Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-02-18
.ACCOMAC g a. VA SATURDAY. FEBRUARY ls 1883

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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 am the other.n That man may have
feeble health, anil may meet with many
obstacles and business trials, but he is
coming gloriously through, for lie is re-
enforced, and inspired, and spur1ed on by a
womnn's voice, us much rs was Garak by
Deborah, when Siscra with !C0 iron chariots,
came on to crash him and his army, nnd
Deborah shouted i'll the ear of Bsral: up!
for this is the day il which the Lord hath
delivered Sisera into thine hands" And the
enemy fell back, md SiSera's chariot not get
ting along fast enough III tho retreat, tue
general jumped out nnd took afoot, and ran
till he came to place where u woman first
gave him IL drink of milk, and then sent q
spike through his SKULL mailing him to the
Goor.
Some of us could tell Of what influence
upon us has been wifcly ambition con-
sccrated to righteousness. As my wife is out
of town and will not shake her hcad because
say it in public, Twill state TINT in my own
professionalism 1 have often. been called of
God, as 7 thought, to run into tic very teeth
of public opinion, ,and all outsiders with
.whonrI advised told ne bed sheFges not, it
would ruin me andruin my church, and at
the same time was receiving nice little let
tiers threatening INC with dirk and pistol and
poison if persisted in attacking certain evils
of the day, until the commissioner OF police
considered it his duty to take his place
in our Sabbath services, with forty Off
GERS scattered through the house for the
preservation of order; but in my homo there
has always been one voice to say: SEQ ahead
and diyergc not an inch from the straight
line. Who cares if only God is Oh orr side?'
And though sometimes il seemed us if | was
going out against 500 iron charots, went
ahead checrcd by the domestic voice: "Up!
for this is the day in which the Lord hath
delivered Sscra into thine hands"
A man is no better than his wife will let
him be. Oh, wives of America, swing your
sccptcrs of wifely influence for God and good
homes! Do not urge your husbands to an
mex Naboth's vineyard to your palace Of sue
cess, whether right or wrong, lest the dogs
that come out to destroy Naboth come out
also to devour you. Righteousness will pay
best in life, will pay best in death, will pay
best in tho Judgment, will pay best through
ell eternity.
III our clfort to have the mother OF every
household appreciate her influence over her
children wo arc apt oforSct Tic wfc's inlu
cncc over the husband. In many households
the influence upon the husband is the only
home influence In q great multitude OF the
best and most Important and most tai
onted families of tho earth there have
been no descendants. There is not 4
child or grandchild or any remote descend
ant of Washington or Charles Sumner or
Shakespeare or Edmund Burke or Fit or
Lord Nelson or Cowper or Pope or Addison
or johnson or Lord Chatham or Grattan or
Isaac Newton or Goldsmith or Swift or
Locke or Gib5on or Walpolc or Canning or
DRYDEN or Moro or C!iaucer or Lord Byron
or Walter Scott or Oliver Cromwell Or Gar
rick or Hogarth or Joshua Reynolds or Spen-
Ger or Lord Bacon or Macaulcy. Multitudes
OF the finest families Of the earth arc extinct.
As though they had done enough for the
world by their genius or wit or patriotism
or invention or conservation, God withdrew
them. lii muGitules of cases all woman's
opportunity for usefulness is with Ler con-
temporaries. How important that it DO en-
improved opportunity
While the French warriors on their way to
Rheims had about concluded to give up ut
lacking the castle ct Troyes because twas SO
heavily garrisoncd, Joan Of Arc entered the
room and told them they would be inside the
castle in three days. I'VE woul,l willingly
wait six DAYS" said one OF the leaders. Skip
she cried out, 'you shall DO in it tomorrow,
and under her leadership on the morrow
they entered. On smaller scale every man
has garrisons to s,,bdus and obstacles to level,
and every wife may be IN inspired Joan Of
Arc to her husband.
What noble, wifely ambition, tho deter.
mination, God helping, to accompany her
companion across the stormy sea Of this life,
and together gain the wharf of tho celestial
city! Coax him along with you! You can
not drive him there. You cannot nag him
there, but You can coax him there. That is
Gods plan. Hc coaxes us all the way
coaxcs us ont of our sins, coaXes us to accept
pardon, conxes lis to heaven. If we reach
that blessed place il will be through pro-
lonscd and divine coaxing. b the samo
process take your companion, and then you
will get there as we'll, and all your house
hold. Do just the opposite to Your ncighbor.
Hcr wifcly ambition is all for this
world, and disappointed md yexcd
and Unhappy creature she will be all the
way. Her residence my he better than
yours for the few years of earthly stay, but
she will move out Of it rs to her body Into q
house about five and half feet long and
about three feet wide and two feet high, and
concerning her souls destiny you can mako
your own prognostication. Hcr husband,
and her SONS and daughters, who all, like her,
live for this world, will havo about the sumo
destiny for the body and soul. You having
bad u sanctlictl and divinely cnnobled wifely
ambition, will pass up into palaces, and what
becomes of your body is OF no Importance,
for it is only scal'oding, pulled down now
that your temple is done. You will stand In
the everlasting rest and see your husband
como III, and see your children come Ill, If
they have not preceded you. Gloritied Chris
tan 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 tho scars of your earthly conflict.
Sixteen miles from Petersburg, Eussia,
was one of the royal palaces, and there emo
night Catherine, the empress. entertained
Prince Henry 1t was severe WINTER and
deep snow, and the empress and the prince
rode in magniccncoo of sleigh and robe aud
canopy never surpassed, followed by 1000
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 limitations of mosques and Egyp-
tian pyramids and people Of all nations, in
all styles of costume, standing on platforms
along the way, and watching the blaze of the
pyrotcchnics. At the palace the luxu-
ries of Kingdoms were gathered and
spread, ard 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 with still richer
viands. But all that scene of the long ago
shall be cclipsed by the greater sp!endors that
will be gathered at the banquet made by the
heavenly king for those consecrated women
who come in out Of the wintry and snowy
chill of their earthly existence into the warm
and illumincd palaces OF heaven. With the