The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-03-15
5TALNAGE'S SERMON.
Sixth Sermon of the Series to the
Women of America.
Female Suffrage Not the Remedy for
observation-disclosures of Good and
Bad Advice From Wives
to Husbands.

In the sixth discourse of his series to
the Women of America, delivered at
Brooklyn Tabernacle, Rev. T. Dewitt Tai |
mage took for his subject: "Wifely Ambi- |
ton, Good and Bad" His text was:
Arise, and eat bread, and let thine heart be
merry; will give thee the vineyard of Naboth
L Kings, xxi.
DR.. Talmage said:
One day King Ahab looking out Of the
window of his palace at JeZreel said to
his wife, Jezebel: ave ought to have these
royal gardens enlarged. If we could only
get that fellow, Naboth, who owns that
vineyard out there, to trade or sell, we
could make it kitchen garden for our
palace neg
"Fetch in Naboth," says the King to one
OF his servants.
The gardener, wondering why he should
be called into the presence of His Majesty,
comes in little downcast in his modesty
and with very obsequious manner bows
TO the King. The King says:
is'Naboth, i want to trade vineyards
with you. / want your whey ard for
kitchen garden, and l will give you
great deal better vineyard in place of it,
or, if you prefer money for it, l will give
you cash."
trade off my little place, nor can l sell it.
It is the old homestead l got it of my
father, and he of his father, and can not
let the old place go out of my hands,"
In 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 a great pout. His wife Jezebel
sacomes in end she says: sWhat is The mat
ter with you? Are you sick?"
.ssOh," he says, 81 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"
''Oh, 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 ring with the royal name engraved
on it, and that impressed on a royal let
ter or document was the signature. She
stamped her husbands name on a
proclamation, which resulted in getting
Naboth tried for treason against the
King, and two periured witnesses swore
their souls away with the life of Naboth.
and he was stoned to death and his prop-
erty came to the Crown, and so Jezsbel
got for her husband and herself the
kitchen garden. tseE Eef
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 free
banquet, saying: "Where dogs lick the
blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood
even thine" sssN4 ~ @ef
And sure enough, three years after,
Ahabswoanded in hattie, his carriage
dripping with the carnage, dogs stood
under 1t tapping his life's blood. And {
LITTLE afterward his wife, Jezebel, who had
been his chief adviser in crime, stands al
her palace-window and sees Jehu, the
enemy, approach ng to take possession o
the palace. And to make herself look al
ns attractive as possible and quesnly to the
very last, she decorated her per son and
according to oriental custom closed her
eyes and ran a, brush dipped in black
powder along the eyelashes. and Their
from the window she glared her indigna
ton uponsJehu. AS he rode to the gate
in his chariot he shouted to the slaves il
her room: "Throw her downw But NJ
doubt the slaves halted moment from
such work as assassination, yet, KNOWN,
Queen .Jezsbel could be no more to then
thing, as he shouted again:
''Throw her down" They seized her an,
bore her struggling and cursing to tn
window. easement and hurled her fort
until she came tum0ling to the earth
q striking 10 just in time to let Jehu's horse
trampfe her and the chariot wheels rol
over her. While Jehu is inside at til
as table Refreshing himself after the excite
.ment, he orders his servants to go an
bury the dead Queen. But the wild stree
dogs had for the third time appeared o
hsscene, and they had removed all be
body except those parts which in all age
dogs are, by a strange instinct or brur,
supers titon, kept from touching aftt
dsath--the palms of the hands and sole
OF the feet.
Ali this appalling scene Of ancient hi:
tory was the result of wife's bad ad
vice to a husband, of a wife's strugg
to advance her husbands interests by III
lawful means. Ahab and Jezebel got I'll
kitchen garden of Naboth, but the dog
rot them The trouble all began whe
this mistaken wife aroused her husban
ont OF hi $ melancholy by the words of I'll
text: i. arise aud eat bread, aud let thir
heartbe merry; i will give thee the vim
yard of Naboth."
sEFs The influence Suggested by this subie
is an influence You never before heard di
coursed on, and may never hear again, b.
most potent and semi omnipotel
- influence, and decides the course of ind
- yidaals families, nations. centuries al
= eternities. speak of wifely ambitio
god and bad. How important that eve,
wife have her ambition-an Eelevate
righteous and divinsiy- approved amb
ton. az~sls s3& +1.'s
We are are tod that female suffra,
would correct two evils-the rum busine
and the insufficiency of woman's wage
- About the rum business, have to s.
atmultitudes of women drink and it
Is no unusual thing to see them In q
restaurants SO overpowered with wi
and beer that they can hardly sit u
while there are many so-cailed respectful
restaurants where they can go and ia
their champagne and hot teddy all alor
Mighty temperance voters thoss WON
would makel Besides that, the wives