Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-13

in what depth or on what height
he will after while be found l can
not even guess. The contest for social
position is the most unsatisfactory con-
test in all the world, because it is SO
uncertain about your getting II, and SO
insecure possession after you have OBJ
| tanned it, and so unsatisfactory even II
you keep it. The Whisk OF Iady's fan
! msy blow 1t out. The growl of one bear
or the believing of one bull on Wall
street may scatter it.
Is the wife's ambition the political
preferment of her husband2 Then that
will probably direct him. Whist
A oD-FoRsAKEN REALM
Is American politics, those best know
who have dabbled il them. After they
have assessed man who is candidate
for Office which he does not get, or as
sessed him for some Office attained, and
round md rou[d among the
drinking, smoking, swearing crowd
whe often get control Of
public affairs, all that is left of his SELF
respect or mo-al stamina would find
plenty Of room on geOuetrical point
which Is ssid to have neither length,
not been satisfied till her husband went
into politics, but would sfterWsrd have
given 81 she possessed to get him out.
knew highly moral man, useful in
the church and possessor Of a bright
home. He had useful and prosperous
business, but his wife did not think it
genteel enough. There were odors about
the business and sometimes they would
adhere to his garments when he returned
at night. Sac insisted on his doing
something more elegant, although he was
qualified for no business except that in
which ne was engaged. To please her he
changed his business and in order to get
on faster abandoned church attendance,
saying after he had made certain num-
Der OF hundreds OF thousands of dollars
he would return to the church and
its services. Where is that fam
fly today 0oliterated. Although
succeeding in business for which he was
qualified, he undertook style of mer-
chsndise for which he had no quslitcs-
ton, and soon went into bankruptcy.
His new style of business put him into
evil association. He lost his morals as
well IS 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 to-day, has become 8 homeless,
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 industry, honesty, common
sense and faith in God will put US.
am with you in all your
enterprises. cannot be with you In per-
son as youjgo to your dsily business. butt
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 every
thing good. Go ahead and
DO YOUR BEST,
and though everything should turn out
DIN 3rent from what we have calculated,
you may always count on two who are
gong to help you, and God is one and l
am tue other" That man may have fee
BILE health, and may meet with many OBJ
stacles aud business trials, but he is COM
ing glorieusly through, for he is REIN
forced, and inspired, and spurred on by
Woman's voice, as much SIS was B.rsk by
Deborah, when SiserS with 900 iron char
lots came on 10 crush him and his army,
and Deborah shouted in the ear of Barak:
"Up! for this is the day in which the
Lord hath delivered Sisera into
thine hands" And the enemy fell
back, and Sisers's chariot not getting
along fast enough in the retreat, the gen.
eral jumped out and took it afoot, and
ran till he came to place where woman
first gave him a drink OF milk and then
him to the floor. Some OF US could tell
of what influence upon US has been
Wifely ambition consecrsted to righteous
ness. AS my wife is out Of town and will
not shake her head because l say it in
public, will state that in my own pro-
fessional life have often been called OF
God, as thought, to run into the very
teeth OF public opinion, and all outsiders
with whom advised told me had better
not, it would ruin me and ruin my church,
and a. the same time WAS receiving nice
little letters threatening me with dirk and
pistol and poison il persisted in attack
ing certain evils of the day, until the COM
missioner Of police considered it his
duty to take his place in
our Sabbath services with forty
officers scattered through the house for
the preservation OF order; but in my
h me 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 side?" And though some
times it seemed as if 1 was going out
against nine hundred iron chEriots,
went ahead, cheered By the domestic
voice: Sup! for this is the day in which
the Lord hath delivered Sisers into thine
hands"
a man is no better than his wife viii
let him be. o wives of America, swing
your sceptres of Wifely influence for Sod
and good homes! Do not urge your
husbands to annex Naboth's vineyard to
sour palace of success, whether right or
wrong, lest the dogs that come out to de-
stroy kAboth come out also to devour
you. righteousness will pay best in life,
will pay best in death, will pay best in
the judgment, will pay best through all
eternity.
In our effort to have the mother
Of every household appreciate her
influence over her children we
sre apt to forget the Wife's influence over
the husband. In many households the in
6uauce unOn the husband ia