Sharp County record., 1888-03-22
TALl[AGE'S SERMON.
Sixth Sermon OF the Series TO the
Women OF America.
Female Suffrage Not the Remedy for
DrupI,.nness-Results of Good and
Bad Advice From wives
to Husbands.

tion. Good and Bad" His text was:
Arise and eat bread. and let thine heart De
merry: 1 will give thee the vineyard OF NaOo'n'
Il. Kings. xxi. T.
Dr.. TaImage said:
One day King Ahab looking out Of the
window of his palace at Jezreel' sald 10
his wife. Jezebel: "We ought to have these
roval gardens enlarged. II we could only
Get that fellow, Naboth, who owns thaV
vinevard out there, to trade or SELL we
corId make it a kitchen garden for our
palace --...,,
5sFetch in Naboth, says the King to one
Of his servants.
The gardener, wondering why he should
b6 called into the presence Of His MaJe8ty'
comes in a little downcast in his mode'ty
and with very obsequiou3 manner Do"S
"a the King. The King says;
"Naboth, l want to trade vineyards
With you. want your vineyard for
kitchen garden, and I will give you
great deal better vineyard in place Of it,
or, if you prefer money for it, l Will give
you cash"
"Ob. no." says Naboth, 81 can not
trade off my little place, nor can sell H.
Il is the old homestead. 1 got it OF my
father, and he of his father and can not
et the old place go out of my hands
in a great state of petuIancy, King
Abab went into the house and flung him
self on the bed, and turned his face to the
wall in a great pOut. His wife JezeOei
comes in and she says: "What is the mat
ter with you? Are you 5ck?"
"Oh," he says, 81 feel very blue. VI have
set nv heart on getting that kitchen gar
den. and Naboth will neither trade nor
sell. and to be defeated by common gar
dener is more than I can stand"
ooh, pshaw," says Jezobel, don't go
on that way. Get up and eat your din
ner and stop moping. will get for you
that kitchen gardon."
Then Jezabel borrowed her husbands
signet or seal, for then, as now, in those
lands kings never signed their names, but
had a ring with the royal name engraved
on il, and that impressed on a royal Iet-
ter or document was the signature She
stamped her husbands name on
proclamation, which resulted in getting
Naboth tried for treason against the
King, and two perjured witnesses swore
their souls away with the life of NabOth,
and he was stoned to death and his prop
ertv came to the Crown, and so Jezebel
cot for her husband and herself the
kitchen garden.
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 a free
banquet, saving: "Where dogs lick the
blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood,
even thine"
And sure enough, three years after,
Ahab wounded in battle, his carriage
aripping with the carnage, dogs stood
under it tapping his life's blood. And
little afterward his wife, Jezebel, who had
been his chief adviser in crime, stands at
her palace-window and sees Jehu, the
enemy, approach ng to take possession OF
the palace. And to make herself look as
attractive as possible and queenly to the
very last. she decorated her person and
according to oriental custom closed her
ewes and ran a brush dipped in black
powder along the eyelashes, and then
from the window she glared her indigna-
tion upon Jehu. As he rode to the gates
in his chariot he shouted to the slaves in
her room: "Throw her dOwnW But no
doubt the slaves halted n moment from
such work as assassination, vet, knowing
Queen Jezebel could be no more to them
and the conqueror Jehu would be every
thing, as he shouted again:
"Throw her down." They seized her and
bore her struggling and cursing to the
window easement and hurled her forth
until she came tumbling to the earth,
striking it just in time to let Jehu's horses
trample her and the chariot wheels roll
over her. While Jehu is inside at the
table refreshing himself after the excite
ment, he orders his servants to go and
bury the dead Queen. But the wild street
dogs had for the third time appeared on
the scene, and they had removed all her
body except those parts which in all ages
dogs are, by a strange instinct or brutal
supers t;tion, kept from touching after
daath-the rains of the hands and soles
of the feet
Ali this appalling scene of ancient his
tory was the result Of a wife's bad ad-
vice to a husband, Of a wife's struggle
to advance her husbands interests by un-
lawful means. Ahab and Jezab9l got the
kitchen garden of Nabolh, but the dogs
got them. The trouble all began when
this mist akon wife aroused her husband
out of Ei Is melancholy by the words Of the
text: arise and eat bread, and let thine
heart be merry; l will give thee the vine
yard Of Naboth."
The influence suggested by this subject
is an influence yOu never before heard dis
coursed on, and may never hear again, but
a most potent and semi -Omnipotent
influence, and decides the course of indi-
viduals families, nations, centuries and
eternties. l speak Of wifely ambition,
20 d and bad. How important that every
wife have her ambition-an Elevated,
righteous and divinely- ambi-
tiOn.
We are are tod that female suffrage
would correct two evilS-the rum business
and the insufFiciency of woman's wages.
About the rum business, have to say
that multitudes Of women drink and it is
no unusual thing to see them in the
res taurants so overpowered with wine
and beer that they can hardly sit up,
VIII lie there are many so.called respectable
restaurants where they can go and take
their champagne and hot toddy all alone.
Mighty temperance voters thOsl women
would makel Besides that, the wives Of
the rum-seIers would have to vote in the
interest OF their husbands business, or