Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-12-05
ADVICE TO GIRLS.
DR.. Talmage's Views on the New
Woman.
Take Care of Your Soul First, Then Care
for Your BOdy-Listen to the Advice
of Mother. She Is Your Best
Earthly Friend.

a basis for his remarks in his most re.
cent sermon the following letter:
Cincinnati, 0.
Reverend Sir: You delivered dis.
course in answer to letter from six
Young men of Fayette, O., requesting
YOU to preach a sermon on advice t.,
Young Men" Are we justified in ask
Jag you to preach sermon on advice
TO Young Women?"
Signed by Six Young Women
Christ, who took His text from q
Aock of birds flying overhead, saying,
"Behold the fowls of the air, and fron
the flowers in the valley, saying: Con
7ider the lilies of the field" and from
the clucking of a barnyard fowl, say
ing: Gas 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 text from the
Bible, take for my text this letter
from Cincinnati, which is only one o.
many letters which l have received
from young women in New York, New
Orleans, San Francisco. London, Edin
burg, and from the ends Of the earth
all implying that having some months
ago preached sermon on advice tc
Young Men," l could not, without neg.
leet of duty, refuse to preach a sermon
on advice to Young Women" The
new woman.
1t is the more important that the
pulpit be heard on this subject at tn
time when we are having such an H.
Irritable discussion about what is
called the New Woman" as though
some new creature of God had arrived
on earth, or were about to arrive Ore
theory is that she will be an athlete,
and boxing glove and football and pu
gilistic encounter will characterize her
Another theory is that she will super.
intend the ballot boxes. sit in con res
sional hall and through improved pol
itics bring the mi..enn ium by the evi
she will extirpate and the good she wi
install. Another theory is that sh'
will adopt masculine attire and make
sacred a vulgarianism positively hor.
rife Another theory is that she wi
be SO esthetic that broom-bandle roll
ing-p n and Goa -scuttle will be pic.
torialized with tints from soft skies on
suggestions of Rembrandt and Rap laei
Heaven deliver the church and the
world from any one of these styles o
new women. She will never come. u
have 50 much faith in the evangclistit
triumph and in the progress of al
things in the right direction. that
prophesy that style of new woman wi
never arrive She would hand over
this world to diabolism, and from be
ing, as she is now, the mightiest agency
for the worlds upli ting, she would b
the might est force for it's down thrust
will tell YOU who the new woman
will be. 1t viii be the good woman o
all the ages past. Here and there Il
difference of attire. as the temporary
custom may command, but the sam
good, honest, lovely, Christian, all
influential being that your mother and
mine was OF that kind of woman was
Christian Eddy, who, talking to mar
who was so much of an unbeliever tina
he had named his two children Vol
taire and Tom Paine, nevertheless saw
him converted, he breaking down with
emotion as he said to her: 81 cannot
stand you, yo IL talk like my mother,
and telling the story of his CONVEX
son to twelve compani ons who had
been b atant opposers of religion, they
asked her tn Gonna and Saa than also
and tell them Of Christ, and four 0
them were converted, and all the others
greatly changed, and the leader 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 i'm
prove on that kind The new woman
may have more knowledge, because
she will have more books, but she will |
nave no more common sense than she
VINO tried to manage and disc.plin
and educate us, and did as well as she
could with such unpromising mater al.
She may have more health than the
woman of other days, for the sewing
machine and the sanitary regulations
and added intelligence on the subject.
OF diet, ventilation, and exercise, an6
rescue from many forms Of drudgery
may allow her more longevity, but sh
Will have the same characteristic
winch God gave her in paradise, with
The exception of the nervous shock anG
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
oeiore me wants advice to young wo-
men.
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, new way
Vi threshing the harvests. new ways
printing books, and the patent Office is
enough to enchant a man who has me-
chanlcal ingenuity and knows goot
ueal OF levers and wheels, and we hard
" 40 anything as it used to be done; in
Ventlon after invention, invention on
'op OF invention. But in the matter OF
getting right with God there has not
'eeh an invention for six thousand
years 1t is on the same line of repent