Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1895-11-21

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Strong PcroratIon.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.-Rev. DIR. Tai
mage took for the subject of today's ser
mon "a Word With Women" the text
Tor the occasion. heing the following letter
received by the distinguished preacher:
REVEREND SIR-You delivered discourse In
answer to a letter from six young men Of Fay
ette, o., requesting you to preach n sermon on
"Advice to Young Men," Are we justified in
asking you to preach a sermon on "Advice to
Young Women"
LETTER SIGNED BY SIX YOUNG woMRs.
Christ, who took his text from a flock
of birds flying overhead, taying, Behold
the fowls of the air." and from the flow
ers in the valley, saying Consider the
lilies of the field, and from the cluoking
of barnyard fowl, saying, "As a hen
gathereth her chickens under her wing"
and from crystal of salt picked up by the
roadside, saying, "Salt is good" will
grant us blessing, If, instead of taking a
text from the Bible, 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, Edin-
burgh and from the ends of the Garth, all
implying that having some months ago
preached the sermon on advice to Young
Men," l could not, without neglect OF
| duty, refuse to preach a sermon on "Ad-
vice 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 discus
sion about what Is called the "new wom-
an, " as though some new creature of God
| had arrived on earth or were about to ar
rive. One theory is that she will be an
athlete and boxing glove and football and
pugilistic encounter will characterize her.
| Another theory is that she will superin-
tend ballot boxes, sit in congressional hall
and through improved politics bring the
millennium by the evil she will extirpate
and the good she will install. Another
theory is that she will adopt masculine at
tire and make sacred vulgorism positive
ly horriflc. Another theory is that she
will be so aesthetic that broom handle and
rolling pin and coal scuttlo will be picto-
rialized with tints from soft skies or sug-
gestions of Rembrandt and Raphael.
The New Woman.
Heaven deliver the church and the world
from any one of these styles of new wom-
an! 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 prophosy 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 might
est force for its down thrust. will tel
YOU who the new woman will be. She
will be the good woman of all the ages
past. Here and there difference of attire
as the temporary custom may command
but the same good, honest, lovely, Chris
tian, all influential being that your moth
er and mine was OF that kind of woman
was Christian Eddy who, talking to mar
who was so much Of an unbeliever he hat
: named his two children Voltaire and Ton
r Paine, nevertheless saw him converted, HI
breaking down with emotion as he said tt
: her: ~ cannot stand you. You talk lik
my mother" And telling the story of hi
= conversion to 12 companions who had beei
blatant opposers Of religion they asked he
to come and see them also and tell them o
Christ, and four of them were converted
and all the others greatly changed, and tn
| louueE Ol bn6 ucpoEuihS Ava AOos'Sn
shouted: "Joyfull Joyful! Joyfu1!'
If you know any better style OF woma
! than that, where is sheP The world can
not improve on that kind. The ney
woman may have more knowledge, be
cause she will have more books, but sh
will have no more common sense tina
that which tried to manage and disciplin
and educate lis and did as we'll as sh
, could with such unpromising material
She may have more health than the won
an of other days, for the sewing machin
and the sanitary regulations and added IL
telligence on the subjects of diet, ventils
ton and exercise and rescue from man
forms of drudgery may allow her MOI
longevity, but she will have the sam
characteristics which God gave her in pa
adise, with the exception of the nervor
shock and moral jolt of the fall she g
that day when not noticing where 81
stepped she looked up into the branch'
of the fruit tree.
, But must be specific. This letter b
D, fore me wants advice to young women.
The First Need.
Advice the first: Get your soul rigl
J. with God and you will be in the best att
~ tude for everything that comes. Ne
ways of voyaging by sea, new ways
a travelling by land, new ways of thrashir
the harvests, new ways of printing books.
and the patent office is enough to enchal
a man who has mechanical ingenuity al
knows a good deal of levers and wheels
: and we hardly do anything as it used
Il be done; invention after invention, i
yention on top of invention. But in Il
| - ,,sr.If xrrtfh nH
has not been an invention for 5000 yeaI
1t is on the same line of repentance tn
David exercised about his sins, and t
same old style of prayer that the public'
used when he emphasized 1T by an inwa
stroke Of both hands, and the same fai
in Christ that Paul suggested to the Jail
the night the penitentiary broke down.
Ave. that is the reason have more co
! fidence in 1t. 1t has been tried by me
millions than dare to state lest Col
n far short of the brilliant facts. All W
through Christ earnestly tried to get rig
with God are right and always will
- right. That gives the young woman W
gets that position superiority over all riv
, ries, all jealousies, all misfortunes,
Va health failings all social disasters and
- the combined troubles of so years If s
ten shall live to be an octogenarian. If
'n0 world fails to appreciate her, she sa.
"God loves me, the angels in heaven
- in sympathy with me- and can afford
M be patient until the day when the imper
4 chariot shall wheel to my door to take
up to my coronation" If health goes, {
4 says, 81 can endure the present distre
4 for am on the way to climate the fl
breath of which will make me proof agai
even the slightest discomfort. J" If she
"A iostled with perturbations of social Il
she can say. sWell. when hnoin INV
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