Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-24

return to the church and its services,
Where is that family to-day! Obliterated.
Although succeeding in business for which
he was qualified, he undertook style OF
merchandise for which he had no qualitl-
cation, and soon went into bankruptcy.
His new style of business put him into evil
association. He lost his morals as we'll 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 rs any of you who sit here to-
day, has become homeless, penniless
libertine. His wife's ambition for more
genteel business destroyed him and dis
graced her, and blighted their only child.
But suppose now there be in our homes,
as thank God there nre in hundreds of
homes here represented, on the wifely
throne one who says not only by her words
but more powerfully by her actions: "Aly
husband, our destinies are united: let US
see where industry, honesty, common
sense, and faith in God will put us. am
with you in all your enterprises. I cannot
be with you in person rs you go to your
daily business, but will be with you in
my prayers. Let us see what we can
God in our lives, and God in our homes.
BE on the side of everything good. Go
ahead and do your best. and though every
thing should turn out different from what
We have calculated, you may always count
on two who are going to help you, and
God is one and l am the other" That
man may have feeble health, and may
meet with many obstacles and business
trials, but he is coming gloriously through,
for he is reinforced, and inspired, and
spurred on by womars voice ns much as
was Barak by Deborah, when Sisera, with
500 iron chariots, came on to crash him
and his army, and Deborah shouted in the
ear of Barak: Cup! for this is the day in
which the Lord hath delivered Sisera into
thine hands," And the enemy fell back,
and Siseras chariot not getting along fast
enough in the retreat, the General jumped
out and took it afoot, and ran till he came
to place where a woman first gave him a
drink of milk, and then sent spike
through his skull, mailing him to the floor.
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 influence upon the hus-
band is the only home influence. In a
great multitude of the best and most i'm
portant and most talented families of the
earth there have been no descendants
There is not child or grandchild or any
remote descendant of Washingt or
! Charles Sumner or Shakespeare or Ed
mund Burke or Pitt or Lord Nelson or
Cowper or Pope or Addison or johnson or
Lord Chatham or Grnttan or Isaac New
ton or Goldsmith or Swift or Locke or
Gibbon or Walpele or Canning or Dryden
or Moore or Chaucer or Lord Byron or
Walter Scott or Oliver Crowell or GarriclS
or Hogarth or Joshua Reynolds or
Spencer or Lord Bacon or Macaulay. Null
titudes 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 consecra-
ton, God withdrew them. In multitudes
OF cases all womans opportunity for use
fulness is with her contemporaries. How
important that it be an improved oppor-
tunity!
While the French warriors on their way
to Rheims had about concluded to give up
attacking the castle at Troyes because it
was SO heavily garrisoned, Joan of Arc, en-
tered the room and told them they would
be inside the castle in three days. ave
the learders. "Six." she cried out, "you
shall be in it tomorrow, and under her
leadership on the morrow they entered.
On smaller scale every man has garrisons
to subdue and obstacles to level, and every
wife may be an inspired Joan of Arc to her
husband.
What noble, wifely ambition, the de-
termination, God helping, to accompany
her companion across the stormy sea of
this life, and together gain the wharf of
the celestial city! Coax him along with
you! You cannot drive him there. You
cannot nag him there. That is Gods plan.
He coaxes us oil the way-coaXes us out
of our sins, coaXes US to accept pardon,
coaxes US to Heaven. 1t we reach that
blessed place it will be through pro-
longed and divine coaxing. by the same
process take your companion, and then you
will get there as we'll, and all your house,
hold. DO just the opposite to your neigh
Dor. Her wifely ambition is all for this
world. and disappointed and vexed and
unhappy creature she will be all the way.
Her residence may be better than yours
| for the fewyears of earthly stay, but she
will move out of it as to her body into a
house about five and half feet long and
about three feet wide and two feet high,
and concerning her souls destiny you can
make your own representation. Her hus-
band, and her sons and daughters, who
all, like her, live for this world, will have
about the same destiny for the body and
soul. You having had sanctified and
divine ennobled wifely ambition, will pass
up into palaces, and what becomes of your
body is of no importance, for it is only
scatfolding, 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. Glorihed
Christian wife! 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 sears of your
earthly conflict.
Sixteen miles from Petersburg, Russia,
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 magniticence of sleigh
and robe and canopy never surpassed, fol-
lowed by 1900 sleighs laden with the first
people of Russia, the whole length Of the
distance illumined by lamps and dazzling
temples built for that one night, and imi-
tations Of mosques and Egyptian pyra-
mids; 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 table the guests had
but to touch the center of plate, and by
magical machinery it dropped, and
another plate came up loaded
,rith cfil1 ri oil