Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-02-13
A W1FE's AMBITION.
DR.. TALNAGBS SERMON 10 THE WOMEN
OF AMERICA.
Wifsly Anbiten, Good and Bad-fhs Wifs's Iuau.
sncs 0ysE Her Husband-No Man Better
Than His Wife VIII Let Him Be.
Womsns Greatest Power.
special rtleoram % tis Rectsn.

Tabernacle this morning the Rev. T. d.
Witt Talmage, DID,, preached the fifth o.
his series Of Sermons to Women ol
America, with Important Hints for Men. u
The subject was: "wifely Ambition, Good
and Bad, "and the text was from j Kings,
xxi. Z: Arise, and eat bread, and le,
thine heart be merry: will give thee the
vineyard Of Naboth." DR.. Talmage said
One day King Ahab, looking out of the
window Of his palace at Jezreel, said to
his wife Jezebel: "we ought TO have
these royal gardens enlarged. If we could
only get that fellow, Naboth, who owns
that vineyard ont there, to trade or sell,
We could make it kitchen garden for our
palace"
Fetch in Nsbotb," says the king to
one of his servants.
The plain gardener, wondering why he
should be called into the presence of his
majesty, comes in, q little downcast in his
modesty and with very obsequious manner
bows 10 the king.
The king says: "Naboth, l want to
trade vineyards with you. want your
vineyard for n kitchen garden, aud 1 will
give great deal better vineyard in place
of it, or, if You prefer money for it, will
give you CASH"
"Oh, no." says Naboth, Il cannot trade
off my little place, nor can l sell it. 1t is
the old homestead. l got it of my father
and he of his father, and l cannot let the
old place go out ofmy hands.
In a great state of petulancy King
Ahab went into the house and fiung him.
self on the bed and turned his face to the
wall in great pout.
His wife Jezsbel comes in and she says
What is the matter with you? Are you
sick?"
"Oh," he says, 81 feel very blue.
have set my heart on getting that kitchen
garden and Naboth will neither trade or
sell, and to be defeated by common gar.
dener is more than | can stand "
"Oh, pshaw," says Jezebel, don't &c
on that way. Get up and eat your dinner
and stop moping | will get for sou that
kitchen garden"
Then Jezebel borrowed her husband
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 royal letter
or document was the signature. She
stamped her husbands name on a ptocla,
nation which resulted in getting Naboth
tried for treason against the king, aud two
periured witnesses swore their souls away
with the life of Naboth, aud he was stoned
to death and his property came tn the
crown, and 30 Jezebel got for herself and
ber husband the kitchen garden.
But while the street dogs we're rending
the dead body Of poor Nahoth, Elijah, the
prophet, tells them of other CANNES that
will after while have free banquet, say
ing: "Where dogs
LICK THE BLOOD OF NABUIH
shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine"
"And sure enough, three years after
Ahab, wounded in battle, his chariot drip
ping with carnage, dogs stood under it lap
ping his life's blood. And little after,
ward his wife, Jezebel, who had been his
chief adviser in crime, stands at her palace
window and sees Jehu, the enemy, ap.
preaching 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 eyes and ran a
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 shout
ed to the slaves in her room: Throw
her down. But no doubt the slaves halt
ed moment from such work of assassina-
tion, yet, knowing Queen Jesebel could be
no more to thell and the conqueror 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 hurled her forth till
she came tumbling to the earth, striking it
lust in time to let Jehu's horses trample
her and the chariot wheels roll over her.
While Jehu is inside at the table refresh
ing himself after the excitement he orders
his servants to 90 out and bury the dead
Queen. But the wild street dogs hsd 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 n
strange instinct or brutal superstition kept
from touching after death-the palms Of
the hands and the soles of the feet.
The influence suggested by this subject
is an influence You never before heard dis
coursed on, and may never hear again, but
q most potent and semi-omnipotent infu-
euce, and decides the course of individu-
ais, families, nations, centuries and eter-
mites ] speak of
wIFELY AMBITION, GOOD AND BAD.
How important that every wife have her
ambition, an elevated, righteous and dir
vinely approved ambition.
And here let mesay, what / am most
anxious for is that woman, not waiting for
the rights denied her or postponed,
promptly and decisively employ the rights
she already has in possession. Some say
she will he in Q fair way, TO get all her
rights when she gets the right to the bal
lot box. I wish that the experiment
might be tried and settled. I would like
to see all women vote and then watch the
result.
We are told that female suffrage would
correct two eyils-the rum business and
the insuficiency Of woman's wages. About
the rum business 1 hsve to say that null
titudes Of women drink, and it is no
unusual thing to see them in the res
taurants 30 overpowered with wine and
beer that they can hardly sit up, while
there are many so-cslled respectable res
taurants where they can 90 and take their
champagne and hot toddy all alone.
Mighty temperance voters those women
would make! Besides that, the wives of
the rum-sellsrs would have to vote in the
interest of their husbands business, or
have time the inverse Of felicitous. Be-
side that, millions Of respectable and re
fined women in America would probably
not vote at all, because they do not want
to 60 to the polls, and, on the other hand,
womauly roughs would all 60 the polls,
and that might make woman's vote on tie
wrong side. There is not in my mind
much prospect of the expulsion of drunk
enness by female suffrage.
As to woman's wages to be corrected BY
woman's vote, / have not much faith in
Al