The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1888-04-07
DIR. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
Tho Grandnotbcr.

The GRANDMOTHER.
<'Tho unfoignod faith that is in thee, which
EsWclt first jn thy grandmother Lots. II Tim.
E:6.
In this 1ove-letter which Paul, the
old minister, is writing to Timothy, the
young minister, the family record is
''Timothy, what a good grandmother
you hadl You ought to be better than
most good folks, because not only.was
your mother good, but your grand
mother. Two preceding generations
of piety ought to give you a mighty
push in the right direction. {" The fact
was that Timothy needed encourage.
ment. He was in poor health, having
% weak stomach, and was dyspeptic,
and Paul prescribed for him u tonic, ssa
little wine, for thy Stomach'S sake',-,
mot much wine, but little wine, and
only as q medicine. And If the wine
then had been as much adulterated
with logwood and strychnine as our
modern wines, he would not have pre-
scribed any.
But Timothy, not strong physically,
is encouraged spiritually blythe recital
of grandmotherly excellence, Paul hint
ing to him, as hint this day to you,
that Cod sometimes gathers up, as in a
reservoir away back of the active gen-
erat'ons of to-day, a godly influence.
and then in response to prayer, let's
down the power upon children and
grandchildren and REORGANIZATION
The world Is woefully in want Of
table Of statistics in regard to what is
the protractedness and immensity Of
INFLUENCE OF ONE GOOD WOMAN
i'll the Church and world. We have
accounts Of how much evil has been
wrought by Margaret, the mother of
criminals, who lived near hundred
years ago, and Of how many hundreds
OF criminals her descendants furnished
for the penitentiary and the gallows,
and how many hundreds Of thousands
OF dollars they cost this country in their
arraignment and prison support, as we'll
as III the property they burglarized or
destroyed. But will not some one come
out with brain comprehensive enough,
and heart warm enough, and pen keen
enough to give us the facts in regard
to some good woman of hundred years
ago. and let us know how many Chris
tlan men and women and reformers
and useful people have been found
among her descendants, and how many
aSylums and colleges and churches
they built, and how many millions of
dollars they contributed for humanitar-
ian and Christian purposesp
The good women whose tombstones
were planted in the eighteenth century
are moro
ALIVE FOR GOOD
Ill the nineteenth century than they
were before, as the good women Of this
ninptpnnth mil No
Tor good in the twentieth century than
now. Mark you, / have no idea that
the grandmothers were any better than
their granddaughters. You cannot get
very old people to talk much about how
things were when they were boys and
girls. They have a reticence and a
non-committal which makes me think
they feel themselves to be the custo-
'lians Of tho reputation Of their early
comrades. While our dear old folks
are rohearsing the follies of the present,
IL you put them on the witness.stand
and cross-examine. them as to how
things were seventy years ago, the 81
lenco becomes oppressive.
A celebrated F'renchman by tho
name of Vorney visited this country in
1856, and he says Of
WoMAN's DIET
in those times: eff premium was Of
fered for a regimen most destructive to
health, mono could be devised more eff
caclons for these ends than that in use
among these people.n That eclipses
'our lobster salad at midnight. Every
body talks about the designations or
modern society, and how womanly
health goes down under it, but it was |
worse hundred years ago, for the |
chaplain Of a Fronch regiment in our |
Revolutionary war wrote in 1882, in |
his book OF American women, saying: |
'"They are tall and we'll proportioned, |
their features arc generally regular,
their compilations are generally fair and |
without color. At twenty years of age |
the women have no longer the freshness |
OF youth. At thirty or forty they are |
decrepit.' In 1912 q foreign consul |
wrote book entitled, "a Sketch of
the United States at the Commence
ment of tho Present Century,"
and he says of the women Of those
times, cat the age Of thirty all their
charms have disappeared. One glance
at the portraits Of the women hun
:dred years ago and their style Of dress
makes us wonder how they ever got
their breath. All this makes mo think
that The express rail train is no more
an Improvement on tho old canal-boat,
or the telegraph no more an improve
ment on tho Old-time saddlebags, than
the women OF our day are an i'm
provemeDt on tho women of the last
century. a"
But still, notwithstanding that those
times were so much worse than ours,
there was
a GLORIOUS RACE OF GoDLY WOMEN
seventy and hundred years ago, who
held the world back from sin and lifted
1t toward virtue, and without their ex-
allied and sanctitied Influence before
Shis, the last good influence would have