Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-17

respect or moral stamina would I'm,
plenty Of room on eeonetricaf poiH
which lie said to have neither length
breadth or thickness. Many q wife nsI
not been satisfied till her husband wen
into politics, but would afrerward hsy,
given all she possessed to get him out.
knew a highly moral man, useful Il
the church and possessor of q brigh
home. he had useful and prosperous
business, but his wife did not think II
genteel enough. There were doors nbou
the business and sometimes they yoult
adhere to his garments when he returned
at night. Sac insisted on his doipe
something more elegant, although he va!
| qualified for no business except that II
which he was engaged. To please her be
changed his business and In order 10 gel
on faster abandoned church attendance
saying after he had made certain mum
Der OF hundreds Of thousands Of dollars
he would return to the church and
its services. Where is that fam
fly to-day2 Oblitersted. Although
succeeding in business for which he was
qualified, ne undertook 8 style OF mer-
chandise for which he had no qusHaca.
ton, and soon went into bankruptcy.
His new style OF business put him into
evil association. He lost his morals IS
well as his money. He broke up not only
his OWN home, but broke up another
mans home, and from being kind, pure,
generous, moral man as any Of you who
sit here to-day, has become o homeless,
penniless libertine. His wiIe's ambition
for more genteel business destroyed
him, and disgraced her, and blighted their
only child.
But suppose now there be in our homes,
ss. 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 destlnies are united; let us
see where industry, honesty, common
sense and faith in God will put US.
am with you In all your
enterprises. 1 cannot be with you IN per
son as youlgo to your daily business, but
will be with you in my prayers. LIST US 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 every
thing good. Go ahead aud
DO YOUR BEST,
ard though everything should turn odt
direrent from what we have calculated,
you may always count on two who are
gong to help you, and God is one and l
am the other" That man may have fee
ole health, and may meet with many OBJ
stacles and business trials, but he is COM
ing glorieusly through, for he is REIN
forced, and inspired, and spurred on by
woman's voice, as much as was Bsrsk by
Deborah, when Sisera with 900 iron char
fc.kd go ,ot III
and Deborsh shouted in the ear Of BArak:
"Upl for this Is the day in which the
Lord hath delivered Sisera inta
thine hands" And the enemy fell
back, and Sisera's chariot not getting
along fast enough in the retreat, the gen.
eral jumped out ana took it afoot, and
ran till he came to place where woman
first gave him drink Of milk and then
sent spike Though his skull, mailing
MIN to the floor. Some of US could tell
Of Whist influence upon US has been ;
wifely ambition consecrAted to righteous
ness. AS my wife is out of town and will
not shake her head because I say 1t in
public, will state that In my own pro-
fsssional life have often been called OF
God, as thought, to run into the very
teeth OF public opinion, and sill outsiders
with whom advised told me had better
not, Il would ruin me snd ruin my church,
and at the same time was receiving nice
little letters threatening me with dirk and
pistol and poison II persisted in attack
ing certain evils of the day, until the COM
missioner 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
b me there hasAlwAys been one voice to
cay: "Go ahesd and diverge not an inch
from the straight line. Who cares if only
God is on our slider" And though some
times 1t seemed as II I was going out
sgainst nine hundred iron chariots, l
went ahead, cheered by the domestic
voice: Sup! for this is the day in which
the Lord hath delivered Sisers into thine
hands"
A man is no better than his wife will
let him be. o wives OF Americs, swing
your sceptres Of Wifely influence for God
and good homes 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 de-
stroy Nsboth 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 influence over
the husband. In many households the in
fuence upon the husband Is
THE ONLY HONE INFLUENCE.
10 great multitude OF the best and most
important and most talented families of
the earth there have been no descendants.
There is not child or grsndchild or
any remote descendant Of Washington or
Charles Sumner or Shakespeare or Ed
Cowper or Pope or Addison or johnson
or Lord Chatham or Grattsn or lease
Newton or Goldsmith or Swift or Locke
or Gibbon or Waipole or Canning or Dry
den or Moore or Chsucer or Lord Byron
or Walter Scott or Oliver Crom well or
Garrick or Hogsrth. or Joshua Reynolds
or Spencer or Lord Bscon 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 withd ew them. In
multit1des Of cases all women's oppor-
tunity for usefulness is with her contem-
poraries. How important that it be an
improved opportunity.
While the French warriors on their
way 10 Rheims hsd about concluded to
give up attacking the castle at Troyes be-
cause Ii was 50 heavily garrisoned, Joan