The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-02-24
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
Sixth Sermon Of the Series to tho
Women of America.
Female Suffrage Not the Remedy ~
Drunkenness-Results Of Good and
Bad Advice From Wivoo
to Husbands.

In the sixth discourse OF his series 70
the Women Of America, delivered at
Brooklyn tabernacle. Rev, T. Dewitt Tai.
mage tool for his subjsct: "Wifsly Ambi.
tion, Good and Bad" His text was:
Arise, and eat bread. and let thine heart be
merry; will give thee the vineyard Of Naboth.
Il Kings. xxi. :.
DR.. Talmage said:
One day King Ahab. looking out Of the
window Of his palace at Jexreel said to
bis wife, Jezebel: ave ought to have these
royal gardens enlarged. II we could only
get that fellow, Naboth, who owns that
vineyard out there, to trade or sell, We
could make it q kitchen garden for our
palace"
"Fetch in Naboih," says the King to one
OF his servants.
The gardener. wondering why he should
he called into the presence of His Maj ssty,
comes in n little downcast in his modest
and with very obseQuious manner bows
to the King. The King says:
"Naboth, l want to trade vineyards
with you. l want yonr vineyard for a
kitchen garden, and l will give you q
great deal better vineyard in place Of it,
or, if you prefer money for it, / will give
you cash."
''Oh, no." says Naboth, 81 can not
trade off my little place, nor can sell it
1t is the old homestead. I got it of my
father, and he of his father. aud I can not
let the old place go out of my hands,"
In a great state of petulancy, King
Ahab went into the house and flung him
self on the bed, and turned his face to the
wall in great pout. His wife Jezebel
comes in and size says: "What is the ma t.
ter with you: Are you sick:"
"Oh," he says. ~ feel very blue. 81 have
set my heart on getting that kitchen gar
den, and Naboth will neither trade nor
sell. and to be defeated by a common gar.
dener is more than can stand"
'tOh, pshaw," says Jezebel, "don't go
on that way. Get up and eat your din.
ner and stop moping. will get for you
that kitchen garden"
Then Jezebel borrowed her husbands
signet or seal, for then, as now, in those
lands kings never signed their names. but
had q ring with the royal name engraved
on it, and that impressed on royal let.
ter or document was the signature. She
ShuuiPcu hcE uuSObNuS uuUuO Oh u
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 prop.
crty came to the Crown, and so Jez.bel
got for her husband and herself the
kitchen garden.
But while the wild street dogs were
rending the dead body of poor Naboth,
Elijah. the prophet, tells them OF other
CANNES that will after awhile have a free
banquet, saving: "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 carriage
dripping with the carnage, dogs stood
under it tapping his life's blood. And q
little afterward his wife, Jezebel, who had
been his chief adviser in crime, stands ut
her palace-window and sees Jehu, the
enemy, approach ng to take possession OF
the palace. And to make herself look as
attractive a. possible and queenly to the
very last. she decorated her person and
according to oriental custom closed her
eyes and ran a brush dipped in black
PO"uti oioh~ VIC ciosucS. tu5h
from the window she glared her indigna.
ton 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 as assassination, vet, knowing
Queen Jezebel could be no more to them
and the conqueror Jehu would be every
thing, as he shouted again:
"Throw her down." They seized her and
bore her struggling and cursing to the
window easement and hurled her forth
until she came :umbling to the earth,
striking it 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 excite
ment, he orders his servants to 90 ard
bury the dead Queen. But the wild street
dogs bad for the third time appeared on
the scene, and they had removed all her
body except those parts which in all ages
dogs are, by strange instinct or brutal
supe-s t;tion. kept from touching after
d sath-the palms Of the hands and soles
Of the feet.
Ali this appalling scene Of ancient his
tory was the result OF wife's bad I'D.
vice to a husband. of a wife's struggle
to advance her hu, bands interests by un.
lawful means. Ahab aud Jezebsl got the
kitchen garden of Naboth, but the dogs
got them. The trouble all began when
this 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 vine
yard of Naboth."
The influence suggested by this subject
is an influence you never before heard dis.
coursed on, and may never hear again. but
q most potent and semi omnipotent
influence, and decides the course OF indi.
viduals, families. nations centuries and
e.ernities. I speak OF wifely ambition,
go-d and bad. How important that every
wife have her ambition-an Elevated,
righteous and divinsly-approved ambi.
ton.
And he,e let me saw, what I am most
anxious Tor is that woman. not waiting
for the rights denied her or postponed,
promptly and decisively employ the
right, she already has in possession.
Some say she will be in fair way to get
all her rights when she gets the right to
the ballot.box. I wish that the experi-
ment might be tried and settled. I would
like to SEQ all women vote and then watch
the result. do not know that it would
change any thing for 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 Rspubl; can or
or Prob bitio1. Those families
all voting would make more votes, but no
difference III the result. Besides that, as
now at the polls men are bought up by
the thousands, women would b, bought
M BY the thcus ands. Tue more voters
the more opportunity for political corrup-
ton. We have several millions more
voters now than are for public good.
We are are tod that female suffrage