The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1895-11-20

a basis for his remarks in his most re-
cent sermon the following letter:
Cincinnati, o.
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 to
Young Men," Are we justified in ask
ing you to preach sermon on "Advice
to Young Women?"
Signed by Six Young Women.
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: "Con-
slider the lilies of the field" and from
the clucl1ing of barnyard fowl, say
ing: "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 1 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 to
Young Men," could not, without neg
lcct of duty, refuse to preach sermon
on advice to Young Women" The
new woman.
1t is the more important that the
pulpit be heard on this subject at this
time when we are having such an il
limitable 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 pu-
gilistic encounter will characterize her.
Another theory is that she will super
intend the ballot boxes, sit in congress
sional hall, and through improved pol
itics bring the millenni ium by the evil
she will extirpate and the good she will
install. Another theory is that she
will adopt masculine attire and make
sacred vulgarianism positively hor-
rife. Another theory is that she will
be so esthetic that broom-handle, roll
ing-pin and coal-scuttle will be pic
torialized with tints from soft skies OF
suggestions of Rembrandt and Raphael.
Heaven deliver the church and the
world from any one of these styles Of
new women. She will never come.
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triumph and in the progress of al
things in the right direction, that
prophesy that style of new woman vii
never arrive. She would hand ovel
this world to diabolism, and from be
ing, as she is now, the mightiest agency
for the worlds uplifting, she would b,
the mightiest force for it's downthrust
l will tell you who the new woman
will be. 1t will be the good woman o
all the ages past. Here and there ;
difference of attire as the tcmporar,
custom may command, but the SAM
good, honest, lovely, Christian, all
influential being that your mother anC
mine was. Of that kind of woman wa
Christian Eddy, who, talking to maj
who was so much OF an unbeliever tina
he had named his two children Vol
taire and Tom Paine, nevertheless say
him converted, he breaking down wit
emotion as he said to her: II canno
stand you, yo u talk like my mother,
and telling the story of his CONVEX
sion to twelve compani ons who ha
been blatant opposers of religion, the
asked her to come and see them also
and tell them of Christ, and four c
them were converted, and all the other
. greatly changed, and the leader OF tn
band departing for heaven, shouted
Joyful! Joyful! Joyful" If you knoV
any better style of woman than thai
where is she? The world cannot in
prove on that kind. The new woma
may have more knowledge, becaus
she will have more books, but she vii
have no more common sense than sh
who tried to manage and disciplin
and educate us, and did as well as sh
could with such unpromising materia
She may have more health than tn
woman of other days, for the SEWN
machine and the sanitary regulation
and added intelligence on the subject
of diet, ventilation, and exercise, an
rescue from many forms of drudger
may allow her more longevity, but sh
will have the same characteristic
which God gave her in paradise, wit
the exception of the nervous shock an
moral jolt of the fall she got that da
when, not noticing where she steppe'
she looked up into the branches of tt
fruit tree.
But must be specific This lett'
before me wants advice to young w
men.
Advice the first: Get your soul rigl
with God and you will be in the be
attitude for everything that come
New ways of voyaging by sea, ne
ways of travelling by land, new wa,
of threshing the harvests, new ways
printing books, and the patent office
enough to enchant man who has m
chanical ingenuity and knows goo
uedl OI leVerS anu WhSCls, anu NO h"i
ly do anything as it used to be done; i
vention after invention, invention {
top of invention. But in the matter
getting right with God there has n
been an invention for six thousaI
years. 1t is on the same line of repen
ance that David exercised about h
sins, and the same old style of prayC
that the publican used when he er
phasized it by an inward stroke of bo
: hands, and the same faith in Chri
that Paul suggested to the jailer Il
: night the penitentiary broke dow
Aye, that is the reason / have mo
confidence in it. 1t has been tried
more millions than / dare to state lie
r oa,,,o fa,. ebort of the brilliant fact