The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-18
TALMAGE'S WORD TO WOMEN.
THE ILLuIITABLE DISCUSSION NOW
IN PROGRESS.

The Noted Preacher says the AitcE-
ed New woman OF the Newspa-
pers VIII Never Come and Prays
That Heaven Deliver the Church
and the world From some OF the
styles Mentioned - The Doctors
Idea of the Coming Woman-The
same Good BeiuE of All the Ages
Past. Upon whom the World Can
rot Improve.
Washington, d. c.. Nov. l7--Rev. Dr.
Talmage took for the subject Of to-day
sermon: a Word With Women the
text for the occasion being the follow
ing letter reserved by the distinguished
preacher:
cincinnati. Ohio.-Reverend Sir You
delivered discourse in answer to a let
ter from six young men Of Fayette, o.
requesting you 10 preach sermon on
Advice TO Young Men,. Are we justi-
fed in asking you to preach a sermon on
Advice 10 Young Women Letter
signed by Six Young Women"
Christ, who took his text from a flock
Of birds flying overhead, saying, Be
hold the fowls Of the air and from the
flowers in the valley. saying, Consider
the lilies Of the field" and from the cluck-
ing Of a barn-yard fowl saying, "As a
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 a blessing if, instead
Of taking a text from the Bible I take
for my text this letter from Cincinnati.
which is only one of many letters which
! have received from young women in
New York. New Orleans, San Francisco,
London, Edinboro, and from the ends of
the earth. all implying that having some
months ago preached the sermon on I'D
vice to Young Men" / could not, w.thou,
neglect of duty. refuse to preach a ser
mon on advice to Young Women"
1t is the more important that the pulpit
be heard on this subject at this time when
we are having such an iliimitable dis
cussion about what is called the New
Woman" as though some new creature
of God had arrived on earth, or were
about TO arrive. one theory is that she
will be an athlete, and bOXlng-gloNe and
foot ball and pugillstic encounter viii
characterize her. Another theory is that
she will superintend ballOt-bONes, sit IN
congressional hail. and through improved
politics bring the millennium by the evil
she Will eXtirpate and the good she viii
Install Another theory Is that she VIII
adopt masculine attire and make sacred
a vulgarianism positively horrific. An
other theory is that she viii be so es-
thetic that broom-handle and rolling-pin
and coal scuttle viii be pictOrialiZed
with tints from soft skies or suggestions
OF Rembrandt and Raphael
Heaven deliver the church and the world
from any one Of these styles of new Wo-
mani She will never come. have so much
faith in the eVangelistc triumph and in
the progress of all things in the right d-
rection 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 worlds uplifting she would
be the mightiest force for its downthrust.
/ will tell you who the new woman will
be- II will be the good woman of all the
ages past. Here and there a difference
OF attire as the temporary custom may
demand, but the same good, honest, love
ly Christian, all-infiuential being that
your mother and mine was. OF that kind
of woman was Christian Eddy who. talk
ing to a man who was so much of an I'M
believer he had named his two children
Voltaire and Tom Paine, nevertheless saw
him converted, he breaking down with
emotion as he said to her: u cannot stand
you, you talk ike my mother" and tell
ing the story of his conversion to twelve
companions who had been blatant OPP
posers of religion, they asked her to come
and see them also, and tell them of Christ
and four Of them We're converted. and ali
the others greatly changed, and the lead
er 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
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 educate us
and did as well as she could with such
more health than the woman of other
days, for the sewing machine and sani-
tary regulations and added intelligence on
the subjects OF diet, ventilation and exer-
else, and rescue from many forms Of
drudgery may allow her more longevity
but she will have the same characters
tics 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 must be specific. This letter be-
fore me wants advice to young women.
Advice the first: Get your soul right
with God and you will be in the best at
titude for everything that comes New
ways of voyaging by sea, new ways Of
travelling by land, new ways of thresh-
ing the harVests. new ways of printing
BOOKS, and the patent office is enough
to enchaEt man who has mechanical
ingenuity and knows good deal Of levers
ana Wheeis, and we hardly do anything
as it used to be done; invention after
invention invention on top of invention.
I 5gf IN with the cod matter thor. Of getting
been an invention for 5000 years.
1t is on the same line of repentance that
DdNlu exercised ABOUT his sins, and the
same old style of prayer that the publi-
can used when he emphasized il BY an
Inward stroke of both hands, and the
same faith in Christ that Paul suggested
to the jailer the night the penitentiarv
broke down. Aye, that is the reason /
have more confidence in it. 1t has been
tried by more millions than l dare 10
state lest l come far short of the brill
liant facts. All who through Christ earn
estly tried to get right with God, are
right, and always viii be right That
gives the young woman who gets thai
position superiority over all rivalries. al
Jealousies, all msfortunes all health
failings, all social disasters, and all Tho
combined troubles OF eighty years il
she shall live to be an octogenarian II
the world fails to appreciate her she
says, God loves me, the angels in HEAVIER
are in sympathy with me, and l car
afford to be patient until the day wher
the imperial chariot shall wheel to my
door to take me up to my coronation
If health goes, she says, Il can endure
the present distress, for l am on the way
to a climate the first breath of which
will make me proof against even tn,
slightest discomfort" If she be jostle.
with perturba tions of social life she car
say, well, when / begin my life anon:
the thrones of heaven and the kings ant
queens unto God shall be my associates
II Will not make much difference witt
on earth forgot me when the invitation