Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-02-23
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
Sixth Sermon of the Series to the
Women of America.
Female Suffrage Not the Kennedy for
DrunkenneSs-Resuits Of Good and
Rad Advice From Wives
IL Husbands:

IL Husbands:
In the sixth discourse OF his series to
| the Women Of America, delivered ut
| Brooklyn tabernacle, Rev. T. Dewitt Tai
mage tool for hts subject: sWifsly Ambi.
ton, Good and Bad" His text was:
| Arise, and eat bread, and let thine heart be
| merry: will give thee the vineyard OF Naboth.
Il Kings. xxi. Z.
DR.. Talmage said:
One day King Ahab, looking out Of the
window of his palace At Jezreel. said to
his wife, Jezebel: eve ought to have these
royal gardens enlarged. II we could only
get that fellow, Nabotb, who owns that
vineyard out there, to trade or sell. we
could make it 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. l want your vineya ard for a
kitchen garden, and l will give you a
great deal better vineyard in place of it,
or, if you prefer money fer it, will give
| you cash."
"Oh, no." says Naboth, II 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
Aha h iu<o Ia nd AunO hi i'm.
| self on the bed, and turned his face to the
wall in a great pout. His wife jezebel
comes in and she says: "What is the ma +:
ter with you? Are you sick?"
"Oh," he says; II feel verv blue: ~ have
set my heart on getting that kitchen gar:
den, and Naboth will neither trade nor
sell. and to be defeated by a common gar
dener is more than can stand"
''Oh, pshaw," says Jezebel, ''don't go
on that way. Get up and eat your din.
ner and stop moping. I will get for you
that kitchen garden."
Then Jezsbel borrowed her husbands
| sionst or seal, for then, as now, in those
lands kings never signed their names, but
had ring with the royal mamie engraved
! on it, and that impressed on royal let
ter or document was the signature. She
stamped her husbands name on d
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
rendihg the dead body Of poor Naboth,
Elijah, the prophet, tells them of other
CANNES that will after awhile have free
banquet, savings ''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 blood. And a
little afterward his wife, Jezsbe!, who had
been his chief adviser in crime, stands at
her palace-window and sees Jehu, the
enemy, approach ng to take possession OF
the Palace. And to make h srself look as
| attractive as possible and queenly to the
very last. she decorated her person and
| according to oriental cnstom closed her
eyes and ran brush dipped in black
powder along the eyelashes. and then
from the window she glared her indigna.
ton upon Johu. As be rode to the gates
in his chariot he shouted to the slaves in
her room: ''Throw her downw But no
doubt the slaves halted 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:
har Iov 4
bore her struggling and cursing to the
window easement and hurled her forth
until she came tumbling to the earth,
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 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 al peared 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
d>atl.-the palms of tho hands and soes
of the feet.
Ali this appalling scene of ancient his
tory was the result of wife's bad adj
vice to husband, of wife's struggle
to advance her husbands interests by un.
| lawful means. Ahab and Jezsbel 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; will 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
most potent and semi omnipOtent
influence, and decides the course of indi.
viduals, families, nations. centuries and
eternities. I speak Of wifely ambition,
go d and bad. How important that every
wife have her ambition-an elevated,
righteous and divinely- approved ambi.
ton.
And he,e let me say, what I am most
anxious tor is that woman, not waiting
for the rights denied her or postponed,
promptly and decisively 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 ballot.box. / wish that the expert.
ment might be tried and settled. I would
like to 500 all women vote and then watch
the result. do not know that it 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 solid!y Republi can or
Democratic or Prob bition. Those families
all voting would make more votes, but NO
difference in the result. Besides that, as
now at the polls men are bought up by
the thousands, women would be bought
up by the thous ands. The more voters
the more opportunity for political corrup-
ton, We have several millions more