The Brookhaven leader., 1888-02-23

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may always count on two who are going
to help you, and God is one aud am ths
other" That man may have feeble health,
and may meet with many obstacles and
business trials, but he is coming glorious
ly through, for he is reinforced, and i'm
spired, and spurred on by woman's voice,
IS much as was Barak by Dshorah, when
SiSerA with nine hundred iron chariots
came on to crush him and his army, aud
Deborah shouted in the ear CT Barak:
"Upi for this is the day in which the
Lord hath delivered Ssera into thine
hands" And the enemy fell back aud
Sisera's chariot not getting along fast
enoughlinithe retreat, the General jumped
out and took II afoot, and ran till he came
toa place where q woman first gave him 9
drink Of milk and then sent a spike
through his skull, mailing him to the floor.
Some Of us could tell of what influence
upon us has been wifely ambition con.
secrated to Righteousness. As my wife is
out OF town and will not shake her head
because say it in public, will state that
in my own professional life | have often
been called Of God, as l thought, to run
into the very teeth of public opini ion, and
all outsiders with whom | advis ID told
ME had better not it would ruin me and
ruin my church, and at the same tim,
was receiving nice little letters threaten.
ing me with dirk and pistol and poison il
/ persisted in attacking certain evils Of
the day, until the comm sSion5r of poles
consd 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 ONE
there has always been one voice to say:
"Go ahead, and divergs not an inch
from the straight line, Who cares il only
Gsd is on our side?"
And though sometimes it seemed as if
was going out against nine hundred iron
chariotS, l went ahead, cheered by the
domestic voice;
"Upi for this Is the day in which the
Lord hath delivered sisera into thine
hands"
= man is no better than his wife will let
him be. o wives of America, swing your
| scepters of wifaly influence for God and
| good honest Do rot urge your husband.
to ann K Naboth's vineyard to your pal.
ace of success, whether right or wrong
lost the dogs that come out to destroy Ne
both come out also 70 d8Tour YOU. Right
eouSness will pay best in life. VIII pay
best in death, will pay best in the 1uag,
ment, will pay hest through all eteraty
In or efforts to have the mother Of
every household app ~eciate her influence
over her children we are apt to forget tho
wife's influence over the husband. In
many households the influence upon the
husband is the only home influence. In
great multitude of tho heat and most I'M
portens and most talented families of the
earth there have been no descendants.
There Is not a child, or a grandchjld, 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 cha ham, CT Grattan, or
Isaac Newton, or Goldsmith, or Swift. or
Locke, or Gibbon, or Walpole, or Can
ming, or Dryden. or Moore, or Chaucsr. or
Lord Byron, or Walter Scott, or Oliver
Cromwell, or Garrck or Hogarth, or
Joshua Reynolds, or Spencer, or Lord
Bacon, or Macaulav. MulttudeS 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, OF invention, or
conservation, God withdrew them. In
muttudes Of cases all woman's oppot-
sunity for usefulness is with her cotemp-
orares. How important that il b. an
improved opportunity!
While the French warriors on their
way to Rheims had about concluded tc
give up attacking the castle at Troves b.
cause it was so heavily garrisoned, J an
of Arc entered the room and told them
they would be inside the castle in three
DAYS
1--WE would willingly wait six days."
said one of the leaders.
"Si1" she cried out; ''vou shall be in
1t tomorrow" And, under her leader
ship, on the morrow they entered On
smaller scale every man has garrisous to
subdue and obs tacles to level, and every
wife may be an inspired Joan of Arc to
her hus band.
What noble, wifey ambition, the de-
termination, God helping, to accompany
her companion across the stormy sea OF
this life and together gain the wharf of
the Celes tial Cityl Coax him along with
you'll You can not drive him there. You
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 pardon, coaxes us TO
Heaven. If we reach thai blessed place
it will be through a prolonged and divine
coaxing. By the same process take your
COlllpdHlOu, anu Iueu you Will Seb JubIe 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 Great
ure she will be all the way. Her resi-
dence may be better than yours for the
few years of earthly stay, but 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 ,oul's destiny you can
make your own representation. Her
husband and her sons and daughters,
who all, like her, live for this world
for the body and the soul. You
having had sanctifed and di.
vinely ennobled wifely ambition, will pass
up into palaces, and what becomes of your
body is of no Importance. for it IS only
scaffoding, pulled down now that your
temple is done. You will stand in the
everlasting rest and see your husband
come in, and see your children come in, if
they have not preceded you. Glorifed
Christian wifel Pick up any crown you
choose from off the Kings footstool and
wear it; it was promised you long ago,
and with it cover up all the scars of you
earthly conflict.
Sixteen miles from st. Petersburg, Rus
STA, was one of the royal palaces, and
| there one night Catherine, the Empress,
entertained Prince Henry. 1t was severe
winter and deep snow, and the Empress
and the Prince rode in a magnifcence OF
sleigh and robe and canopy never SUR