The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1888-02-23


aUpi for this is the day IN which the
Lord hath delivered Sisera into thine
hands" And tie ensmy fell back aud
Sisera's chariot no getting along fast
euouqhtin the retreat, the General Jumped
ont and took 1t afoet, aud ran till he came
toa place whore a woman FIRST gave bin
drink of milk and then sent spike
through his skull, mailing him to the floor.
Some of us could tell OF what influences
upon us has been wifely ambition con.
secrated TO Righteousness. As my wife is
out of town and viii not shake her head
because / say it in public, will state that
in my own professional life have often
been called of God as | thought, to run
into the very teeth OF public opinion, and
all outsiders with whom / advised told
me had better not, il would ruin me and
ruin my church, and ut the same tins
was receiving nice little letters threaten
ing me with dirk aud pistol aud poison IL
I persisted in attacking certain evils OF
the day, until the commits ;ioner OF police
consid cred it his duty to take his placs In
our Sabbath services with forty officers
scattered through the house for the
preservation of order, but in my homo
there has always been one voice to say:
"Go ahead, and divergs not an inch
from the straight line, Who cares IL only
God is on our slider"
And though sometimes it seemed as IL
was going out against nine hundred iron
chariots, went ahead, cheered by the
domestic voice:
tUpi for this Is the day in which the
Lord hath delivered Sisera into thine
hands"
A man is no better than his wife will let
e. L..
scepters of wifsly influence for God and
good honest Do not urge your husbands
to annex Naboth's vineyard to your pail
ace of success, whether right or wrong,
lest the dogs that come out to destroy Ma
both come out also to devour you. Right
eousness will pay best in life, will pay
best in death, will paw best in the judg-
ment, will pay best through all eternity.
In our efforts to have the mother of
every household appreciate her influence
over her children we are apt to forget tn 9
wife,s influence over the husband. In
many households the influence upon the
husband is the only home influence. In .
great multitude of the best and most inn
portant and most talented families of the
earth there have been no descendants.
There is not child or a grandchid, or
any remote descendant of Washington,
or Charles Sumner. or Shakespeare, or
Edmund Burke, or Pitt, or Lord Nelson,
or Cowper, or Pope, or Addison, or john
son, or Lord Chatham, or Grattan, or
Isaac Newton. or Goldsmith, or Swift, or
Locke, or Gibbon, or Walpoie, or Can.
ming, or Dryden, or Moore, or Chaucsr, or
Lord Byron, or Walter Scott, or Oliver
Cromwell, or Garrick, or Hogarth, or
Joshua Reynolds, or Spencer. or Lord
Bacon. or Macaulay. Murtudes OF
the finest families of the earth
are extinct. AS though they had
done enough for the world by their gent
us, or wit, or patriotism, or invention, or
conservation, God withdrew them. In
multitudes OF cases all woman's oppor-
tunty for usefulness is with her cotemp-
oraries How important that it bo an
improved opportunity
While the French warriors on theiI
way to Rheims had about concluded t.
give up attacking the castle at Troyes b.
cause it was so heavily garrisoned, Joan
of Arc entered the room and told then
they would be inside the castle in three
days.
owe would willingly wait six days."
said one of the leaders.
"Sixl" she cried out; "you shall be in
IL tomorrow" Aud, under her leader
ship, on the morrow thew entered. On a
smaller scale every man has garrisons to
subdue and obs tacles to level, and every
wife may be an inspired Joan of Arc to
her hus band.
What a noble, wifey ambition, the de-
termination, God helping, to accompany
her companion across the stormy sea OF
this life and together gain tho wharf of
the Celes tial City! Coax him along with
you'll You can not drive him there. Y on
can not nag him there; but you can coax
him there. That is Gods plan. He coaxes
us all the way--coaxes us out of our sins.
coaxes US to accept parti on, coaxes us TO
Heaven. Ii we reach that blessed place
it will be through a prolonged and divine
coaxing. BY the same process take your
companion, and thenyou will get there as
well, and all your household. d. just the
opposite to your neighbor. Her wifely
ambition is all for this world, and dis
appointed and vexed and unhappy croat-
ure size will be all the way. Her resi-
dence may he better than yours for the
few years of earthly stay, Int she will
move out of it as to her body into house
about five and one-half feet long and
about three feet wide and two feet high,
and concerning her SOUPS destiny you can
make your own prognostication. Her
husband and her sons and daughters,
who all, like her, live for this world,
will have about the same destiny
for the body and the soul. You
having had sanctified aud di.
vinely ennobled wfely ambition, will pass
up into pal aces, and what becomes of your
body is of no Importance, for il is only
scafo,ding pulled down now that youi
temple is DONE You will stand In the
everlasting rest and see your husband
come in, and see your children como in, il
they have not preceded you. Gloriiied
Christian wife! Pick up any crown you
choose from Off the Kings footstool and
wear III; it was promised you long ago,
and with il cover up all the scars of your
earthly conflict
Sixteen miles from st. Petersburg, Rus.
STA, was one of the royal palaces, aud
there one night Catherine, the Empress,
enterta ined Prince Henry. 1t was severe
winter and deep snow, and the Empress
and the Prince rode in a magniflceuce OF
sleigh and robe and canopy never sur
p assed, followed by two thousand sleighs
laden with the first people OF Russia, the
whole length of the distance illuminated
by lamps and dazzling temples bull for
that one night and limitations OF
mosques and Egyptian pyramids;
and people of all nations in all
styles of costume standing on platforms
along the way and watching the blaze OF
the pyrotechnics. At the palace the lux
uries Of kingdoms were gathered and
spread, and at the tables the guests had
but TO touch the center Of plate, and by
magical machinery 1t dropped aud an
other plate came up loaded with still
richer viands. Bat all that scene OF
the long ago shall be eclipsed by
the greater splendors that will be
gathered at the banquet made by the
Heavenly King for those cousecrated
women who came in out Of the winter
sGd snowy chill OF their earthl Y existence
into the warm and illumined palaces oil
Heaven. With the King himself aud all
the potentates, yourself ROBBED and
crowned, you will q at a table conn AIRED
with which all the feasts at Kenil worth