Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1888-02-22
Was|y AnHGsa--H,.! al! Bad
AN APPALLING SCENE THE RESULT
OF WIFE'S BAD ADVICE
TO HER HUSBAND.
WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
NO ONE CAN so INSPIRE a MAN
TO NOBLE PURPOSE As
A NOBLE WOMAN.
DIR. TA1MAcE's SERMON SUNDAY, FEB. 18TH.

@BRooKLYN, February 12.-ln the Taber-
nacle this morning the Rev. T. Dewitt Tai
mage, DID,, preached the fifth Of his series
of SSermons to Women of America, with
Important Hints of Men," The subject was:
ssWifely Ambition, Good and Bad" and
TNhe text was from I. Kings, xxi. z:
i "Arise, and eat bread. and let thine
heart be merry; 1 will give thee the vine
ward of Naboth." DR.. Talmage said
One day King Ahab, looking out of the
window of his palace at Jezreel, said to his
wife Jezebel: 1--WE ought to have these
royal gardens enlarged If we could only
get that fellow Naboth who owns that vine
ward out there to trade or sell, we could
make it kitchen garden for our palace.H
'Fetch in Naboth, says the King to one
Of his servants.
The plain gardener, wondering why he
should be called into the presence OF his
majesty, comes in, little downcast in his
modesty and with very obsequions manner
bows to the King.
The King says: "Naboth, want to trade
vineyards with you. want your vineyard
for a kitchen garden, and will give great
deal better vineyard in place Of it, or, if you
prefer money for it, will give you cash. ;,
sOh, no." says Naboth, 81 cannot trade OH
nv little place, nor can l sell it. 1t is the old
Homestead. got it of my father and
l1he of his father, and cannot let the old
place 90 out of my hands"
In great state of petulancy King Ahab
went into the house and flung himself or
the bed and turned his face to the wall in
great pout.
His wife, Jezebel comes in and she says
"What is the matter with your Are yot
sick ?''
"Oh," he says, "I feel very blue. l have
set my heort on getting that kitchen gardeI
and Naboth will neither trade or sell, ano
to bo defeated by a common gardener Ii
more than l can stand"
"Oh, pshaw," says Jezebel, "don't go OF
that way. Get up and eat your dinner ant
stop moping. l will get for you that kitch
en- garden -,
Then Jexebel borrowed her husbands
signet or seal, for then, as now, in those
lands kings lever signed their names, bu
had q ring with the royal name
Tngraved on it, and that impressed on s
Eroyal letter or document was the sigma
ture. She stamped her husbands name
on proclamation which resulted in getting
Naboth tried for treason against the King
and two perjured witnesses swore their souls
away with the life of Naboth, and he was
stoned to death and his property came tt
the crown, and so Jszebel got for her hus
band and herself the kitchen garden.
But while the wild street dogs were rend
ing the dead body of poor Naboth, Elijah
the prophet, tells them of other CANNES thai
will after a while have free banquet, say.
ing: "Where dogs lick the blood of Nabotf
shall dogs lick thy blood, even tbine.''
And sure enough, three years after, Ahab
wounded in battle, his chariot dripping witt
the carnage, dogs stood under it tapping
his life's blood. And little afterwaid hii
wife, Jezebel, who had been his chief ad
visor in crime, stands at her palace win
dow and sees Jehu, the enemy, ap
preaching to take possession of the
IDalace. And to make herself lock as at
| i tractive as possible and queenly to tht
very last, she decorated her person, anc
according to Oriental custom closed her eyei
and ran brush dipped in a blacl, powder
along the long eyelashes, and then from the
window she glared her Indignation upor
Jehu. As he rode to the gates in his chariot
he shouted to the slaves in her room:-
sThrow her down p But no doubt the
slaves halted a moment from such work Of
assassination, yet, knowing Queen Jezebe
could be no more to them and the conquerol
Jehu would be everything, as he shouted
again: "Throw her down." they seized hel
and bore her struggling and cursing to the
window easement and hurled her forth til
she came tumbling to the earth, striking il
| Just in time TO let Jehu's horses tramplt
her and the chariot wheels roll over her
While Jehu is inside at the table refresh
ing himself after the excitement h'
INrders his servants to 60 out and bury
IOthe dead Queen. But the wild stree
dogs had for the third time appeared OF
the scene, and they had removed all hel
body except those parts which in all age'
dogs are by a strange instinct or bruta
superstition kept from touching after dealt
the palms Of the hands and the soles o
the feet
All this appalling scene of ancient histor.
was the result of wife's had advice to
husband, of wife's struggle to advance he
husbands interests by unlawful means.-
Ahab and Jezebel got the kitchen garden o
Naboth, but the dogs got them. The trou
BILE all began when this mistaken wifi
aroused her husband out of his melanchol,
by the words of the text: "Arise and ca
bread and let thine heart be merry; will
rive thee the vineyard of Naboth."
The influence suggested by this subjec
is an influence you never before heard dis
coursed on and may never hear again, bu
Ia most potent and semi-omnipotent indu