The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-02-23
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
subjects Wifcly Ambition,
q Odand Bad"

TEXT: Arise and eat bread, ana let thine
heart be merry. ItciH give thee the vineyard
Of Naboth."-I Kings, xxi, Z.
One day King Ahab, looking out Of the
window Of his palace at Jezreel, said to his
wife Jezebel: "We ought to have these royal
gardens enlarged. II we could only get that
fellow Naboth, who owns that vineyard out
there, to trade OF sell We could make ID
kitchen garden for our palace
Fetch In Naboth, said 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 obsequious manner
bows to the King.
The King XII says: a s., "NaIboth, want to trade
for kitchen garden, and will give great
deal better vineyard in place of it, or, il you
prefer money for it. / will give you cash.
"Oh, no. says Naboth, 81 cannot trade Off
my little place, nor can sell it, It Is the old
homestead. got it of my father and he Of
his father, and cannot let the old place go
out of my hands,"
In a 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
sick'"
"Oh,n he says, II feel very blue have
set my heart on getting that kitchen garden
and Naboth Will neither trade nor sell, and to
be defeated by common gardener is more
than I can stand"
"Oh, pshaw,n says Jezebel, don't go on
that way. Get up and eat your dinner and
stop pm moPpins' will get for you that kitchen
Then Jezebel borrowed her husbands sgnet
ring 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 roval letter or docu-
ment was the signature. 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 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 while have free banquet, say
ing: 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, dog sstood under it tapping his
Jezebel, who had been his chief adviser in
crime, stands at her palace window and sees
Jehu, the enemy, approaching to take posses
sion of the palace And to make herself look
as attractive as possible and queenly to the
very last, she decorated her person and, ac-
cording to Oriental custom, closed her eyes
aud ran brush dipped in the black powder
along the long eyelashes, and then from the
window she gared 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 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 cursng to the
window easement and hurled her forth till
she came tumbling to the earth, striking iC
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 himself
after the excitement he orders his servants to
60 out and bury the dead queen. But the
wild street dogs had for the third time ap-
peared on the scene, and they removed all her
body except those parts which in all ages
dogs are by strange instinct or brutal su-
perst1tlon kept from touching after death
the palms Of the hands and the soles of the
feet
All this appalling scene of ancient his jorv
was the result of wife's bad advice to hus-
band OF wife's struggle to advance her
husbands interests by unlawful means
Ahab and Jezebel got the kitchen garden of
Nabooh, but the dogs got them. The trouble
oil hegan when the 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; will give thee
the vineyard Of Nabothn
Tn, influence suggested by this subject is
| ar ipA lnr.
coursed on and may never hear again, but a
most potent and semi-omnipotent influence
and decides the course of individuals fami
lies. nations, centuries and eternities
speak of wifely ambition, good and bad.
How important that every wife have her
ambition an elevated righteous and divinely
approved ambition.
And here let me say, that what am most
anxious for is that woman, not waiting fol-
the rights denied her or postponed promptly
and d cisively employ the rights she already
has in possession. Some says she will be in 8
fair way to get all rights when she gets the
right to the ballot box. | wish that the ex
would like to see all women vote
and then wat h the result. de
not know that it would change
anything for the better. Most wives anc
daughters and sisters would vote as thei
husbands and fathers AMI brothers voted
Nearly all the families that l know are sol
idly Republican or Democratic or Prohibi
tion. Those families all voting would maxi
more votes, but no difference in the result
Besides that, as now at the poles men ar,
bought up by the thousands, women woult
be bought up by the thousands. The NOR
voters, the more opportunity for politica
corruption. We have several million NOR
voters now than are for public good
We are told that female suffrage woult
correct two evils-the rum business and tn
insuliciency of woman's wages. About til,
rum lu sness have to say that multitude
of women drink, and it is no unusual thin:
to see them in the restaurants SO oyerpow
cred with wine and beer that they cal
hardly sit up, while there are many 81
called respectable restaurants where they cal
go and take their champagne and hot todd,
oil alone. Mighty temperance voters thos
women would make Besides that, tn
. | wives of the rum sellers would have to yot
in the interests of Their husbands business, O
have time the inverse OF felicitious. Be
sides that, millions of respectable and re
fined women in American would no
vote at all, because they did not care t.
60 to the polls, and on the other hand
womanly roughs would all go to the polls
. and that might make more woman's vote O
the wrong side. There is not, in my mind
much prospect of the expulsion Of drunken
ness by female suffrage.
As to woman's wages to be corrected b.
woman's vote, have not much faith in thai
Women are har3er on women than men are
Masculine employers are mean enough Il
<reatment Of women, but If you want to he's
!. beating down of prices and wages in perres
!, tion, listen how some women treat washer
women and dressmakers and female servaut
. Mrs. Shylock is more merciless than Nj
:. Shylock Women, / fear, will never &,
: righteous wages through woman's vote, an
as to unfortunate womanhood, woman al
far more cruel and unforgiving than me
are. After q woman has made shipwreok
her character men generally drop her, b.
women do not so much drop her as hurl HI
! with the force of a catapult clear out ar
y of and down and under.
I have not much faith that women w
6 ever get merciful consideration and iusti
. through woman suffrage, vet l like expel
:, ments. and some of my friends in whose iud
! ment have confidence are SO certain that
deviation would come by such process that
4 would. if / had the power, put in evel
3 womanis hand the vote. l cannot see wa
J. right you have to make a woman ps
> taxes on her property to help support cit
}. State and national government, and yet deI
!. her the opportunity of helping to decide vi
shall be mayor, governor or president. b
let every wife, not waiting for the vote s.
may never get, or. getting it, find it oItb;
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