Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-13
No One Can so Inspire a Man to
Noble Purposes as Noble
Woman.
And no One Can so Thoroughly Degrade
a Kan as a Wife of Unworthy
Tendencies.
s1oisiy and History ars Full of Instances
Of Wlfely Ambition In th- Right DirEc-
ton GIOTou,ly Triumphant.
sptclal to the Gazette.

VIII IRlmaSei u. u preached Tie NTH
Of his series of sermons to Women Of
America, with Important Hints for Men"
The subject WAS: "Wifely Ambition,
Good and Bad" and the text was from
Kings, xxi, Z: ga rise, ami eat bread,
and let thine heart be merry: will give
thee the vineyard of Naboth." DR.. Tai
mage said:
One day King Ahsb, looking out of the
window Of MS palace st Jezreel, said to
his wife Jtz9bel: "We ought to have
these royal gardens enlarged. If we
could only get that fellow Raboth, who
owns that vineyard out there, to trade or
sell, we could make it kitchen garden
for our palace"
"Fetch in Esboth," says The King to
one Of his servants.
The plain gardener, wondering why he
should be called into the presence of his
msj2sty, comes in, little downcast in
his modestY and with very obsequioUs
manner bows to the King.
The King says: "Nsboth, l want to
trade vineyards with you. want your
vineyard for kitchen garden, and l will
give s great deal better vineyard in place
of 1t or, if you prefer money for it, will
give you cash"
ooh, no;" Gays Nsboth, 'I cannot trade
of my little place, nor can sell it. Il is
the old homestead. got it of my father
and he Of his father, and l cannot let the
old place go out OF my h2nds."
Ia great state Of petulancy King Ahab
went into the house and flung himself oa
the bed and tUrned his face to the wall in
d great pout.
His wife, Jszebel, comes in and she
says: "What is the matter with your
Are you sick?"
"0h," he says, 81 feel very blue. Il
have set my heart on getting that kitchen
garden and NAoOth will neither trade nor
sell and to be defeated by a common gar
dener is more than can stand"
son, pshsW!" says JeZebel, "don't 90
on thsS wsy. Get up and eat your dinner
and stop moping. will get for you that
kitchen garden"
Then Jezeoel borrowed her husbands
slgDet 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 8 royal letter
or document was the signature. She
stamped her husbands name on procla-
nation, which resulted in getting Naboth
TRIED FOR TREASON
against the king and two psTiured wit
nesses sWore their souls away with the
life of Haboth and he was stoned to
death and his property came to the
crowHS and so Jez9bel got for her hus-
band andshsrseh 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 while have free
banquet, saying: "Where dogs lick the
blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood,
even thine"
Aud sure enough, three years after,
Ahab, wounded In battle, his chariot
dripping with the carnage, dogs stood
under it tapping his Efe's blood. And a
little atterWsrd his wife, Jezebel, who
had been his chief adviser in crime,
stands at her palace window and sees
Jehu, the enemy, approaching 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 Gus |
tom closed her eyes and ran brush |
dipped in black powder along the long
eye-lashes, and then from the window
she glAred her Indignation upon Jehu. AS |
he rode to the gates in his chariot he |
shouted to the slaves in her room: "ThroW |
ner down." But no doubt the slaves |
halted momsnr from such work Of as
sassinstion, yet, knowing Queen Jezebel
could be no more TO them and the con- |
querer Jehu would be everything, as he |
shouted again: Throw her down." they |
seized her and bore her struggling and |
Cursing to the window easement and hurl- |
ed her forth till she came tumbling to the
earth, striking it Just in time to lie Jshu's
roll over her. While Jehu is inside at the
table refreshing himself after the excite
ment he orders mis- servants to go out and
bury the dead queen. But the wild street
dogs had for the third time appeared on
the scene, snd they had removed all her
body except those parts which in all ages
dogs are by q strange instinct or brutal
superstition kent from touching after
de2lh-the palms OF the hands and the
soles OF the feet.
ALL THIS APPALLING SCENE
of ancient history WAS the result of
Wife's bad advice TO husband, of Tife's
struggle to advance her husbands inter-
ests by unlawful means. Ahso and Jeze-
bel got the kitchen garden of Naboth, but
the dogs got them. The trouble sll be-
gan when this mistaken wife aroused her
husband out of his melancholy By the
text: "Arise, and eat bread. and let
thine heart he merry; will give thee the
vineyard OF Nabolh" The influence sug-
gested by this subject is an influence you
never before heard discoursed on and may
never hear again, but most potent and
mi-omnipotent Influence, and decides
the course Of individuals, families, ms
lions, centuries and eternities. 1 speak
of wlfsly ambition, good and bad. How
important that every wife have her smbi-
ton, an elevated, righteous aud diVinelY-
approved ambition. And here let me say,
what am most anxious for is that wo-
man, not waiting for the rights denied
her or postponed, promptly and decisively
employ the rights she already has in
Possession. Some say she will be in fair
way to get all her rights when she gets
tde right to the ballot-box. 1 wish that
the experiment. might be tried and set
tied. l would like TO see sill women vote
and then watch the result. l do not
know that it would change anything for
the better. Most wives and daughters
and sisters would vote as their husbands
and fathers and brothers voted. Nearly
81 the families that know are solidly
Republican or Democratic OF Prohibition.
Those families all voting would make