Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-11-29
REV. DR. TALMAGE.
The Eminent Washington pivine's
Sunday Sermon.
Subject. "Advice to Young women

The text was the following letter received
! by DR.. Tamage:
"Reverend Sir-You delivered discourse
in answer to a letter from six young men Of
Fayette o., requesting you TO preach SER
mon on advice to Young Men, Are we
justified in asking you to preach sermon on
Advice to Young Women?
"LETTER SIGNED BY SIX YoUYG WOMEN.
Christ. who took His text from r flock of
birds flying overhead. saying. "Beho'd the
fowls of the air. and from the flowers in the
| valley, saving, "Conslder the lilies of the
field" and from the clucking of a BARNARD
fowl saying. Gas hen gathered her chick-
ems under her wing" and from a crystal Of
salt picked up by the roadside saying. "Sat
| is good, ;" will grant us blessing If, instead
| of taking text from the Bible, take for my
| text this letter from Cincinnati. which is only
one of many letters which I havs received
from young women in Nav York. New
Orleans, San Francisco. London. Edinburgh
and from the ends Of the earth. all implying
that having some mon hs ago preached the
sermon on "Advice TO Young Men," could
not, without neglect OF duty. refuse to
preach sermon on "Advice to Young Wo-
men,"
It is the more important that the pulpit be
heard on this subject at this time when we
are having such an Ilimita5le discussion
about what Is called the new woman, rs
! though some new creature of God had ar
rived on earth or were about to arrive. One
theory is that she will be an athlete and box.
Ing glove and football and pugilistic en-
counter will characterize her. Another
theory is that she will superintend ballot
boxes. sit in Congressional hall and. through
improved politics. bring the millennium by
| ;Iot,, 70 nd Lto 81,
will install. Another theory is that she will
adopt masculine attire and make sacred a
vulgaranism positively horrifc Another
theory is that she will be so aesthetic that
broom handle and rolling pin and coal scut-
tie will be pietorialized with tints from soft
skies or suggestions Of Rembrandt and
R1Dhael.
Heaven deliver the church and the world
from any one of these styles OF new woman
She will never come. / have so much faith
in the evangeistic triumph and in the pro-
gress of all things in the right direction that
prophesy that style of new woman will
never arrive. She would hand over this
world to diabolism, and from being, as she is
now. the mightiest agency for the world s
uplifting she would be the mightest force
for its downthrust.
l will tell you who the new woman will
be, It will be the good woman of all the
ages past. Here and there differen of
attire, as the temp rary custom may COM
mand. but the same good, honest lovely
Christian. all influential being that your
| mother and mine was. OF that kind of wO-
man was Christian Eddy, who. talking to a
man who was so much of an unbeiever he
had named his two children Yotaire and
Tom Paine. nevertheless saw him converted.
| he breaking down with emotion as he said
10 her. IL cannot stand you. you talk like
my mother" AMI telling the story Of his
conversion to twelve companions who had
been blatant opposers of religion, they asked
her to come and see them also and tell them
of Christ. and four OF them were converted,
aud all the others greatly changed. and the
leader Of the band. departing for heaven.
shouted: Joyful Joyful Joyful If you
know any better style Of woman than that.
where is she? The world cannot improve
on that kind. The new woman may have
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 we'll as she could
with such unpromising material. She may
bave more health than the woman Of other
days, for the sewing machine and the saDi-
tary regulations and added intelligence on
the subjects Of diet. ventilation and exercise
may allow her more longevity, but she will
have the same characteristics which God
gave her in paradise. with the 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 the branches
of the fruit tree.
But 1 must be specific. This letter before
me wants advice to young women.
Advice the first: Get your soul right with
God and you will oe in the best attitude for
everything that comes. New ways of vOyag
ing by sea, new ways of travelling by land
new Ways of thrashing the harvest. new ways
of printing books-and the patent office is
enough 10 enchant a man who has mechani-
cal ingenuity and knows u good deal of
| levers and whees-and we hardly do any
thing as it used to be done: invention after
invention, invention on top of invention.
But in the matter of getting right with God
there has not been an invention for 5000
years. 1t is on the same line of repentance
that David exercised about his sins, and the
same old style of prayer that the publican
used when he emphasized 1t by an inward
stroke of both hands, and the same faith in
Christ that Paul suggested to the iailer the
night the penitentiary broke down. Aye,
that is the reason have more confidence in
t. 1t has been tried by more millions than
[ dare to state lest l come far short Of the
brilliant facts. All who through Christ earn-
sstly tried to get right with God are right
and always win be right. That gives the
young woman who gets that position superb
ority over all rivaries, all iea'ousies, all
misfortunes. all health failings, all social
disasters and all the combined troubles of
eighty years, if she shall live to be an octo-
genarian. If the word fails 10 appreciate
her. she says, "God loves me, the angels in
heaven are In sympathy with me, and can
afford to be patient until the day when the
imperial chariot shall wheel to my door to
lake me up to my coronation II health
goes. she says, II can endure the present
distress, for am on the way to n climate
the first breath of which will make me proof
against even the slightest discomfort" II
she be jostled with perturbations OF social
life, she can say. "Well when L begin my
life among the thrones Of heaven and the
kings and queens unto God shall be my as
sociates, it will not make much difference
who Oh earth forgot me when the invitations
10 that reception were made out" All right
with God. you are all right with everything.
Martin Luther writing a letter of con-
dolence to one OF his friends who had lost
his daughter, began by saying, This is
hard world for girls. 1t is for those who
are dependent upon their own wits, and the
whims of the world, and the preferences Of
human favor, but those who take the
Eternal God for their portion not later than
fifteen years of age, and that is ten years
later than it ought to be, Will find that
while Martin LutherS letter of coincidence
was true in regard to many, if NOS most, with
respect to those who have the wisdom and
prom ptitude and the earnsstnsss to get
right with God, 1 declare that this is a good
world for girls.
Advice the second: Make it matter of
religion to take care of your physical health.
do not wonder that the Greeks deife1
health and hailed Hygeia as a goddess.