under her leadership on tn
morrow they entered. On a smalle
scale every man has garrisons to subdu
and obstacles to level, and every wifi
may be an inspired Joan Of Arc to he
husband.
What noble, wifely ambition, the de
termination. God helping. to accorupan..
her companion across the stormy sea o
this life and together gain the wharf o
the Celestial City! Coax him along witt
you! You cannot drive him there. Yo,
cannot nag him there; but you can Goa.
him there. That is Gods plan. II
coaxes us all the way-coaxes US out O
| our sins, coaxes us to accept pardon
| coaxes us to heaven If we reach tina
blessed place it will be through "a pro
longed and divine coaxing. By tn
same process take your companion. an
| then you will get there as well, and a
| your household. Do just the opposit
| TO your ncighbor Her wifely ambition
is all for tins world, .and a disappointe
and veNcd and unhappy creature she wi
be all the way Her residence may b
better than yours for the few years c
earthly stay. but she will move out of