Connecticut western news., 1895-11-21
A SERMON FOR WOMEN
REV. DIR. TALMAGE DESCRIBES THE
 NEW WOMAN.


 NEW WOMAN.
 He Has Faith In Evangelistic Triumph
 and Progress Tn the Right Direction.
 This Is . Good World For Girls-Moth-
 CTS Too Often Forgotten.
 WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.-Rev. Dr. Tal- mage took for the subject of today's ser- mon "A Word With Women," the text for the occasion being the following let ter received by the distinguished preach CT: fE FtFs1 &fFs
 REvEREED SrR-You delivered discourse in answer to letter from six young men of Faystte, O., requesting you ito preach ser mon on "Advice to Young Men," Are we justi- lied in asking you to preach a sermon on "Ad- vice to Young WomenY"
 LETTER SIGNED BY SIX YOUNG WOMEN
 Christ, who took his text from flock of birds ASing overhead, saying, Be hold the fowls of the air" and from the flowers in theryalley, saying, Consider the liiies of the field" and from the clucking of barnyard fowl, saying, "As hen gathereth her chickens under her wing" and from a crystal of salt picked up by the roadside, saying, Salt is good, will grant us blessing if, in stead of taking text from the Bible, I take for mygtext this letter from Gin cinnati, which is only one of many let ters which have received from young women in New York. New Orleans, San Francisco, London, Edinburgh, and from the eDdssof the eartlL all. H.implying that, haviu some months ago preached the sermon on Advice to Young Men, ," l could not, without neglect of duty, re- fuse to preach a sermon on stAdvice to Young Women.
 It is the more important that the pull pit be heard on this subject at this time when we are haring such an illimitable discussion a,I0n1 wkatis cAl2ed thenew woman, asxhoeghs ssoans laewcreAtare of God had arrived on earth CT were about to arrive. One theory is that she will be. an athlete. and boxing glove and football and pngiaistie encoanter will characterize her. Another theory is that che will superintend ballot boxes, sitrin congressional hall and through improved politics bring the millennium by the evil she will extirpate and the good she will install AnetAer theory is that she will adopt masculine attire and make sacred a Vul8ariapfsnf positively horrific. Another theory is that Ishe. .willYbe so aesthetic that broom handle and rolling piA sndpoal scuttle will be pictorialized with tints from soft skies or suggestions of Remhrandt and Raphael.
 ThS Nsw Woman wiil Bc Good.
 Heaven deliver the church and the world from any one of these styles of new woman! She will never come. l have so much faith in the evangelistic triumph and in the progress of all things in the right direction that I prophecy that stylo of new woman will never ar rive She would hand over this world to diabolisn, and from being, as she is now. the nightiest agency for the worlds uplifting, she would be the mightiest force for it's downthrust.
 will tell you who the new woman willlbe. It will be the good woman of alithe agesspast Here and there a diff ferenoe of attire. as the temporary cus- tom may command, but the egood, honest, lovely, Christian, all influential being that your mother and mine was. Of that kind of woman was Christian Eddy, who, talking to aman who was so much of an unbeliever he had named his two children Voltaire and Tom Paine nevertheless saw him converted, he breaking down with emotion as he said to her. 1T cannot stand you, you talk like my mother" And telling the story of his conversion to 12 companions who had ibeens blasant opposers of religion they asked her to come and see them also and tell them of Christ, and four of them were converted, and all the oth- CTS greatly changed. and the leader of the band, depAssihs for heaven, shouted :: Joyful Joyful Joyfnlr" If you know any better style of woman than that, where is. she? The world cannot inn prove son that kind. The new woman may lave moro knowledge because she will have more books, but she will have no more common sense than that which tried to manage and discipline and edu- cate us, and did as well as she could with such unpromising material. She may hase moro health than the woman of other days, for the sewing machine and the sanitary regulations and added madagascar the subjects of diet, ven- tilation and exercise and rescue from many fotins of drudgery may allow her more longevity, but she will have the samechn1&cteriaics which God gave her ins pafaaise, with tho exception of the nervous shock and moral jolt of the fall she got that day when, not noticing where she stepped, she looked up into tho branches of the fruit tree.
 But must be specific. This letter be- fore me wants advice to young women. Get Right With God.
 Advice the first Get your soul right with God and you will be insthe best attitude for everything that comes. New ways of voyaging by sea, new ways oi travelling by land, new ways of thrash ing the harvests, new ways of printing books-and the patent office is enough te enchant man who has mechanical in. genmty end knows a good deal of levers aiDd wheels -and we hardly do anything as it used to be done; Invention after invention, invention on top of inven tion. But in the matter of getting right with God there has not been an inven tion for 5000 years. It is on the same line of repentance that David exercised about his sins, and the same old style of prayer that the publican used whe1 he emphasized it by an inward strok' of both hands, and the same faith il Christ that Paul suggested to the jailel the night the penitentiary broke down Aye, that is the reason have more con fidence in it. It has been tried by more millions than dare to state lest com' far short of the brilliant facts. All wht through Christ earnestly tried to ge right with God are right and alwayl will be right. That gives the young woman who gets that position superior ity over all rivairies, all jealousies, al misf rtunes, all health failings, all SO cial disasters, and all the combined L-