The Iola register., 1895-11-22
To YOUNG WOMEN.
Companion Sermon to advice to
Young Men"
DIR. Ta'mase Discourses on a Timely sub
ject-He Has hut LiStIe Use for the
New Woman-The True WOB-
ans Mission.

i ne subject OF the latest sermon bV
Rev. T. De Witt Talmage at Washing
ton was "A Word to the Young Wom-
en-" and was in response To the follow
ing letter from Cincinnati. O. signed
by ''Siv Young Women"
Reverend Sir:-You delivered a discourse in
answer to a letter from six young men at Fay
ette, o. requesting YOU 10 preach a sermon on
Advice 10 Young Men Are we justified in
asking you 20 preach a sermon on Advice to
Young Women:'
Taking this letter for a text DIR. Tai
mage said:
Christ, who took His text from
flock of birds flying overhead. saying:
Behold the fowls of the air" and
from the flowers in the valley. saying:
Consider the lilies of the field" and
from the clucling of a barnyard fowl,
saying: As a hen gathereth her
chickens under her wing" and from a
crystal of salt picked up by the road
side, saying: salt is good, will grant
us a blessing if, instead of taking a
text from the Bible. l 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 Fran
cisco, London, Edin borough, and from
the ends of the earth, 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 sermon On
Advice to Young Women"
1t is more important that the pulpit
ha hoo I'll af chic
when we are having such an illimit-
able discussion 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 boXing-glove and football and
pugilistic encounter will characterize
her. Another theory is that she wild
superintend ballot boxes, sit in con-
gressional 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 vulgarism posi-
lively horrific. Another theory is that
she will be so esthetic that broom
handle and rolling pin and coal scuttle
will be pictorialiZed with tints from
soft skies or suggestions of Rem brandt
and Raphael.
Heaven deliver the church and the
world from any one of these styles of
new woman! She viii never come ]
have so much faith in the evangelistic
triuH4oh and in the progress of all
in ho 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-
1 will tell you who the new woman
will be. 1t 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. Christian, all
influential being that your mother and
mine was. OF that kind of woman
was Christian Eddy. who. talking 10 q
man who was 81 much of an un be-
lever he had named his two children
Voltaire and Tom Paine. nevertheless
saw him converted, he breaking down
with emotion as he said to her: Il can
not stand you, you talk like nv
mother" and telling the story of
his conversion to twelve companions
who had been blatant oppoSers of reli-
gion. thev asked her to come and see
them also. and tell them of Christ. and
3 and a n
the others greatly changed. and the
leader of the band departing for
Heaven. shouted: Joyful! joyful,
Jovfulr- If YOU know any better style
of woman than that. where is she?
The world cannot improve on that
kind The new woman may nave
more knowledge. because she viii have
more books. but she Will have no more
common sense than that which tried
to manage and discipline and educate
rs. and did as well as she could with
such uuprOmising material
But 4 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 very
best attitude for everything that
comes. New ways Of vOyaging by sea,
new ways of travelling by land, new
wavs of threshing the harvests, new
vays of printing books, and the patent
office is enough to enchant man who
has mechanical ingenuity and knows
good deal of levers and wheels, and we
hardly do anything as it used to be
done. invention after invention inven-
tion on top of invention.
But in the matter of getting right
with God there has not been an inven-
sicr for six thousand 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
,sed when he emphasized by an in
ward stroke OF both hands. and the
same faith in Christ that Paul sug'
pesfed TO the jailer the night the peni-
tentiarv broke down. And that Is the
reason have more confidence in 1t
All who through Christ earnestly tried
to oct right with God. are right, and
always will be right That gives the
Young woman who gets that position
superiority over all rivalries-
soslc IN annrpcIar6 her