The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1888-02-23
WIFELY AMBITION.
Or. TALMAGE'S SIXTH SERMON TO
THE WOMEN OF AMERICA.

Advice to Your Husbands.
BROOKLYN, Feb 12.-In the Tabcr-
naclc this morning the Rev. 7. Dewitt
T4lnlage, D. D., preached the sixth of his
with important hints for men," The
subicct was: "Wifely Ambition, Good
ard Bad and the text was from I
Kings, xxi, 7: Arise, and eat bread, and
let thine heart be merry: / will give thee
tho vineyard Of Naboth." DR.. TaImage
said:
One day ling Ahab looking out Of the
window Cf his palace at Jazreel, said to
his wife Jezebel: I'VE ought to have
these royal gardens enlarged. If We
could Only get that fellow, Naboth, who
OWES that vineyard out there, to trade or
sell. we could make it kitchen garden
for cur palace"
..Fetch in Naboth,' says the king to
c. g Of lis servants.
The Plain gardener, wondering why
lie shauld be called into the presence cf
LIS nla aicsty, comes in. a little downcast
III lis modcsty and with very obscquious
nl~Hr.er bows TO the king.
The king says: ''Naboth, l want to
trade vineyards with you. l want your
vineyard for a kitchen garden. and 1
VIII give a great deal better vineyard
III place of it, or, if you prefer money for
Il. l VIII give YOU cash"
oh. no. says Nuboth, 81 cannot
trade oil my little place, nor can 1 sell it.
It. is the Oh homestead. got it Of my
father and he of IS father, and cannot
let the old place so out Of my hands
In q great state Of petulancy King
Ah::b went into the house and f;lnS him
self ou the bed and turned his face to the
wall in 4 great pout.
His wife JeZchel GENES il a,:d she
says: What is INC E!.,ltt~I w..n YOU!
Are you sick:'
Oh he says, 81 feel very blue.
have set my heart Oh getting Chat kitchen
garden. and Naboth Will neither trade or
sell. and TO be defeated by Il common
gardener il more than can stard'
'Oh. pshaw," says Jczebcl, don't go
on that way. Get up and cat your din
rcr and stop lAeping. will get for you
thit kitchen garden
Thcn Jczcbcl borrowed her husband $
siSnct or seal, for then, as now. i'll those
lan,.s kings never signed their names, but
laG Il ring with the royal name engraved
on It, and that impressed on a royal let
ter or document was the signature. She
stamped her husband' s Hanlc Oil a proc
| lamation which resulted in getting Ma
10th tried for treason against the king,
and two pcrjured witnesses sworc Their
souls away with the life of Naboth, and
| l.e was stoned to death and his property
carnc to the crown. and so Jczebcl cot
for her husband and herself the kitchen
| garden.
But while the wild street dogs were
re,lding tie dead 1odv Of poor Nabotl,
| Elijah, the prophet, tells them Of other
CANNES that will after while have 4
| free banquet, saving: Where dogs lick
the Hood 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 tapping his Gfe's blood. And q
little afterward his wife, Jezcbcl, who
had been his chief adviser in crime,
stands at her palace window and secs
Jrhu, the cncrny, approaching to take
B>'SN"'i"AA Va SAiS Pt'A~N\e" -AilN4, ~ 44l<iIAN
herself look rs attractive as possible a!lG
Quccnly to the very last, she decorated
her person, and, according to Orienta
custom. closed her eyes and ran 4 ljr,n>t
dipped in LACK powder along the Ions
ercIashcs, and then from the window
re glared her indignation upon JChu
As he rode to the gates III his chariot ht
shouted 10 the slaves in her room: Throw
h'r down" But 10 doubt the slave.
hated 4 moment from such work Cf IS
sassination, yet, knowing Queen Jczcbe
could be no moro to them and the con
qnerOr Jchu would be everything, rs l..
shouted again: Throw her down,
they seized her and bore her strucglins
and Curslng to the window easement, ant
hurled her forth till she came tumblin.
TO tao earth, striking it just III time I,
let Jchu's horses trample her and III
chariot wheels roll over her. Will
JCilu Is inside at the table refreshing him
scf after the excitement he orders hi
servants 10 go ont and bury the dea,
queen. But the wild street dogs had fo
the third time appeared on the scene, an,
they had removed all her body exccp
those parts which III all ages dogs are l.,
! - iiiSlllCl OF SUPERSTITION
kept from touching after dcaih-th
palms cf the hands and the solcs Of tn
feet
All this appalling scene Of ancient his
tory was the result Of wifcs bad al
vice TO husband. Of wifes struggle {
advance her husbands interests by un
lawful means. Ahab and JCzcbcl &C
the kitchen garden Of NaLoth, but III
dogs got them. The trouble all besa1
I when this mistaken wife aroused her hus
band out of his melancholy by the word
of the text: Arise. and eat bread, an
let thine heart be merry I will give tie
tie vineyard of Naboth.''
The influence suggested BY this subiec
is al Influence you never before hear
discoursed on, and may never hear again
but most potent and scmi-onnipoteI
Influence. and decides the course of in,li
viduals, families. nations, centuries an
etern!ties. speak of wifely ambition
good and lad. u0w important tlla
every wife have her ambition, an elk
waited, righteous and divincly approve
ambition.
And here let me say what a,n mos
anxious for is that woman. not waitir
: for the rights denied her or postpone,
promptly and dCcisiyelv employ tho ri.rh+