The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1888-02-23
TALMAGRS SERMON.
Sixth Sermon of the Series TO the
Women of America.
Female Suffrage Not the Kennedy for
Drunkenness-ResuIts of Good and
Bad Advice From Wives
to Husbands.

merry; will give thee the vineyard OF Naboth-
Il Kings, xxi, T.
DR.. Talmage said;
One day King Ahab looking ont of the
window Of his palace at Jezreel, said to
his wife, Jezebel: awe ought TO have these
royal gardens enlarged. II we could only
get that fellow, Naboth, who owns that
vineyard out there, to trade or sell. we
could make 1t a kitchen garden for our
palace"
"Fetch in Naboth." says the King to one
OF his servants.
The gardener, wondering why he should
be called into the presence Of His Majesty,
comes in a little downcast in his modesty
and with very obsequious manner bows
TO the King. The King says:
"Naboth, l want TO trade vineyards
with you. / want your vineyard for a
kitchen garden, and l will give you a
great deal better vineyard in place OF IT,,
or, il you prefer money for it, / will give
you cash"
"Oh, no." says Naboth, 81 can not
trade off my little place, nor can sell it.
1t is the old homestead. got It OF my
father, and he OF his father, and can not
let the old place go out of my hands"
In a great state OF petulancy, King
self on the bed, and turned his face TO the
wall in q great pout. His wife Jezebel
comes in and she says "What is the ma t.
ter with your Are you sickp
"Oh," he says, 81 feel very blue. 81 have
set my heart on getting that kitchen gar
den, and Naboth will Mother trade nor
sell, and to be defeated by a common gar
dener is more than can stand"
"0h, pshaw," says Jezebel, don't go
on that way. Get up and eat your din
ner and stop moping. l will get for you
that kitchen garden"
Then Jexebel borrowed her husbands
slgnet or seal, for then, as now, in those
lands kings never signed their names, but
had a ring with the royal name engraved
on IL, and that imp essed on a royal let
ter or document was the signature. She
stamped her husbands name on a
proclamation, which resulted in getting
Naboth tried for treason against the
King, and two perjured witnesses swore
their souls away with the life OF Naboth,
and he was stoned to death and his prop
erty came to the Crown, and so Jezebel
got for her husband and herself 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 awhile have 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 in battle, his carriage
dripping with the carnage, dogs stood
under it tapping his life's hlo1e-dd- And a
little afterward hisg sife, Jezebel, who ad
been MS clllett adviser in crime, stands at
Ut palace-window and sees Jehu, the
enemy, approach ng to take possession OF
the pnlaca 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 brush dipped in black
powder along the eye!ashes. and then
from the window she I'll AIRED her indigna-
tion upon Jehu. AS he rode to the gate.
in his chariot he shouted to the slaves in
her room: '"rhrow her down." But nc
doubt the slaves halted a moment from
such work as assassination, yet, knowing
Queen Jezebel could be no more to them
and the conqueror Jehu would be every
thing, as he shouted again:
"Throw her down" They seized her and
sore her struggling and cursing to the
window easement and hurled her forth
antil she came tumbling to the earth
striking ii Just In time to let Jehu's horses
.rample her and the chariot wheels roll
over her While Jehu is inside at the
table refreshing himself after the excite
ment, he orders his servants to go 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 in all ages
dogs are, by a strange instinct or brutal
supers tition, kept from touching after
death-the palms of the hands and soles
of the feet.
Ali this appalling scene of ancient his
tory was the result of wife's bad adj
vice TO a husband, of a wfe's struggle
to advance her husbands interests by I'M
lawful means. Ahab and Jezebel got the
kitchen garden of Naboth, but the dogs
got them. The trouble all began when
this mistaken wife aroused her husband
out Of his melancholy by the words OF the
text: "Arise and eat bread, and let thine
heart be merry; viii give thee the vine.
yard of Naboth."
The influence suggested by this subject
Is an influence you never before heard dis
coursed on, and may never hear again but
"A most potent and semi omnipotent
influence, and decides the course of indi-
viduals, families, nations centuries and
eternities. speak of wifely ambition,
god and bad. How important that every
wife have her ambition-an elevated,
righteous and divinely- approved ambi-
ton.
And here let me say, what / am most
anxious for is that woman, not waiting
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promptly and decislvely employ the
rights she already has in possession.
Some say she will be In fair way to get
all her rights when she gets the right to
the ballotbox. / wish that the experi-
ment might be tried and settled. / would
like to see all women vote and then watch
the result do not know that il would
change any thing for the better. Most
wives and daughters and sisters would
vote as their husbands and fathers and
brothers voted. Nearly all the families
that know are solidy Republi can or
Democratic or Prob lbtion. Those families
ali voting would make more votes, but no
difference in the result Besides that, as
now at the polls mon are bought up by
the thousands, women would bs bought
up by the thous ands. The more voters
the more opportunity for political corrup-
ton. We have several millions more
voters now than are for public good.
We are are told that female suffrage
would correct two evils--the rum business
and the insufficiency of woman's wages
About the rum business, have TO say
that multitudes of women drink and il is
no unusual thing to SEQ them in the
res taurants so overpowered with wine
and beer that they can hardly sit up,
while there are many so-callcd respectable
restaurants where they can 60 and take
their champagne and hot toddy all alone.
Mighty temperance voters those women
would makel Besides that, the wives Of
the rum-seilers would have to vote In tho
Interest of their husbands business, or
have "a time the reverse OF felicitious.
Besides that, billions OF respectable and
refined women ia America would prob
ably not vote at all, because they do not
want 20 go to the polls, and on the other
hand, womanly roughs would all 80 10
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