The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1895-11-22
A SERMON ,)R WOMEN
rev. DR.. TALMAGE DESCRIBES THE
NEW WOMAN.

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This Is a Good World For Girls-Moth.
ers Too Often Forgotten.
WASHINGTON, Nov 17.-Rev. DIR. Tai.
mage took for the subject of today's SER
mon IA Word With Women" the text
for the occasion being the following let
ter received by the distinguished preach
or: t5 ovtV= tu
REVEREND SIR-You delivered discourse
IN answer to letter from six young men OF
Fayette, o., requesting you to preach ser
mon on "Advice to Young Men" Are we justi
Aed in asking you to preach a sermon on "Ad
vice to Young Womenf"
LETTER SIGNED BY SIX YOUNG WOMEN.
Christ, who took his text from flock
of birds flying overhead, saying, "Be-
hold the fowls Of the air." and from the
flowers in the valley, saying, Consider
the lilies Of the field" and from the
checking of barnyard fowl, saying,
''As hen gathereth her chickens under
her wing" and from crystal OF salt
picked up by the roadside, saying, "Salt
Is good, will grant us a blessing if, in
stead of taking text from the Bible, !
take for my text this letter from Gin
cinnati, which is only one of many let
ters 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 ago preached the
sermon on advice to Young Men, l
could not, without neglect Of duty, re-
fuse to preach sermon on advice to
Young Women"
1t is the more important that the pull
pit be heard on this subject at this time
when we are having such an illimitable
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 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 vulgarianism positively horrific.
Another theory is that she will be- so
aesthetic that broom handle and rolling
pin and coal scuttle will be pictorialized
with tints from soft skies or suggestions
of Rembrandt and Raphael.
The New Woman Will BE Good.
Heaven deliver the church and the
world from any one of these styles Of
new woman! She will never come. q l
have SO much faith in the evangelistic
triumph and in the progress OF all things
in the right direction that / prophesy
that style of new woman will never ar
rive. 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.
will tell you who the new woman
will be. 1t will be the good woman of
all the ages past. Here and there diff
ference of attire, as the temporary Gus
tom 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 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. II cannot stand you, you talk
like my mother. " And telling the story
of his conversion to 10 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 9th
ers 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 have
no more common sense than that which
tried to manage and discipline and edu-
cate us, and did as we'll as she could
with such unpromising material. She
may have more health than the woman
of other days, for the sewing machine
and the sanitary regulations and added
intelligence ON the subjects of diet, ven
tilation 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 of 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 must be specific. This letter be-
fore me 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, new ways of thrash
ing the harvests, new ways of printing
books-and the patent office is enough to
enchant man who has mechanical in
genuity and knows a 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 been an inven-
ton 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
ha emnhasizpd il nv an inward stroke