Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-02-13

through woman suffrage, yet like expert
ments, and some of my friends in whost
Judgment have confidence are so certain
! that alienation would come by such pro.
cess that would, il l had the power, pu,
in every woman's hand the vote. / can,
not ses what right you have to make q
woman pay taxes on her property to help
support city, State and national govern.
ment, and yet deny her the opportunity oi
helping decide who shall be Mayor,
Governor or President. But let every
wife, not waiting for the vote she may
never get, or, getting it, find it outbal-
anced by some other vote not fit to be cast,
arise now in the might of the eternal God
and WELD the power of q sanctified wifely
ambition for good approximatiug the in
finite.
No one can 80 inspire q man to noble
purposes as noble woman, and no one 80
thoroughly degrade man as a wife Of un-
worthy tendencies While in my text we
have illustration of wifely ambition en-
ployed 10 the wrong direction, society and
history are full Of instances Of wifely ambi-
tion gloriously triumphant in right direc-
tions
De Tocqueville, whose writings will be
potential and quoted While the world iasts,
ascribed his successes to his wife and says
'Of all the blessings which God has given
q me
THE GREATEST OF ALL
in my eyes is to have lighted on Msris
Motley" Martin Luther says OF his wife:
~ would not exchange my poverty with
her for all the riches of CIesus without
her," Isabella Of Spain by her superior
faith in Columbus put into the hand Of
Ferdinand, her husband, America. John
Adams, President OF the United States,
said of his wife: ''She never by word or
look discouraged me from running all
hszards for the salvation of my country g
liberties" Thomas Carlyle spent the last
twenty years of his life in trying by lis
pen TO atone for the fact that during his
wite's life he never appreciated he. .iIfu.
ence on his career and destiny. Alas! that
having taken her from a beautiful home
and q brilliant career, he should have
buried her Ia the home OF q recluse and
scolded her in such language as only dys-
peptic genius could manage, until one day
while in her invalidism riding in Hyde
Park, her pet dog got run over, and under
the excitement the coachman found her
dead. Then the literary giant woke from
his conjugal injustice and wrote the la
mentations of Craigen-Puttock and Cheyne
Row. The elegant and fulsome epitaphs
that husbands put upon their wives tomb.
stones are often an attempt to make up for
lack Of appreciative words that should
have been uttered in the ears Of the living
A whole Greenwood of monumental in
scriptiOus will not do wife so much good
after she has quit the world as one plain
sentence like that which Tom Hood wrote
to his living wife when lie said: 81 never
was anything till knew you."
o, woman, what is your wiiey ambi-
tion, nUble, or ignoble? Is il high social
position? That will then probably direct
your husband, and LIE will climb and
scramble and slip and fall and rise and
tumble, and on what level or in what depth
or on what height he will after while be
found, l cannot even guess The contest
for social position ia the
MOST UNSATISFACTORY CONTEST
in all the world, because il is go uncertain
about your getting it, and so insecure a
possession after you have obtained ii, and
so unsatisfactory even if you keepit The
whisk of a lady's hand may blow it out
The growl OF ono bear or the believing OF
one hull on Wall street may scatter it,
knew highly moral man, useful in the
church and possesser OF bright bone He
had useful and prosperous business, but
his wife did not think il genteel enough
There were odors about the business and
sometimes they would adhere to his gar
ments when he returned at night. She
insisted on his doing something more elG-
CANT although he was qualified for no bust
ness except that in which he was engaged.
To please her he changed his business, and
in order to get on faster abandoned church
attendance, saying after he had made a
certain number of hundreds OF thousands
of dollars he would return 70 the church
and its services. Where is that family to-
day? Obliteratei. Although succeeding
in business for which he was qualified, he
undertook style Of merchandise for which
he had no qualification, and soon went in
to bankruptcy. His new style Of business
put him into evil association. He lost his
morals az we'll as his money. He broke up
not only bis own home but broke up an
other mans home and from being kind,
pure; generous, moral man as any of you
who sit here to-day, has become home
less, penniless libertine. His wife's ambi-
tion for more genteel business destroyed
him, and disgraced her, and blighted their
only child
Bot suppose now there be in our homes,
as thauk God there are in hundreds of
homes here represented, on the wifeiy
throne one who says cot 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 person as you go to your
daily business, but
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 ything good. Go
ahead and do your best, and though every
thing should turn out different from what
we have calculated, you may always count
on two who are going to help you, and
God is one, and am the other" That
man may have feeble health, and may
meet with many obstacles and business
trials, but he Is coming gloriously through,
for he is reinforced, and inspired,
and spurred on by woman's
voice, as much as was Barak by Deborah,
when Sisera with nine hundred iron chari-
OTIS came on to 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. l"
And tho enemy fell back and Sisera's char
lot net getting along fast enough in the
retreat, the general jumped out and took
it afoot, and ran till he came to place
where a woman first gave him drink Of
milk and then sent spike through bis
skull, mailing him to the floor.
A man ia no better than his wife will
let him be. O wives Of America, swing
your sceptres Of wifely influence for
God and good homesl Do not urge your
husbands to annex Naboth's vineyard to
your palace Of success, whether right or
wrong, lest the dogs that come out TO
destroy Naboth come out also TO devour
you. Righteousness will pay best in life,
will pay best in death, will pay best in the