The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-03-15

ices. Where is that family to-day?
Obliterated. Although succeed ing in BUSH
ness for which he was qualified, he under
took style of merchandise for which he
had no qualification, and soon went into
His new style OF business
put him into evil association. He lost his
morals as we'll as his money. He broke
up not only his own home, but broke up
another mans home, and from being
kind, pure, generous, moral man as any
of you who sit here to-day, has become q
homeless, penniless lbertine His wife's
ambition for more genteel business de-
stroyed him and disgraced her, and
blighted their only child.
But suppose now there be in our homes,
as, thank God, there are in hundreds of
homes here represented, on the wifely /
throne one who says not only by her |
words, but more powerfully by her &C |
tionst
"My husband, our destinies are united; |
let US see where industry, honesty, COM
mon sense and faith in God will put us. I
am with you in all your enterprises. I
can not 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 bv having God in our hearts
and God in our lives and God in our
homes. Be on the side of every thing
good. Go ahead and do your best, and
though every thing should turn out diff
ferent 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 glorious.
lv through, for he is reinforced, and in.
spired, 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:
cup! 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
enoughlinithe retreat, the General jumped
out and took it afoot, and ran till he came
to place where woman first gave him
drink of milk and then sent spike
through his skull, mailing him to the floor.
Some of us could tell OF what influence
upon US has been a wifely ambition con-
secrated to righteousness. AS my wife is
out of town and will not shake her head
because I say it in public, will state that
in my own professional life | have often
been called of God, as I thought, to run
| into the very teeth of public opinion, and
all outsiders with whom l advised told
| me had better not it would ruin me and
| ruin my church, and at the same time I
| was receiving nice little letters threaten
| ing me with dirk and pistol and poison il
| 1 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 the
preservation of order, but in my homo
there has always been one voice to say:
"Go ahead and diverge not an inch
from the straight line, Who cares il only
God is ON our slider"
| And though sometimes it seemed as if I
was going out against nine hundred iron
| chariots, went ahead, cheered by the
domestic voice:
"Upl for this is the day in which the
Lord hath delivered Sisera into thine
| hands"
A man is no better than his wife will 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 pail
ace of success, whether right or wrong,
lest the dogs that come out to destroy Ma.
both come out also to devour you. Right.
eousness will pay best in life, will pay
best in death, will pay best in the jud g
ment, will pay best through all eternity
What a noble, wifely ambition, the de-
termination, God helping, to accompany
her companion across the stormy sea O
this life and together gain the wharf oil
the Celes tial City! Coax him along will
you! You can not drive him there Yor
} can not nag him there; but you can coax
him there. That is Gods plan. He coaxe
US all the way-coaxes US out Of our sins
, coaxes US to accept pardon, coaxes us Il
Heaven. If we reach that blessed plac
it will be through prolonged and divin
coaxing. By the same process take you
, companion, and then you will get there a
} well, and all your household. Do just th'
opposite to your neighbor. Her wifel,
} ambition is all for this world, and dis
. appointed and vexed and unhappy Great
ure size will be all the way. Her resi-
dence may be better than yours for til
3 few years of earthly stay, but she vii
S move out of it as to her body into a hous
about five and one-half feet long an
9 about three feet wide and two feet high
and concerning her souls destiny you ca
I make your own representation. He
husband and her sons and daughters
o who all, like her, live for this worlt
S will have about the same destin
q for the body and the soul. Yo
g having had sanctified and d
V vineIy ennobled wifely ambition, will pas
up into palaces, and what becomes of yor
body is of no Importance, for it is only
i scaffo'ding, pulled down now that yo,
t temple is done. You will stand in I'll
q everlasting rest and see your husban
d come in, and see your children come in,
t they have not preceded you. Glorifie
+ Christian wifel Pick up any crown yo
n choose from off the Kings footstool an
$ wear it; it was promised you long ag
8 and with it cover up all the scars of yol
Il earthly conflict.
= Sixteen miles from st. Petersburg, Ru
o STA, was one of the royal palaces, ar
g there one night Catherine, the Empires
entertained Prince Henry. 1t was seve
II winter and deep snow, and the Empire
and the Prince rode in magnifcence
= sleigh and robe and canopy never su
IL passed, followed by two thousand sleig
r laden with the first people of Russia, ii
Ia 4 ,ho1o 1or 81 ha I;e{nn tan /.