The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1888-02-24
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though every thing should turn out diff
ferent from what we have calculated, you
may always count on two who ara 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 glorious
ly through, for he is reinforced. and in
spireds and spurred on by woman's voice,
as much as was Barak by Deborah, when
Sisera with nine hundred iron chariots
came on to crush him and his army, and
Deborah shouted in the ear of Barak;
''Upi for this is the day in which the
Lord hath delivered Sisera into thine
hands," And the enemy fell back and
Sisera's chariot not getting along fast
enoughlinlthe retreat, the General jumped
out and took it afoot, and ran till he came
to place where q woman first gave him a
drink OF milk and then sent a spike
through his skull, mailing him TO the Eoor.
Some of us could toll of what influence
upon US has been q wifely ambition cone
secrated TO Righteousness. As my wife Ia
out of town and will not shake her head
because say it in public, will state that
in my own professional life have often
been called Of God, as / thought, Go run
into the very teeth OF public opinion, and
all outsiders with whom / advised told
me I had better not, it would ruin me and
ruin my church, and at the same time
was receiving nice little letters thre Rtan-
ing me with dirk and pistol and poison II
l persisted in attacking certain evils of
the day, until the commissioner of police
consid cred it his duty to take his place in
our Sabbath services with forty officers
scattered through the house for this
preservation of order, but In my home
there has always been one voice to says
"Go ahead, and diverge not an inch
from the straight line, Who cares II only
God is on our sideY"
And though sometimes it seemed as if
was going out against nine hundred iron
chariots, went ahead, cheered by the
domestic voice:
"Upl for this is the day I'm which the
Lord hath delivered Sisera Into thine
hands"
A man is no better than his wife viii let
him be. o wives of America, swing your
scepters Of wifely influence for God and
good honest Do not urge your husbands
to annex Naboth's vineyard to your pRl-
ace of success, whether right or wrong,
lest the dogs that O. - out to destroy Ma
both come out also TO devour you. Right
eousness will pay best in life, will pay
best in death, viii pay best In the tudg-
ment, will pay best through all eternity.
In our efforts to have the mother OF
every household appreciate her influence
over her children we are apt to forget the
wife's influence over the husband. In
many households the influence upon the
husband is the only home influence. In 3
great multitude of the best and most inn
portant and most talented families Of the
earth there have been no descendants.
There is not a child, or grandchild, or
any remote descendants of Washington,
or Charles Sumner, or Shakespeare, OF
Edmund Burke, or Pitt, or Lord Nelson.
or COwper, or Pope, or Addison, or ohm
son, or Lord Chatham, or Grattan, or
Isaac Newton, or Goldsmith, or Swift or
Locke, or Gibbon, or Walpole, or Cam
ming, or Dryden, or Moore, or Chaucsr, or
Lord Byron, or Walter Scott, or Oliver
Cromwell, or Garrick, or Hogarth, or
Joshua Reynolds, or Spencer, or Lord
Bacon. or Macaulay. MuItItudos Of
the finest families of the earth
are extinct. As though they had
done enough for the world by their geni-
us, or wit, or PATRIOTISM or invention, or
consecration, God withdrew them. In
multitudes Of cases all woman's oppor-
tunity for usefulness is with her cotemp-
oraries. How important that it be an
improved opportunity
While the French warriors on their
way to Rheims had about concluded TO
give up attacking the castle at Troyes be.
cause IL was so heavily garrisoned, Joan
Of Arc entered the room and told them
they would be inside the castle in three
days.
eve would willingly wait six days."
said one OF the leaders.
''Six!" she cried out; 'ayou shall be in
it tomorrow" And, under her leader
ship, on the morrow they entered. On q
smaller scale every man has garrisons to
subdue and obs tacles to level, and every
wife may be an inspired Joan of Arc to
her b us band.
What a noble, wifely ambition, the de-
her companion across the stormy sea OF
this life and together gain the wharf OF
the Celes tial Cityi Coax him along with
you'll You can not drive him there. You
can not nag him there; but you can coax
him there. That is Gods plan. He coaxes
US all the way--coaxes us out Of our sins.
coaxes us to accept pardon, coaxes us TO
Heaven. II we reach that blessed place
it will be through a prolonged and divine
coaxing. BY the same process tnks your
companion, and then you will get there as
well, and all your household. Do just the
opposite to your neighbOr. Hor wifely
ambition Is all for this world, and g. dis
appointed and vexed and unhappy creat-
ure size will be ali the way. Her rusi-
dence may DO better than yours for the
few years of earthly stay, but she will
move out Of it as to her body into "A houss
about five and one-haif feet long and
about three feet wide and two feet high,
and concerning her soul's destiny you can
make your own representation. Her
husband and her sons and daughters,
who all, like her, live for this world.
will have about the same destiny
for the body and the soul. You
having had sanctlfed and de
vinely ennobed wifely ambition, VIII pass
up into palaces, and what becomes Of your
body is of no Importance, for t s only q
scaffodIng, pulled down now That your
temple Is done. You viii stand in the
everlasting rest and see your husband
come in, and see your children come In, II
they have not preceded you. Glorihod
Christian wifei Pick mp any crown you
choose from of the Kings footstool and
wear it; It was promised you long ago,
and with it cover up all the scars Of your
earthly conflict.
Sixteen miles from st. Petersburg, Rus
sia, was one OF the royal palaces, and
there ono night Catherine, tho Empress,
entorta ined Prince Henry. IL was severe
winter and deep snow, and the Empress
and the Prince rode In a magnihceuco Of
sleigh and robe and canopy never sur-
p assed, followed by two Thousand sleighs
laden with tho first people OF Russia, the
whole length Of the distance illuminated
by lamps and dazzling temples bull for
that one night and limitations Of
mosques and Egyptian pyramids;
and people Of all nations I'm all
styles of costume standing on platforms
along tho way and watching the blaze of
the pyroteehnics. At the palace the luxe
uries Of Kingdoms were gathered and
spread, and at the tables the guests had
but 20 touch the center Of q plate, and by
magical machinery il dropped and an
other plate came up loaded with stiil
richer viands. But all that scene of
the long ago shall be oclipsed by
the greater splendors that win be
| gathered at the banquet made BY tho
l Heavenly King for those consecrated