The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-13

while he found i cannot even guess. Inc
contest for social position is the most un-
contest in all the world, be-
cause il is so uncertain about your getting
it, and so insecure possession after you
have obtained IL, and 80 unsatisfactory
even il you keep IL. The whisk Of lady's
fan may blow Il out. The growl OF one
bear or the believing Of one bull on Wall
street may scatter it,
Is the wife's ambition the political
preferment OF her husband? Then that
will probably direct him. What God
forsaken realm is American politics those
best know who have dabbled in them.
After they have assessed man who is Il
candidate for Office which he does not get,
or assessed him for some office attained,
and he has been whirled round and round
and round and round among the drinking,
smoking, swearing crowd who often get
control OF public affairs, all that is left OF
his self-respect or moral stamina would
find plenty Of room on geometrical point,
which is said 10 have neither length,
breadth or thickness. Many wife has
not been satisfied till her husband went
into politics, but would afterward have
given all she possessed to get him out
/ knew highly moral man, useful in
the church and possessor OF a bright home.
He had useful and prosperous business,
but his wife did not think 1t genteel
enough. There were odors about his busi-
ness, and sometimes they would adhere TO
his garments when he returned at night
She insisted on his doing something more
elegant, although he was qualified for no
business except that in which he was en-
gagged. To please her he changed his bus
iness, and in order TO get on faster aband-
oned church attendance, saying after he
had made q certain number OF hundreds
OF thousands OF dollars he would return 10
the church and its services. Where Is
that family today? 0blilcrated. Although
succeeding in business for which he was
qualified, he undertook style OF merchan-
disc for which he had no qualification, and
soon went into bankruptcy. His new style
of business put him into evil association.
lie lost his morals rs well rs his money.
lie broke up not only his own home, but
broke up another mans home, and from
being a kind, pure, generous, moral man
as any OF you who sit here today, has be-
come n homeless, penniless liberiine. His
wife's ambition for q moro gcnteel bust.
blighted their only child.
But suppose now there be In our homes
as thank God there are in hundreds o.
homes here represented, ON the wiielS
throne one who says not only by her words
but more powerfully by her acllons IN,
husband, our destinies are united; let NJ
see where industry, honesty, common
sense and faith in God will put us. am
with YOU in all your enterprises. Icanno
be with you in person ~ you 90 10 YOU
daily business, but ] will be with you il
my prayers. Let MS see what We caI
achieve by having God in our hearts, an,
God in our lives, and God in our homes
BE on tho side OF everything good. q
ahead and do your best, and though every
thing should turn out different from wba
We have calculated, you may always coun
on two who are going TO help YOU, and Go
| is one and | am the other" That maj
may have feeble health, and may NEE
with many obstacles and business trials
but he Is coming gloriously through, for h
is reinforced, and inspired, and spurrcd o
| by n woman's voice, ~ much as was Bara
| by Deborah when Siscra with 900 irol
chariots came on 10 crush him and hi
army, and Deborah shouted In the ear o
Barak: "Upl for this Is the day In whicl
the Lord bath delivered Siscra into thin
hands" And the enemy fell back, AM
Siscra's chariot not getting along fas
enough in the retreat, the general jumpe,
out and took Il aioot, and ran 10 plac
where n woman first gave him a drink Q
milk and then sent a spike through hi
skull, mailing him 10 the iloor.
Some Of us could tell Of what innucnc
upon MS has been a wiiely ambition consc
Grated 10 righteousness. As my wife
out Of town and will not shake her hcal
because | say Il In public | will state tina
in my own professional life | have oitcl
been called Of God, as | thought, TO ruI
into the very teeth Of public opinion, an,
all outsiders with whom ! advised told IN
| had better not, Il would ruin me an
ruin my church, and nj the same time
was receiving nico little letters threaienin
me with dirk and pistol and poison II
persisted In attacking certain evils OF th
day, until the commissioner OF police COZ
sidorcd Il his duty 10 take his place In ou
Sabbath service with forty officers sea
tered through the house for the prcscryl
ton Of order; but In my home there la
always boen one voice 10 say: 'Go ahea
and divergc not one inch from the siraigl
line. Who cares II only God IA on OF
side7" And though sometimes II SCENE
as II ! was going out against ~
iron chariois, | went ahead, chccred Il
the domestic voice: "Upl for this II ii
day In which tho Lord hath deliver,
Sisera into thine hands
A man IA no better than his wife will !
| IL. -. N .nt.saa -
scepter Of wiiely influence for God Al
good homesl DO not urge your husban'
10 annex Naboih's vineyard 10 your pala
Of success; whether right or wrong, lest Il
dogs that come out TO destroy Nabo
come out also 10 destroy you. Righteou
ness will pay best In life, viii pay best
the Judgment will pay best through l
eternity.
In our effort 10 have the mother OF eve
household appreciate her influence oy
her children, we are apt 10 forget. q
wife's influence over the husband.
many households the influence upon u
husband Is only homo influence. In
great multitude OF the best and most II
portant and most talented families Of d
earth, there have been no descendant
There Is not n child or n grandchild or nj
remote descendant oi Washington,
/, Charles Sumner, or Shakespeare, or Il
mund Burke, or Pitt, or Lord Nelson,
Cowpcr, or Pope, or Addison, or Johnso
or Lord Chatham, or Grattan, or lsa
Newton, or Goldsmith, or Swift, or Loci
or Gibbon, or Walpole, or Canning,
) Dryden, or More, or Chaucer. or 10
Byron, or Walter Hcoit, or Oliver Crol
well, or GarTick, or llogarih, or Josh
. REYNOLDS, or Spencer, or LORD Bacon,
I Macaulev. Multitudcs OF the finest fau