Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1895-11-22
A SERMON FOR WOMEN
REV. DR.. TALMAGE DESCRIBES The
NEW WOMAN

he has Faith In Rvsngelistio Triumph
and Progress In the aight Direction.
This rs coed Herld Ter GirIs-Moth-
CTS Too ofsea TOreottsn.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1f.--Rsv. Dr. Tai
mage took for the Eubjsct Of today's SER
mon "a Eerd VITA Women, the text
for the coeahSn haing the following let
ter received By ne distinguished preach
| or:
! REvEHErD srR--Ysu delivered discourse
n answer to iotts4 from Sx young men Of
| FEystee. o., requesting Tou 10 preach a ser
hndr On 8AaFioe ~ Fsnzs Men" Ara we iusti
ned IN seh4sg yea ~ FTSash = ssrnen sn "Ad
vieS 70 Yong Women
bzEsea ersssEB ny erx FosNs ToMEE.
Omist whe teek hts tsrt from a flock
of birds Ayisg overhead, saying, "Be-
hold tho fCvlu sf the siF." and from the
howsrs N me vsIlsy, saying, Consider
she nlss ef the hsld," sad from the
eiuoktBg Of a barnysrd fowl, saying,
."As = ksn gsthsrsth hsr chickens under
her wing" and from crystal Of salt
| picked up by fhs roadside, saying, "6alt
Is good, win grant us 8 blessing If, IN
stsad Of taking text from the Bible, I
take foE my ts1t this letter from Gin
cinnati, which is only one Of many let
! ters which have received from young
wemsn IN New York, New Orleans. San
Franeiseo, London, Edinburgh. and from
the ends Of the earth, all implying that,
having some months sgo preached the
sermon on advice 10 Young Men" I
seuld not without neglect Of duty, re-
fuse te preach a sermon on Advice to
Young Women"
II Is the more important that the pull
pit be heard on this subject at this time
when We are having such an illimissble
discussion about what Ia called the now
woman, as though some new creature Of
God had arrived on earth or were about
to arrive One theory ia that she will
be an athlete, and boxing glove and
football and pugilistic encountey will
chsrncts1ss her. Another theory is that
she will ruperintend ballot boxes, ait in
congressional hall and through improved
politics bring the millennium by the
evil she will sxtirpste and the good she
will INSTALL Another theory Is that she
will adopt masculine attire and make
sacred a vulgArisnism poEitively horrifc.
Another theory ia that she will be so
nsthetic that broom handle and rolling
pin and coal scHttle Will be pictorislized
with tints from soft skies on suggestions
ef Rembrandt and Raphael.
Tho New Woman VIII BE Good.
Heaven deliver the church and the
world from any one Of these styles Of
new woman She will never come. l
have so much faith IN the svanselistic
triumph and in the progress Of all things
IN the right direction that prophesy
that style Of new woman will never ar
Tive. She would hand over this world to
aiaboliEla, and from being, as she is
now, the mightisst agency for the
worlds uplifting, she would be the
mightiest force for its downthrssh
will tll yUu who the new woman
will b0 Il Will be the good woman Of
all the ages pert Here and there = diff
ference of attire, az the temporary cas-
tenn may command, bat the same good,
hensst, lovely, Christian, all Influential
being that youz mother and mine was.
OF that hind Of woman was Christian
Eddy, who. talking 10 man whs was
30 much Of an unbsliever he had named
his two children YeltaiTs and Tom Paine
nevertheless sav him converted, he
breaiing down with sHetion a. he said
to hsr, Il oannot stand you, you talk
hike ny mother" And telling the story
Of his conversion 10 IA companions who
had been blataEt SppOsess Of religion
Nfiey asked her 10 come Gnd see them
also NnA tOll them Of Christ, ana four
of them were sSavsrtsA, and all the 9th
CTS greatly changed, and the isader OF
the bszS. departing FOX heaven, shouted:
"JsytuA 5oyful Jsyful" II you know
Ezy bstts7 RYE Il woman thaH that
where h shei The world saKnot i'm
prove On thst kind The nsw woman
mig Rave more knewledss bssawsc she
with have more books, but she will have
ne more common Esnse than hat which
tried " manage and disiPlize and edu-
sate uA and Gid ~ well 81 she could
with sueh unpFo1nisiRg material shs
mag have more hsalth than the woman
Il ether days fer the sewing machine
and The sanitary regulations End added
Intelligence On the subjects Of dist ven
h1atisa md szereiFe and rsSeue from
many forms q drudgery may allow her
more longevity, bat she win have the
same characteristics which God gave her
IN pauadise, with the exception d tho
nervouz shock and moral 1olt Of the fall
zAse get that day when, not noticing
where sho stepped. she looked up hto
the branches f the fruit tree.
But I must be specific. This latter be-
fore mo wants advice to young women.
Get Right With God.
Advice the first; Get your soul right
with God and you will be in the best
attitude for everything that comes. New
ways Of Voyaging By sea, new ways OF
travelling by land, nav ways OF thrash
ing the harvests, new ways Of printing
bo0ks-and the patent Office is enough to
snchant man who has mechanical In
genuity and knows good deal OF levers
and wheels-and we hardly do anything
as it used to be done invention after
Invention, invention on top OF inven-
ton. But in the matter Of getting right
With God there has not boen an inVsA-
tion 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 it by an inward stroke
ef both hands, and the same faith in
Christ that Paul suggested 10 the iailer
mo night the penitentiary broke down.
Aye, that is the reason have more con-
adence In It. It has been tried by more
millions than l dare to state lest come
for short Of the brilliant facts. All who
through Christ earnestly tried 10 get
rixht with God are right snd always
Win be right That gives tbs young
woman who gets that position superior
NJ over all hvairies, all jealousies, all