The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-13

| attendance, saying after he had made
/ certain number of hundreds of thousands of
dollars he would return to the church
and its services. Where is that
family today Oblterated. Although
/ succeeding in business for which he was
qualified, he undertook n style of merchan-
disc for which he had no qualification, ard
soon went into bankruptcy, His new style
Of business put him into evil association
He lost his morals as well as his money. He
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 to-day, has become "a home
less, pennileSs libertine. His wifes ambi
tion fora more genteel business destroyed
him and disgraced her, and bhghted 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 actions: My
husband, our destinies are united let us sec
where industry, honesty, common sense and
| faith in God will put us. | am with you III
all your enterprises. | cannot be with you
| in person as you go to your daily business,
| but will be with you i'll my prayers Let
lis see what we can achieve by having God
in our hearts, and God in our lives, and God
in our homes. Be on the side of everything
good. Go ahead and do your best, and
though everything should turn out different
from what we have calculated, you may al
ways count on two who are going to
help you, and God is ono and |
am the other.n That man may
have feeble health, and may meet with
many obstacles and business trials, but
he is coming gloriously through, for he is
reinforced and inspired and spurred on by
a womans voice, as much as was Barak by
Deborah, when Sisera, with nine hundred
iron chariots, game on to crush him and his
army, and Deborah shouted in the ear of
Barak: "Upl for thisis the day in which the
Lord hath delivered Sisora into thine
hands, And the enemy fell back, and
Sisera's chariot not getting along fast
enough in the retreat the General jumped
out and took it afoot, and ran till he came
to a place where a women first gave him
drink of milk and then sent a spike through
his skull, mailing him to the floor
Some of us could tell of what influence
upon us has been a wifely ambition conse-
Grated to righteousness As my wife is out
of town and will not shake her head be-
cause | say it in public, | will state that in
my own professional life / have often been
called of God, as | thought, to run into the
very teeth of public opinion, and all out
siders with whom | advised, told me | had
better not, ii would ruin ME and ruin my
ing nice little letters threatening me with
dirk and pistol and poison if / persisted in
attacking certain evils of the day, until the
Commissioner of Police considered 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 home there has always been one voice to
say: SEQ ahead and diverge not an inch
| from the straight lire Who cares If only
God is on our side." And though some
times it seemed as if / was going out against
| nine hundred iron chariots, | went ahead
cheered by the domestic voice: up! 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- wives of America, swing your
sceptres of wifely influence for God and
good honest Do not urge your husbands
| to annex Naboth's vineyard to your palace
| of success, whether right or wrong, lest the
| dogs that come out to destroy Naboth come
out also to devour YOU Righteousness will
pay best in life, will pay best in death, will
| pay best in the judgment, will pay best
through all eternity.
In our effort to have the mother of every
| household appreciate her influence over her
| children we are apt to forget the wife's in
huence over the husband. In many house
holds the influence upon the husband is the
| only home influence. In great multitude
| of the best and most important and most
| talented families of the earth, there have
| been no descendants. There is not a child
or a grandchild or any remote descendant of
Washington, or Charles Summer or Shake
speare, or Edmund Burke, or Pitt, or Lord
Nelson, OF Cowper, or Pope, or Addison,
or johnson, or Lord Chatham, or Grat-
tan, or Isaac Newton, or Goldsmith, or
| Swift, or Locke, or Gibbon, or Walpole, or
Canning, or Dryden, or More or Chaucer,
or Lord Byron, or Walter Scott, or Oliver
Cromwell, or Garrick, or Hogarth, or
Joshua Reynolds, or Spencer, or Lord
Bacon, or Macaulay. Multitudes of the
finest families of the earth are extinct As
though they had done enough for the
world by their genius, or wit, or patriotism,
| or invention, or conservation, God with
drew them. In multitudes Of cases all
womap's opportunity for usefulness is with
her contemporaries 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 because it
was so heavily garrisoned, Joan of Arc en-
tered the room and told them they would be
inside the castle in three days. 1--WE would
willingly wait six days" said one of the
leaders. "Sixl" she cried out, ''you shall
be In it tomorrow" and under her leader
ship on the morrow they entered. On
subdue and obstacles to level, and every
wife may be an inspired Joan of Arc to her
husband.
What noble, wifely ambition, the de-
termination, God helping, to accompany
her companion across the stormy seas of
this lite, and together gain the wharf of
the Celestial City! Coax him along with
YOU. You can not drive 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. If we
reach that blessed place it will be through
a prolonged and divine coaxing. BY the
same process take your companion, and
then you will get there as well, and all your
household. Do just the opposite to your
neghbor. Her wifely ambition is all for
this world, and disappointed and vexed
and unhappy creature she will be all the
way Her residence may be better than
yours for the few years Of earthly stay,
but she will move out Of it as to her
body into a house about five
and half feet long and about three feet
wide and two feet high. and concerning her
souls destiny you can make your own prog
nostication. Her husband, and her sons
and daughters, who all, like her, live for
this world, will have about the same desti-
ny for the body and the soul. You having
had a sanctifed and diviuely ennobled wife
ly ambition, will pass up into palaces, and
what becomes of your body Is OF no impor-