Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-27
ssdIy MsRsH Who Hold ths World
Back From Sin and Lift II
Toward Virtue.
Tkv ES,hers Of Po-DaT, Sh0uid UHders
ssasa that They ars Ewing for
Ali Time
against sks Sides Of Every Cradle in WhIeh
q Child IL Booked Beat Two
Btsznisiss.

T. Dewitt TAlmage, ID. Dr. preached IN
the BrooklynTsbernscle to-day the eighth
series Of "SeTnons 80 the Women OF
America with Important Hints to Men"
His subject was: "The Grandmother
and Her Grandchildren" A vast con-
grsgstion WAS present. The opening
hymn begins:
Give 70 the wind thy fears,
Hope and be undismaysdi
Coo hears thy tiShs and counts thy tears,
God shall lift up thy head.
Dr., TalmSge's text WIS from II.
Timothy /, 8: nThe uEfsigned faith that
ia in thee, which dwelt first IN thy Grand
mother Lois" The eloquent preacher
said;
In this love letter which Paul, the old
minister, is writing to Timothy, the
Young minister, the family record Is
brought out. Paul practically says:
uTimothy, what q gosd grandmother you
had. You ought to be better than most
folks, because not only was your mother
GOOD but your grandmother. Two pre-
Cedlng generations OF piety ought to give
YOU mighty push in the right
direction" The fact was that Tim
othy needed encouragement. he was
in poor health, having weak stomach
and was dyspep pic and Paul prescribed
for him 6 tonic, ga little wine tor thy
stomsch's sakg''-not much wine but 8
little wine and only as medicine. And
If the wine then hsd been SIS much 6dul-
terated with logWood and stry Gimme as
our modern wines he would not have pre-
scrioed any.
But Timothy, not strong physically, is
encouraged spiritually by the recital OF
graudmotherlv excellence, Paul limiting
TO him, IS I hint this day to you, that
God sometimes gathers up as in reser-
voir away back OF the active generations
of to-day 6 godly influence and then in
response tolprayer let's down the power
upon children and grandchildren and
great-grandchildren. The world is wo-
fully In Wsnt of table OF statistics in
regard to what is the prOtrsctedness end
immensely Of influence Of one good
woman in the church and world. We
have accounts Of how much evil has baen
wrought by Margaret, the mother OF
criminals, who lived near a hundred
years ago and of how many
HUNDREDS OF CRIMINALS
her descendants furnished Tor the peni-
Tertiary ana the gelloWs and how many
hundreds OF thousands Of dollars they
cost this country in their arrsignment
and prison support as well as IN the
property they burglerized or de.
stroyed. But Will not some one
come out with brain comprehensive
enough and heart warm enough snd pen
keen enough to give us the facts in re-
gard to some good woman Of hundred
veXrs sgo, and let us know how many
Christian men and women and reformers
and useful people hsVe been found among
her descendants, aud how many ssplums
and colleges and churches they built, and
how many millions Of dollars they con
tributed for humanitarian and Christian
purposes?
TIE good women whose tombstones
were planted in the eighteenth century
are more alive for good in the nineteenth
century than they were before, as tht
good women Of this nineteenth century
will be more alive for good in the TWEEN
tieth century than now. Mark you,
have no idea that the grsndmothers wert
Sny better than their grSnddaughters
You cannot get very old people to tall
much about how things were when the!
we're boys and girls. They have reti
cence and q non-commitalism which
makes me think they feel themselves tt
be the cusuodisns Of the reputs-
ton of their esrly comrades. Whil'
our dear old folks are TeheErsing the
follies Of the present, if you put them OF
the witness stand and cross examine
them as to how things were seventy year!
ago the silence becomes oppressive.
A celebrated Frenchman by the name
of Volney visited sthis country in 1896
and he Gays Of womsn's diet IN thos,
times: "Ii premium Was offered for |
regimen most destructive to health, nom
could be devised more effiCscious To-
these ends than that in use among thes,
people.n That eclipses our lobste
salad at midnight. Everybody talk
about the diasipstions Of modern societ'
and how womanly health goes dow
under ii, but it was worse hundred
years ago, for the chaplain Of 9 French
regiment in our revolutionary war Wrot
in 1882, in lis book of American women
saying: "They are tall SAD well proper
toned, their features are generally Iegu
lar, their compilations are generally fai
snd without color At twenty years o
age the women have no longer
THE FRESHNESS OF YOUTH.
At thirty or forty they are decrepit.
Ia 1912 q foreign consul wrote book en-
titled ga Sketch OF the United States 8
the Commencement of the Present Cent
ury," and he says Of the women of thos
times: "At the age Of thirty sll thei
charms have disappeared" One glanc
st the portraits of the women hundre
years ago and their style of dress make
US wonder how they ever got their breath
All this makes me think that the expires
rail traln is no more an improvement o
the old canal boat, or the telegrsp
no more an Improvement o
the old-time ssddlebsgs, thsn the wome
of our day Hre an Improvement on ii
women of the last century.
But still, Notwithstanding that thos
times were so much worse than ours
there WAS glorious race of cody wo
men, seventy and d hundred years age
who held the world back froI
sin and lifted it towar
virtue, and without their exalted an
sauctifed influence before this the las
good influence would have persisted fror
the earth. Indeed, all over this Ian
there are seated to-dag-Dot so much i
churches, for many OF tnem are toe feebl
to come-a great many aged grand
mothers. They sometimes feel that th
world has gone past them, and they hsv
an idea they sre of little account The
head sometimes gets aching from tn
racket of the grandchildren down stall
or in the next raom Thew steady then