The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-02-14
TO THE WOMEN.
DR.. Talmage at the Tabernacle
Yesterday.
"WFELY AMBITION, GOOD AND BAD

BROOKLYN, February Especial. I'm the
Tabernacle this morning tie Rev. r. 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
"Wiiey Ambition, Good and Bad" and the
! text was from ] Kings. xxi, Z: "Arise, and
! cat bread, and let thine heart be merry: j will
give thee the vineyard Of Naboth." DR.. Tai
mage 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
| gar lens enlarged. If we could only get that
| follow, Naboth, who owns that vineyard out
| there, to trade or sell, VIC could make it o
kitchen garden for our palace
Fetch in Naboth," says tho king to ono of
| his servants.
The plain gardener, wondering why he
shoald be called into the presence Of his
ajcsty. comes in, little downcast in his
modesty aud with very obsequious manner,
bows to the king.
The king says; "Naboth, 1 want to trade
vineyards with you, ] want your vineyard
for . kitchen garden, and win give a or al
deal better vineyard in place OF it or, if you
prefer money for it, ] will give you cash"
"Oh, no, says Naboth II cannot trade off
my little place nor can | sell IL 1T is the old
homestead. ! got it Of my father and he of
his father, and cannot let the old place so
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 great
pout.
His wife, Jezebel, comes in and she says:
What is the matter with you? Are you
sick ?"
'Ol," he gays, 81 feel very blue have
set my heart on getting that kitchen garden,
and Naboth will neither trade or sell, and to
be defeated by common gardener IS more
than can stand.
'Oh, pShaw," says JeZebeI don't 90 on
that way Get up and eat your dinner and
stop moping. | will get for you that kitchen
garden"
Then .Iezebel borrowed her husbands sig
net or seal, for then, now in those lands
kings never signed their names, but had q
ring with tho royal name engraved on it, and
that impressed on royal letter or document
was the signature. She stamped her hus-
bands name en- 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 lie
was stoned to death and his property came to
the crown, and so JeZebel got for her husband
ami herself the kitchen garden.
But while the wild street dogs were rendng
the dead body OF poor Naboth Elijah, the pro
phct tells them of other CANNES that will
after awhile have free banquet, saying
"Wherc dogs lick the blood of Naboth Shall
dogs lick thy blood seven thine"
And sure enough, three years after Ahab
wounded in battle, his chariot dripping with
the carnage, dogs stood under it tapping his
lilo's blood And u little afterward his wife
,Jczcbel. who had been his chief adviser in
crime, stands at her palace window and sees
Jchu, the enemy, approaching to take possess
sion OF the palace. And to make herself look
As attractive as possible and quecnly to the
very last, She decorated her person and ac-
Cording to Oriental custom closed her eyes and
ran a brush dipped in black powder along
the long eye-lashes aud then from the window
She glarod her Indignation upon Jehu. As he
rode 10 the gates IN his chariot he shouted
! to the slaves in her room Throw
| her down!" But no doubt the slaves halted a
| moment from such work OF assassination vet,
| Knowing Queen Jezehel could be no more to
| them, and the conquerer, Jchu, would be
| everything, as he shouted again: Throw her
| down. they seized her and bore her struggling
! and cursing to the window easement and
! hurled her forth till she came tumblng to the
earth, striking it Just III time to let JehuS
| horse trample her and the chariot wheels roll
| over her While Jchu is inside at the table
| refreshing himself after the excitement ho
| orders his servants to go out and bury the dead
| queen. But the wild street dogs had, for the
third time, appeared the scene. and they
had removed all her body except those parts
which, in all ages, dogs are by strange in
stinct OF brutal superstition kept from touch
ing after death-the palms of the hands and
the solcs of the feet.
All this appalling scene of ancient history
was the result OF wife'S bad advice to a hus-
band, of wifes struggle to advance her huS-
bands interests by unlawful means Ahab
and Jezebel got the kitchen garden of Naboth
but tho dogs got them. The trouble all began
when this mistaken wife aroused her husband
ont 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 Ma
both"
The influence suggested by this subject is an
iaiiuence you nay r before heard discourSed on
and may never hear again. but most potent
! 1 l.
| the course of individuals. families, nations,
/ centuries aud eternticS. | speak of wifely
| ambition. good and bad. How important that
| every wife have her ambition. an elevated
| righteous and diYine'y-approvcd ambition
/ And here let me say, what | am most
! anxious for is that woman, not
! waiting for the rights denied
| her or postponed, promptly and dccjsiyelg
| employ the rights she already has in posses
! 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 experiment might
! De tried and settled. | would like 10 see all
/ the women vote and thon watch the result.
| do not know that 1t would change anything
! toy 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
/ democrats or prohibit Oh. Those families all
/ voting WoNld make moro votes, hui no differ
/ cnvc ~ the result. BESIDES that, rs now at
| the polls men are bought ny by the thousands
! women would be bought up by the thousands
/ Tho more voters the more opportunity for
/ political corruption. We have several million
| moro voters now than ave tov thu public
! good
We are told that tomato suffrage would cor
! rect two evils the rum business and tho In.
/ SuflciencY oi Womaus wages. Aoout The rum
! business Il have 80 say that nultitudys OF
/ women drink, and ii is no unusual thing 10
SEQ tAem IN The restaurants 50 oyorpoV cred
! with Wlue and beer that they can hardly sit
gs Ia ~