Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-17
HIFHLY AMBITION.
No 0ae Can so Inspire a Man to
Noble Purposes as a Noble
Woman.
And no One Can so Thoroughly Degrade
aMan as q Wife Of Unworthy
Tendencies.
Society and History are Full OF Instances
Of TTifely Ambition in the Right Direo-
ton Gloriously triumphant
Special to the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette.
BRooKLYN, N. Y, Feb. 12.-In the
Tabernacle this morning the Rev. T. De-
Witt Talmsge, D. D., preached the ftth
Of his series of "Sermons to Women of
Americs, with Important Hints for Men,"
The subject was: "Wifely Ambition,
Good and Bad" aud the text WAS from
I Kings, xxi, Z: "Arise, and eat bread,
snd let thine heart be merry: will give
thee the vineyard Of EAboth." DR.. Tai
mage said:
Oae dsy King Ahab, looking out Of the
window OF his palace at Jezreel, said to
his wife Jtzsbel: "We 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 1t q kitchen garden
for our palace"
"Fetch in Naboth," says the King to
one Of his servants.
The plain gardener, wondering why he
should be called into the presence Of his
msjesty, comes in, 8 little doWncast In
his modestY and 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, aud I will
give great deal better vineyard in place
of it or, If you prefer money for 1t, Will
give you cash."
"Oh, NOS" says Naboth, "I cannot trade
Of my little place, nor can sell it. It is
the old homestead. got 1t of my father
and he Of his father, and cannot let the
old place 60 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
g crest pout.
His wife, Jezebel, comes in and she
says: "What Is the matter with you?
Are you sickp",
"Oh," he says, 81 feel very blue. 1
have set my heart on getting that kitchen
garden and Naboth will neither trade nor
sell sud to be defeated by a common gar
dener Is more than can stand"
"Oh, pshaw ]" says Jezebel, "don't go
on that way. Get up and eat your dinner
and stop moping. 1 will get for you that
kitchen garden"
| Then JeZeoel borrowed her husbands
signet or Seal. for then, as now, In those
lands kings never signed their names but
had ng with the royal name engraved
Oh it and thst impressed on q royal lie ter
or document was the signature. She
stamped her husbands name on procIa
nation, which resulted in getting Hsboth
TRIED FOR TREASON
against the King aud two peIlured wit
nesses swore their souls away with the
life of Eaboth and he was stoned to
death and his property came to the
crown, and so Jezebel got for her hus-
band and herself the kitchen garden.
Bot while the wild street dogs were
rending the dead body Of poor Nabotb,
Elijah, the prophet, tells them of other
CANNES that will after a while have free
banquet, sayings "Where dogs lick the
blood Of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood,
even taine.n
And sure enough, three years after,
Ahao, wounded in battle, his chariot
dripping with the carnage, dogs stood
under 1t tapping his iife's blood. And
little afterW ward his wife, Jezsbel, who
had been his chief adviser In crime,
stands at her palace window and sees
Jeha, the enemy, approaching to take
possession OF the palace. And to make
herself look as attractive as possible and
queenly to the very last, she decorated
hsr persoa and according to Oriental Gus
tom closed her eyes and ran brush
dipped in q black powder along the long
sye-lashes, and then from the window
she glsred her indignation upon Jehu. As
he rode to the gates In his chariot he
shouted to the slaves in her room: "Throw
her dewn!n But no doubt the slaves
halted 9 moment from such work OF as
ssssinstion, yet, knowing Queen Jezsbel
could be no more to them and the con-
querer Jehu would be everything, as he
shouted again: "Throw her down." they
seized her and bore her struggling and
curssng to the window easement and hurl-
ed her forth till she came tumbling to the
eartk, striking itjust in time to lie Jshu's
horses trample her and the chariot wheels
roll ever her. While Jehu is inside at the
table refreshing himself after the excite
ment'he orders his servants to go out and
bury the dead queen. But the Wild street
dogs had for the third time appeared on
the scene, and they had removed sill her
body except those parts which In oil ages
dogs are by strange instinct or brutal
superstition kept from touching after
death--the pslms of the hands and the
soles Of the feet.
ALL THIS APPALLING SCENE
Of ancient history was the result Of
wife's bad advice to husband, of q Fife's
struggle to advance her husbands inter-
ests by unlawful means. Ahab and JeEe-
bel got the kitchen garden Of Nsboth, but
the dogs got them. The trouble ell BE-
gan when this mistaken wife aroused her
husband out Of his melancholy by the
text: SsArise, and est bread, and let
thine heart be merry; i will give thee the
vineyard Of Naboth," The influence sag
gested by this subjectd Is an influence you
never before heard discoursed on and may
never hear again, but most potent and
semi-omnspotent influence, and decides
The course q individuEis, families, ma
tions, cent1ries and etesnities. l speak
of wifely sm 1ition, gooG,and bad. How
important thst every wife have her smbi-
ton, an elevated, righteous aud divinelY-
approved ambition. Aud here let me say, |
what am most snxious fSr Is that wo-
nan, not waiting for the rights denied |
her or postponed promptly and decisively
employ the rights she eiready has In |
possession. Some say she will be In fair
veg to get all her rights when she gets |
the right to the bAiiot-box. wish that |
the experiment. Dight be tried and set
tied I would like to see all women vote |
aud then watch the result. do not |
know that 1t would change anything for |
the better. Most wives and daughters |
and sisters would vote as their husbands
and fathers and brotaers voted. Nearly |
all the families that I know are solidly |
Republican or Democratic or Prohibition.