The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-13
JEZEBEL FOOD FOR DOGS.
THE BIBLICAL STORY OF A MELO-
DRAMATIC INCIDENT.

bition, Good and Bad"
BROOKLYN, Feb. 12.-ln the Tabernacle
this morning the Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage,
! ID, preached the fifth of his series of
Sermons to Women of America, with I'M
portant Hints for Men, The subject was
"Wifely Ambition, Good and Bad, v and the
text was from l. Kings, xxi Z: "Arise, and
eat bread and let thine heart be merry:
will give thee the vineyard of Naboth." DIR.
| 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 on ly
| get that fellow, Naboth, who owns that
| vineyard out there, to trade or sell, we
could make it kitchen garden for our
| palace"
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
modestY, and with very obsequious manner
| bows to the King.
The King says: "Naboth, | want to trade
vineyards with you l 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, win give you cash"
ooh, no." says Naboth, 81 cannot trade
off my little place, nor can sell it. 1t is
| the old homestead. | got it of my father
and he of his father, and l cannot let the
| old place 60 out of my hands"
In great state of petulancy King Ahab
| went into the house and flung himself on the
| bed and turned his face to the wall in a
great pout.
His wife Jezebel comes in and she says
''What is the matter with you? Are you
siokr'
"Oh" he says, Il feel very blue have
set my heart on getting that kitchen gar
| den and Naboth will neither trade or sell,
and to be defeated by common gardener
| is more than | can stand.n
ooh pshaw!" said Jezebel, don't go on
that way. Get up and eat your dinner and
stop moping. l will get for you that kitchen
| garden"
Then Jezebel borrowed her husbands sig
| net or seal, for then, as now in those lands,
kings never signed their names but had a
| ring with the royal name engraved on it,
and that impressed on a royal letter or
| document was the signature. She stamped
her husbands name on the 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 to the crown, and
so Jezebel got for her husband 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
| that will after awhile have a free banquet,
saying: "Where dogs lick the blood of
Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even
| thine"
And sure enough, three years after, Ahab,
| wounded in battle, his chariot dripping
with the carnage, dogs stood under it lap
ping his life's blood. And little afterward
| his wife, Jezebel, who had been his chief
| adviser in crime, stands at her palace win
dow and sees Jehu. the enemy, approach
ing to take possession Of the palace. And
| to make herself look as attractive as posi-
| BILE and queenly to the very last, she
| decorated her person and, according to the
| Oriental custom, closed her eyes and ran a
| brush, dipped in black powder, along the
long eyelashes, and then from the window
she glared her indignation upon Jehu.
| AS he rode to the gates in
his chariot he shouted to the
slaves in her room: 'Throw
her DOWN. But no doubt the slaves halted
q moment from such work of assassination,
yet. knowing Queen Jezebel could be no
| more to them and the conquerOr Jehu would
be everything, as he shouted again: Throw
her down." they seized her and bore her
struggling and cursing to the window case
ment and hurled her forth till she came
tumbling to the earth, striking it just in
time to let Jehu's horses trample her and
the chariot wheels roll over her. While
Jehu is inside at the table refreshing him
self after the excitement he orders his SER
wants to go out and bury the dead queen.
| But the wild street dogs had for the third
| time appeared on the scene, and they had
removed all her body except those parts
which in all ages dogs are by strange in
stinct or brutal superstition kept from
| touching after death-the palms of the
hands and the soles of the feet
All this appalling scene of ancient history
was the result of a wife's bad advice to a
| husband-of a wifes struggle to advance
| her husbands interests by unlawful means.
| Ahab and Jezebel got the kitchen garden Of
Naboth, but the dogs got them. The trou-
BILE all began when this mistaken wife
aroused her husband out Of his melancholy
by the words of the text: "Arise, and eat
bread and let thine heart be merry: l will
give thee the vineyard of Naboth."
The influence suggested by this subject is
| an influence you never before heard dis
| coursed on, and may never hear again, but
| a most potent and semi-omnipotent infu-
ence, and decides the course of individuals,
| families, nations, centuries and eternities.
| ! speak OF Wl1ely afnDlJlOn, BOOu ana Dau.
| How important that every wife have her
ambition, an elevated, righteous and divine
| ly approved ambition
And hSre let me say, what | am most
anxious for is that woman, not
waiting for the rights denied
her or postponed, promptly and decisively
employ the rights she already has in poses
sion. Some say she will be in fair way
to get all her rights when she gets the right
to the ballot-box ] wish that the expert
ment might be tried and settled. | would
like to see all women vote and then watch
the result. ] do not know that it would
change anything for the better. Most
wives and daughters and sisters would vote
as their husbands and fathers and brothers
voted Nearly all the families that ] know
are solidly Republican, or Democratic, or
Prohibition. Those families all voting
would make more votes but no difference
in the result Besides that, as now at the
| polls men are bought up by the thousands,
women would be bought up by the thou
sands. The more voters the more oppor-
tunity for political corruption. We have
several million more voters now than are
for public good.
We are told that female suffrage would
correct two eyils--the rum business and the
insufiiciency Of woman's wages. About the
rum business / have % say that multitudes
of women drink. and IL is no unusual thing
10 see them In the restaurants 80 Overpow-
cred with wine and beer that they can
hardly it up, while there are many so