The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-02-16
WIFELY AMBITION.
DR.. TALMAGE's SIXTH SERMON TO
THE WOMEN OF AMERICA.


~ 5ezebeI and Ahab and Give Not Bad
advice to Your Husbands.
BRooKLYE, Feb. 12.-In the Taber-
nacle this morning the Rev. T. Dewitt
Talnage, D. D., preached the sixth OF his
series of Sermons to women of America.
with important hints for men. The
subject was '.Wifelv Ambition, Good
and Bad" and the text was from l
Kings. xxi, :: ''Arise, and eat bread. and
let thine heart be merry: I will give thee
the vineyard of Naboth.' DR.. Talnlage
said:
One day King Ahab, looking out Of the
window Of his palace at Jazreel, said to
his wife Jezebei: eve 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 a kitchen garden
for our palace.
Fetch in Naboth,' says the king to
one of his servants.
Tho plain gardener, wondering why
lie 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: ''Naboth, want to
lTtltit N1IChttEu With YOU. L Nc;I!t your
vineyard fer a kitchen garden, and I
in place of it, or, if you prefer money for
it. VIII give you cash.
'.Oh, no., says Naboth. II cannot
trade OFF my little place, nor can | sell it.
1t is the old homestead. got it of my
father and of his father, and l cannot
let the old &c go 1nt of my hands.
In a great state ST 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 Jczebel comes in and she
says: What is the matter with you?
Are you siclz?'
ooh, he says. 4 feel very blue. l
| have set my heart ON getting that kitchen
garden, and Naboth viii neither trade or
sell, and to be defeated by common
gardener is more than l can stand.
"Oh. rshaw," says Jezebel don't go
on that way. Get up and eat your dim
Ecr and stop mcping. l will get for you
| that kitchen garden.
Then Jezebcl borrowed her husbands
signct 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 inn Tessed on royal let
| ter or G, cuInent wa, the signature She
stamped her husbands name on a proc
| lama.iciI which resulted in getting Ma
| both tried for treason against the king,
and two perjured witnesses swore their
| souls away with tie life of Naboth. and
| he WAS stored to death and his property
came to tLe crown. and so Jezebel got
for her husband and herself the kitchen
| garden.
But while the wild street dogs were
rendin~ the dead body of Door Naboth
/ Elijah, the prophet tells them of other
CANNES that viii after while have a
| free banquet, saying: ''Where dogs lick
the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy
blood, even thine
And, sure enough, three years after,
! Ahab, wounded i'll battle, his chariot
| dripping with the carnage, dogs stood
under it tapping his Gfe's blood. And a
| little afterward his wife. Jezebel, who
| had been his chief adviser in crime,
! ;tands at her palace window and sees
.Fehu, the enemy, approaching to take
possession OF the palace. And, to make
1cIself look as attractive us possible and
| 3Ieenly to the very last, she decorated
| Ger person, AID, according to Oriental
| custom, closed her eyes and ran a brush
dipped il Lack powder along the long
| cyelashes, and then from the window
the glared her Indignation upon Jchu.
| As he rode to the gates i'll his chariot he
shouted to the slaves III her room: Throw
| h"r down." But 10 doubt the slaves
| halted 4 moment from such work of as
sassination yet, knowing Queen Jezebel
could l1 no iaare to them and the con-
| Queror Ieitu woEld 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 GARTH 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 HIM
self after the excitement he orders his
servants to go out 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 III all ages dogs are by
4 strange instinct or brutal superstition
| Kept from touching after death-the
palms of the hands and the soleS of the
feet.
/ All this appalling scene of ancient his
tory was the result Of q wifc's bad adj
| vice to a husband. Ct q wife's struggle to
advance hyr husbands interests ~ I'M
lawful means. Allah a!.d Jlztbcl got
| the Lit; l1l garden CT N;.bolh, Lut the
do@s g.: ;heEl. Tie troui = Ill began
wien us !.c:; V. IT, ;.I,.i;-o. her hus-
band out C i..,s III, .,,.cI2Oiy TX tie words
! of the text: .'Arise. and eat b-,..i /, and
let thine heart be merry: viii give thee
the vineyard of Naboth.''
The influence suggested by this subject
| is an influence you never before heard
| discoursed on, and may never hear again,
| h,1f
Influence, and decides the course Of indi-
viduals, families, nations, centuries and
eternities l speak of wifely ambition,
| good and bad. How important that
I every wife have her ambition, an ele-
waited, righteous and divinely approved
| ambition
And here let me say 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 N posse sion. Some say
she will be in fair way to get all her
rights when she gets the right to the
ballot box. 1 wish that the experiment
might be tried and settled. would like
to see all women vote and then watch
| the result. I 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 all the families
that 1 know are solidly Republican OF
Democratic or Prohibition. Those fa1ni
lies all voting would make more vote
but no difference in the result. Beside
that, as now at the polls men are bough
up by the thousands, women would b
bought up by the thousands. The NOR
voters the more opportunity for politica
corruption. We have several million
more voters now than are for public good