The Penn's Grove record., 1895-11-22
RET. DR.. TaLuaGE.
The Eminent Divine's Sunday
Sermon.
Subject: GA Word with Women"

The text was the following letter ~rocei7et
by DIR. Talmage.
Reverend sir-You delivered a discours
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 a sermon OF
Advice to Young Women!
"LETTER SIGNED BY SIX YOUNG WOMEN"
Christ, who took His text from a flock Of
birds flying overhead. saying. "Beho'd tho
fowls of the air" and from the flowers in the
valley. saying, "Consider the lilies of the
field" and from the lucking Of a BARNARD
fowl. saying. GAS a hen gathered her chick
ems under her wing" and from a crystal Of
salt picked up by the roadside. saying. "Salt
ia good" will grant us a blessing II, instead
of taking a text from the Bible, 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. London, Edinburgh
and from the ends OF the earth, all implying
that, having some months & preached the
sermon on "Advice 10 Young Men" I could
not, without neglect OF duty, refuse to
preach a sermon on "Advice to Young Wo.
men,"
1t is the more important that the pulpit b
heard on this subject at this time when we
are having such an illimitable discussion
about what is called the new woman, as
thOuAh WIN NOV SLSANhho vi NOh hhu tAE
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
the evil she will extirpate and the good she
will install. Another theory is THAT she will
adopt masculine attire and make sacred a
vulgarianism positively horrilc. Another
theory is that she will be 80 aesthetic that
broom handle and rolling pin and coal scut.
tie will 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 womani
! She will never come. l have so much faith
in the evangelistic triumph and in the pro-
gress OF all things in the right direction that
l prophesy that style Of new woman will
never arrive. She would hand over this
world to diabolism, and from being. as she ID
now. the mightiest agency for the worlds
uplifting, she would be the mightiest force
| for its downthrusr.
will tell you who the new woman win
be. It will be the good woman of all the
ages past. Here aud there q difference OF
attire, as the temporary custom may COM
mand. but the same good. honest, lovely,
| Christian. all influential being that your
mother and mine was. or that kin of wo-
mar was Christian Eddy, who. talking TO a
man 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, 81 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, they asked
her to come and see them also and tell them
of Christ. and four of them were converted,
and all the others greatly changed, and the
leader of the band, departing for heaven.
shouted. "Joyful! Joyful! Joyfull' If you
know any better style OF woman than that.
where is she2 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 edu-
/ cate us, and did as well as she could
with such u~npromising material. She may
have more health than the woman of other
days, for the sewing machine and the SAM.
tary regulations and added intelligence on
the subjects of diet, ventilation and exercise
and rescue from many forms of drudgery
\ may allow her more longevity, but she will
have the same characteristics which God
gave her in paradise, with the exception o.
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 be 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 IL
enough TO enchant a man who has mechani-
sal ingenuity and knows q good deal OF
levers and wheels-and we hardly do any
| thing as 1t 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
ame old style Of prayer that the publican
used when he emphasized it by an inward
stroke Of both hands, and the same faith in
Christ that Paul suggested to the jailer the
night the penitentiary broke down. Aye,
that is the reason I have more confidence in
1t. 1t has been tried by more millions than
l dare to state lest 1 come far short OF the
brilliant facts. All who through Christ earn
estly tried to get right with God are right
and always will be right. That gives the
young who gets that position superi.
ority over all rivalries, all jealousies, all
misfortunes. all health failiugs, all social
disasters and all the combined troubles OF
eighty years, II she shall live to be an octo-
genarian. If the world fails to appreciate
her, she says. "God loves me, the angels in
heaven are in sympathy with me, and l can
afford to be patient until the day when the
Imperial chariot shall wheel to my door to
take me up to my coronation II health
goes, she says, ~ can endure the present
distress. for I I'M on the way to a climate
the first breath Of which will make me proof
against even the slightest discomfort" II
she be jostled with Derturbations OF social
life, she can say. swell, when I begin my
life among the thrones Of HEAVIER and the
kings and queens unto God shall be my as
s~ociates, it will not make much difference
who on earth forgot me when the invitations
to 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 a
hard world for girls" 1t is for those who
are dependent upon their own wits, and the
whims OF the world, and the preferences oil
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 1t ought to be, will find that
while Martin Luther's letter OF coincidence
was true in regard to many, il not most, with
respect to those who have the wisdom and
prom ptitude and the earnestness to get
right with God, 1 declare that this is a good
world for girls.
huNlCb tuO oCCOhhE AhhO u q "
religion to take care OF your physical health
/ do not wonder that the Greeks deiiet
health and hailed Hygeia as u goddess J
rejoice that there have been so many modes
of maintaining and restoring young wo
manly health invented into our time. The,
may have been known a long time back, bu
they have been popularized in our day
lawn tennis, croquet and golf and thu
bicycle. 1t always seemed strange ant
inserutable that our human race should b
so slow of locomotion. when creatures o
less importance have powers OF velocity
wing OF bird or foot of antelope, leavint
us far behind, and while 1t seems so i'm
portant that We be in many places in a shor
! while we were weighed down with ineapaci
ties, and most men II they run a mile ar
exhausted or dead from the exhaustion. i
wa left until the last decade OF the nine
eentn century 10 give the speed which Va
90 whirling through all our cities and alon
bs country roads, AMI with that speel
ZONES health. The woman of the next de.
ade will be healthier than at any time since
he world was created, while the invalidism
which has so often characterized woman
food will pass over to manhood. which BY
Is posture on the wheel is coming to curved
nina and sramnsd chest auda dsformity foi