Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-02
4 GLORIOUS RACE.
Cody Women Who Hold the World
Back From Sin and Lift II
Toward Virtue.
Ths Mothers OF To-Day, Should Under
stand that They are Living for
All Times
a Child Is Rocked Beat Two
Eternities.

CHILDREN.
Special to the Gazette.
BROOKLYN, N. Y, Feb. 26.-The Rev.
T. Dewitt Talmsge, D. D., preached in
the BrooklynTabernacle to-day the eighth
series Of sermons to the Women Of
America with Important Hints to Men. s"
His subject was: "The Grandmother
and Her Grandchildren" A vast con-
gregation was present. The opening
hymn begins:
Give to the wind thy fears,
Hope and be ~undismayed;
God hears thy signs and counts thy tears,
God shall lift up thy head.
Dr.. Tslmage's text was from II.
Timothy l, 5: "The unfaigned faith that
is III 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:
"Timothy, what g COED grandmother you
had. You ought to be better than most
folks, because not only was your mother
good but your grandmother. Two pre-
cedIng generations Of piety ought to give
Fou q mighty push in the right
direction" The fact was that Tim
othy needed encouragement. He was
in poor health, having a weak stomach
and was dyspeptic and Paul prescribed
for him q tonic, "a little wine for thy
stomach's sake'-not much wine but q
little wine and only as a medicine. And
II the wine then had been as much sdul-
ter1ted with logBood and strychnine as
our modern wines he would not have pre-
scribed any.
But Timothy, not strong physically, is
encouraged spiritually by the recital of
grapdmotherlv excellence, Paul limiting
to him, as l hint this day to you, that
God sometimes gathers up as In q reser-
Voir away back Of the active generations
of to-day q cody influence and then in
response to prayer let's down the power
upon children and grandchildren and
great-grandchildren. The world is wo-
fully In want Of 8 table OF statistics in
regard to what Is the protracteduess and
immensely Of influence of one good
woman in the church and world. We
have accounts of how much evil has been
wrought by Margaret, the mother OF
criminals, who lived near q hundred
years sgo and Of how many
HUNDREDS OF CRIMINALS
her descendants furnished TOR the peni-
Tertiary n the gelloWs and how many
hundreds OF thousands of dollars they
cost this country in their srraignment
snd prison support as well as in the
property they burglsrized or de-
stroyed. But will not som one
come out with brain comprehensive
enough and heart warm enough and pen
keen enough to give us the facts In re-
gard to some good woman Of q hundred
years sgo, and let us know how many
Christian men and women and reformers
and useful people have been found among
her descendants, aud how many Ssylums
and colleges and churches they built, and
how many millions of dollars they con-
tfibuted for Humanitarian and Christian
purposes?
The good women whose COMMISSIONERS
were planted in the eighteenth century
are more alive for good in the nineteenth
century than they were before, IS the
good women of this nineteenth century
will be more alive for good in the TWEEN
Cieth century than now. Marx you, l
have no idea that the grandmothers were
any better than their granddaughtere
You cannot get very old people to talk
much about how things were when they
we're Boys and girls. They have n reti-
cepce and q non-commitalism which
makes me think they feel themselves to
be the c~usLodisus OF the reputa-
ton Of their early comrades. While
our dear old folks are rehearsirg the
follies Of the present, If you put them Oh
the witness stand and cress examine
them SIS to how things were seventy years
ago the silence becomes oppressive.
A celebrated FreDchmEn by the nsme
OF Voluey visited this country in 1886,
and he says Of wcman's diet N those
times: "If a premium was offered for 8
regimen most destructive to health, none
could be devised more etlcacious for
lhese ends than thst in use among these
people" That eclipses our lobster
salad at midnight. Everybody talks
about the designations Of modern society
and how womanly heslth goes down
under 1t, but II was worse q hundred
years ago, for the chaplain of 3 French
regiment in our revolutionary wal wrote
In 1882, in his book OF American women,
saying: "They are tall and well proper
toned, their Gestures are generally regu-
lsr, their compilations are generally fair
and without color At twenty years of
age the women have no longer
THE FREsRNEss OF YOUTH.
At thirty or forty they are decrepit."
In 1912 8 foreign consul wrote s book en-
titled ga Sketch Of the United Sastes at
the Commencement Of the Present Cent
ury," snd he says Of the women of those
times: "At the age of thirty sill their
charms have disappeared" One glance
st the portraits of the wonen a hundred
years ago and their style Of dress makes
US wonder how they ever got their breath
All this makes me think that the express
rail train is no more an improvement on
the old canal bost, or the telegraph
no more an Improvement on
the old-time saddlebsgs, than the women
Of our day are al Improvement on the
women of the last century.
But still, Notwithstanding that those
times were SO much worse thar ours,
there Wss 6 glorious race Of cody wo-
men, seventy and q hundred years ago,
who held the world back from
sin and lifted it toward
virtue, and without their exalted and
ssnctihed influence before this the last
good influence would hsye persisted from
the earth. Indeed, all over this land
there are seated to-day-Dot SO much in
churches, for many of them are too feeble
to come great many aged grand
mothers. They sometimes feel that the
world has gone past them, and they have
an idea they are of little account. Their
bead sometimes gets aching from the
racket of the grandchildren down stairs
or in the mex room. They steady them
selves by the bsnisters as they go up and