The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1895-11-22
AWORD WITH WOMEN
REV. DIR. TALMAGE's SERMON.
His Views OF the New Woman. AWort
For Mothers.

a.,
The text was the following letter received
"Reverend Sir-You delivered n discourse
IN answer to a letter from six young men of
Fayette, o.. requesting you to preach a SER
mon on Advice to Young Men. Are we
justified in asking YOU to preach sermon on
Advice to Young Women?
LETTER SIGNEp BY Six YoUIG WOMEN"
Christ, who took His text from flock of
birds flying overhead. saying 'iBehold the
fowls OF the dir. and from the flowers in the
valley saying, CONSIDER the lilies OF the
Held, and from the clucking of>a BARNARD.
FOWL. saying. LAS Il hen gathered her chick
ems under her wing" and from a crystal OF
salt picked up by the roadside saying. salt
Is good, )" will grant us Il blessing il, instead
OF taking text from the Bible, I take for my
text this letter from Cincinnati. which is only
one Of many letters which I have received
from young women in New YORK. New
Orleans, San Francisco. Lo1don. Edinburgh
and from the ends OF the earth. all implying
that, having some nor. hs ago preached the
sermon on "Advice 10 Young Men.'I could
not, without neglect OF duty refuse TO
preach sermon on advice 20 Young Wo-
men,
1t is the more imrortInt that the J;;ip;t be
heard on this subject at this time when we
are haTin. such an IllimitaSle discussion
about what is called the new woman rs
though some rev creature of God had ar
rived { n earth or We're about to arrive. One
theory is that she will ps an athlete. and box.
ING glove and football and puci!istic er-
counter will characterize her. Another
theory is that she viii, superintend ballot
boxes, sit in Congressional hall aud, through
improved politics, brin; the millennium by
the evil She will extirpate and the good sha
wit install. Another theory is that she viii.
adopt masculine attire and make sacred a
vulgarianism positively Eorrfc. Another
theory is that she will ne so aesthetic that
broom handle and rolling pin and coal scut-
tie will be pictorialized with tints from soft
skies or suggestions of Rembrandt and
Ranhael.
Heaven deliver the church and the world
from any one OF these STYLES of new woman:
Shewill never come. I have so much faith
in the eyangelistic triumph and in the pro-
gress OF all things in the right direction thnr
Iprophesv that style OF new woman will
never arrive. She would hand over tnis
world to diabolism. and from being. ~ sha ia
now. the mightiest agency for the worlds ;
uplifting. she would be the m.gh;iest Torce
Tor its downtbrust.
will tell you Who the lew woman Will
be. IT will be the good woman os all the
ages past. Hero and there Il dircreu ~ OF
attire, as the temp rary custom may cou-
rnand. but the same good. honest, lovely
Christian, all Influential being that YOU:
mother and mine was. OF THAI kia,i Of wo-
man WAS Christian Eddy. wIo. talking TO Il
man VINO was so much oi m unheiiaver he
had named his two children NCitaire aud
he breaking down with emotion as he said
TO her. Il cannot stand you. you talk like
my mother" And telling the story of his
conversion to twelve companions who had
been blatant opposers Of religion, thov asked
her to come and see tnem also and tell them
OF Christ. and four OF them wera converted
and all the others greatly changed. aud the
leader OF the band. departing for heaven
shouted: Joyful! Joyful, Joyfu!i' If YOU
know any better style OF woman than that.
where is she? The world cannot improve
on that kind. The new woman NAV have
more 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 rs well as she could
with such unpromising material. She may
days, for the Sewing machine and the sani-
tary regulations and added intelligence OF
the subjects of diet, ventilation and exercise
and rescue from many forms os drudgcrv
may allow her more longevity but she will
have the same characteristics wnich God
gave her In paradise, with the exception Of
the nervous shock and moral Jolt OF tho fall
she got that day when. not noticing where
sho stepped. she looked up into the branches
OF the fruit tree.
But must be specific. This letter before
me wants advice TO young women.
ADVICE tine hrst: Get your soul right with
God and you will DC in the best attitude for
everything that comes New ways OF vovac-
ing by sea, new WAYS of travelling by land
new ways Of thrashing the harvest new ways
OF printing books-and the ratent office is
enough 10 enchant n man who has mcchani-
cal ingenuity and knows u good deal OF
levers and wheels and we hardly do any-
thing as it used to ba done: invention after
invention, invention on tor OF invention.
But in the matter of getting right with God
there has not been an invention for GO0O
years. 1t is on the same line of repentancr
pyprpiSpf ii ~
same old style OF prayer that III" PUBLICAN
used when he emphasized it by az, inward
stroke of both hands, and the same faith in
Christ that Paul suggested to the jailer the
night the peniientiary broke down Ave
that Ia the reason / nave moro confidence in
1t. 1t has been tried by more millions than
L dare to state lest come far short OF the
brilliant facts. AL who through Christ earn-
estiy tried to get right with God are right
and always will be right That yiyas the
young woman who gets that position superb
ority over all riva'res, all jca.ousies. ali
misfortunes. ail health failinss. all social
disasters and all the comhinea troubles of
eighty years. if she shall liz" t. pc IN octo-
genariaE. III the word fails to apprecia;c
her. she says, "God loves me. the angels in
heaven are in sympathy with mc, and can
aifordt b" patient until tho dUv when the
imperial chariot shall wheel & my door to
TAX" me up to MY coronatior.' r. health
goes. she says. Il can cn.ura the present
distress. ior am on the way t. . climate
the first breath o: which will maize ne proof
against even the slightest Gisc.Mio If
she be ioStleh with ncrturbntion~ OF social
life, sh" can say. ''Wcll wien / begin my
~" among IL" thrones OF heaven AMI the
king and queens unto GcIL shalt 10 ny A.
"octatct, 1t viii IL. ma"n mu"h diff. ,ura
who Oh earth ,Oycot ne wrcn the Invitations
10 that reception we Irrir on" Al right !
Wl'h Goa, yea are Hi right witt. "v"ry .hin. !
M"rtu !.&.lS:. writing Il letter OF con-
do!unce 10 one % III" fr"DdG who na.! irSf |
his dauchtcr, logan by savin2. "rhia is II
hard world Tor girls. IL j. iJr thoS. who
are dependent upon their own wit. ani .hc
wnims OF the world, ana the preferences Of
human favor, but those who take thc
Etcrna! God Tor their portion not later than
fifteen years Of age, and that - ten years
later than it ought 10 be, will find tina:
while Martin Luther's letter Of condolences