Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-03-09
GRANDMOTHER LOIS.
ralmage's Eighth Sermon to the
Women of America.

,,,s Is Hard World for Women' and Ais
u.n--A Mothers Influence of Immens
eating Importance on Unborn Gen
erations.
nnooxnyN. Feb. 26.-The Rev. T. d,
.,i ntN Talmage, d. d., preached in th,
mn- no Tabernacle to-day the eighth o
series OF Sermons to the women O
,l sorica. with important hints to men.
9 AM, snbiect was: 1.-The Grandmother ant
B 51l, Children" vast congregation wa.
t, r,,ent. The opening hymn begins:
,ive to the wind thy fears,
Hone and bs undisnayed;
cod hears thy signs and counts thy tears,
God shall lift up thy head.
NJ Talmages text was from III. Timoth,
:. aThe unfeigned faith that is in thee
.h IT, dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois.
Th l'i eloouent preacher said:
IT. IL his love letter which Paul. the Ole
.,; III is writing to Timothy, the young
ui,,i the family record is brought out.
% ',ui' practically. says: "rimothy, what a
! lo n"i drandmother you had. You ought to
o hei,er than most folks, because no,
uuIy was your mother good but your grand
Da Two preceding generations OF
P,iS,v ought to give you mighty push in
he ,e'i ri sht direction" The fact was that
fTimothy needed encouragement. He-was
n - poor health, having weak stomach,
Ind was dyspeptic, and Paul prescribed for
Kim him tonic, "a little wine for thy stomach's
49, not much wine, but little wine,
md only as medicine. And if the wine
lon had been as much adulterated with
wood INV nod, and strychnine as our modern
fuines, he would not have prescribed any.
Fl Ent Timothy, not strong physically. is
I,courased spiritually BY the recital of
p~sndmotherly excellence. Paul limiting 10
i'm. as hint to you, that God sometimes
Fathers up as in reservoir away back Of
|be active generations of to-day godly
nauence, and then, in response to prayer,
els down the power upon children, and
Grandchildren, and Observation-Disclosures
fbe world is woefully in want of table
Il statistics in regard to what is the pro-
r,rtedness and imme nsity of influence of
bne good woman in the church and world.
Ws have accounts of how much evil has
bean wrought by Margaret. the mother
+ criminals, who lived nearly 100 years
100, and how many hundreds of criminals
ber descendants furnished for the peniten-
{ioy and the gallows, and how many hun :
reds Of thousands of dollars they cost this
ouutrv in their arraignment and prison
Support. as we'll as in the property they
bursnlarized or destroyed. But will not
ome one come out with brain comprehen-
i've enough and heart warm enough and
ben keen enough to give US the facts in re-
lard to some good woman of hundred
fears ago, and let us know how many
| christian men and women and reformers
! md useful people have been found among
! er descendants, and how many asylums
l nd colleges and churches they built, and
low many millions of dollars they con-
|ributed for humanitarian and Christian
purposes?
The good women whose tombstones
sere planted in the Eighteenth century
re more alive for good in the Nineteenth
entury than they were before, as the good
omen of this Nineteenth century will be
nore alive for good in the Twentieth
entury than now. Mark you, I have no
iea that the grandmothers were any better
han their granddaughters. You cannot
ct very old people to talk much about how
lings were when they were boys and girls.
they have reticence and nom
pmmittalsm which makes me think
bey feel themselves to be the GUS
bdians of the reputation of
heir early comrades. While our dear
ID folks are rehearsing the follies of the
resent, if you put them on the witness
Hand and cross-examine them as to how
tlnss were seventy years ago the silence
becomes oppressive.
celebrated Frenchman by the name of
| olney visited this country in 1886, and
says of woman's diet in those times:
If premium was offered for regimen
pore destructive to health, none could be
kevsed more etficacious for these ends
pan that in use among these people,"
hat ecllpses our lobster salad ut mid
plight. Everybody talks about the dissipa-
ION OF modern society and how womanly
(ealth goes down under it; but it was
orse hundred years ago. for the chap
Pm OF q French regiment in our Revolu-
onary war wrote in 1882, in his book of
|merican women. saying: "They are tall
fnd we'll proportioned, their features are
generally regular. their compilations ore
|cnerally fair and Without color. At 20
EARS OF age the women have no longer the
feshness of youth. At 80 or 40 they are
|ecsopit." In 1872 foreign consul wrote
|ook entitled "a Sketch of the United
[tates at the Commencement of the Pres
|lt Century," and he says of the women
those times: "At the age of 30 all their
laEms have disappeared. Once glance
the portraits of the women hundred
ears ago and their style of dress makes
:, wonder how they ever got their breath.
~ this makes me think that the express
IL IRAN is no more an improvement on
e old canal boat, or the telegraph no
ore an improvements on the old time sud.
eoags, than the women of our day are an
npfovement on the women of the last
fntury.
lut still, notwithstanding that those
F aa We're SO much worse than ours, there
9 glorious race of godly women,
sehly and a hundred years ago, who held
world back from sin aud lifted it to-
alu virtue. and without their exalted and
neIlhed influence before this the last
poo influence would have persisted
om the earth. Indeed all over this land
ele are seated to- day-not so much in
urches, for many of them are too feeble
! eome-a great many aged grandmothers.
icy sometimes feel that the world has
ne past them, and they have an idea.they
VI little account. Their head some
a nes gets aching from the racket of the
anochildren down stairs or in the next
v nia. They steady themselves by the
uts'ers as they go up and down. When
~ set cold it hangs on to them longer
"n II used to. They cannot bear to have
grandchildren punished even when
n.y. os deserve it. and have so relaxed their
Gay GAY OF o, ), family discipline that they would
VII all the yOunosfers of fha houaeho1d