Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1895-11-27
REV. DR.. Ta[QRGE.
The Eminent Divine'S Sunday
Sermon.
Subject: CA Word With Women"

SUBJECT: " n w ora with w Omen.
The text was the To- owing letter rHce;Ts
by DR.. Talmage:
Reverend Sir--or delivered disrours
In answer to a Letter fro n 8 X Young men Oi
Fayette, o.. requesting Won 10 prea IN a ser.
mon on advice TO Young Men, Are we
justified in asking YOU to breach a sermon or
advice to Young Women!
'LETTER SIGNED BY SIX YOUNG WoMES."
Christ. who took His text from a flock q,
birds flying overhead. saying. ''Behod the
fowls OF the air. and from the flowers in the
valley. saying, "ConsIier the lilies Of the
field" and from the clucking of a BARNARD
fowl. saying. "As a hen gathered her chick
ems under her wing" anil from a crystal nt
salt picked up bv the roadside. saying '.Sait
is good, will grant us blessing if, instead
of taking text from the Bible, take for nv
text this letter from Cincinnati which is Onlv
one of many letters 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 mon.hs ago prearhe1 the
sermon on ''Advice TO Young Men," could
not. without neglect of duty. refuse to
preach a sermon on "Advice to Young Wo.
men,"
1t is the more important that the pulpit b
heard on this subject at this time when wa
are having such an Illimita5le discussion
though some new creature of God had arl
rived on earth or were about to arrive. One,
theory Is that she will be an athlete. and box
ing glove and football and pugilistic an!
counter 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 a
theory is that she will be so aesthetic that
broom handle and rolling pin and coal scut.
tie will be pictorialized with tints from soft
skies or suggestions of Rembrandt and
Raphael.
Heaven deliver the church and the world
from any one of these STYLES of new woman!
She will never come. I have much faith
in the evangelistic triumph and in the pro-
gress OF all things in the right direction that
l prophesy that style of new woman will
never arrive. She would hand over tnii
world TO diabolism, and from being. as she ID
now. the mightiest agency for the worlds
uplifting, she would be the mightiest force
for its downthrust.
I will tell you who the new woman will
be. 1t will be the good woman of all the
ages past. Here and there a differen of
attire, as the temporary custom may COM
mand. but the same good. honest. lovely,
| Christian, all influential being that your
mother and mine was OF that kind of wo-
| man was Christ ian 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. 81 cannot stand you. you talk like
| my mother" And telling the story of his
| conversion to twelve 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 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 improve
on that kind. The new woman may have
| more knowledge because she will have
| more books, but she will have Nc
more common sense than that which
| tried to manage and discipline and edu-
cate US. and did as well as she could
| with such unpromising material. She may
| have more health than the woman of Other
days, for the sewing machine and the sani
| tary regulations and added intelligence OF
| the subjects of diet ventilation and exercise
| and rescue from many forms of drudgery
| may allow her more longevity. but she will
! have the same characteristics which Co
gave her in paradise. with the exception o
the nervous shock and moral jolt of the fal
she got that day when. not noticing where
| she stepped. she looked up into the branches
| of the fruit tree.
But I 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 best attitude fol
l everything that comes. New ways Of voyag-
ing by sea, new WAYS of travelling by lani.
| new wavs of thrashing the harvest. new way.
| of printing books-and the patent Office il
| enough TO enchant a man who has mechani.
| cal ingenuity and knows a good deal o
| levers and wheels-and we hardly do any
| thing as it used to be done: invention after
| invention, invention on top Of invention
| But in the matter of getting right with God
| there has not been an invention for 6O0t
| 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 of both hands. and the same faith in
| Christ that Paul suggested to the iailer the
| night the penitentiary broke down. Aye
that is the reason 1 have more confidence in
| it. Ii has been tried by more millions than
| dare to state lest come far short of the
brilliant facts. All who through Christ earn.
| estly tried to get right with God are right
and always will be right That gives the
| young woman who gets that position superi.
| Ority over all rivalrieS, all jealousies, al
| misfortunes. all health failings, all social
disasters and all the combined troubles OF
eighty years. if she shall live to be an octo-
genarian. If the world fails to appreciate
| her she SAYS, .'God loves me, the angels in
heaven are in sympathy with me. and 1 can
|
imperial chariot shall wheel to my door tc
take me up to my coronation If health
goes she SAYS. II can endure the present
distress. for I am on the way to climate
the first breath of which will make me proc
against even the slightest discomfort" L
she be jostled with perturbations of social
life, she can say. swell, when begin my
life among the thrones of heaven and the
kings and queens unto God shall be my as
sociates, it will not make much difference
n, -t,av, tt,x-t tfnft.
| to that reception were made out All right
I with God, you are all right with everything
| Martin Luther, writing a letter OF con
| dolence to one of his friends who had los
his daughter, began by saying. This is 1
| hard world for girls" 1t is for those wh'
are dependent upon their own wits, and thu
whims of the world, and the preferences o
| human favor, but those who take thu
Eternal God for their portion not later thar
| fifteen years of age, and that is ten year
! later than it ought to be, will find tina
| while Martin Luther's letter of condolenc
was true IN regard to many, if not most witt
respect to those who have the wisdom an
promptitude and the earnestness to ge
right with God, declare that this is goo
world for girls.
Advice the second. Make it a matter Q
| religion to take care of your physical health
| l do not wonder that the Greeks deifie
, health and hailed Hygeia as goddess.
| rejoice that there have been so many mode
! l MAINTAINING Tt-tpTiuS young We
mani, health invented into our time. The
may have been known long time back, bu
, they have been popularized in our day
lawn tennis, croquet and golf and tn
| bicycle. 1t always seemed strange an
!. inscrutable that our human race should b
so slow of locomotion. when creatures {
. less importance have powers of velocity
, wing of bird or foot of antelope, leavin
us far behind. and while it seems SO in
portant that We be in many places in shol
while we were weighed down with incapac
ties and most men il they run mile al
exhausted or dead from the exhaustion.
| was left until the last decade of the min,
eentn century to give the speed which VA
ee whirling through all our cities and alon
hs country roads, AMI with that speed
oMes health. The woman of the next de.
ade will be healthier than at any time since
he world was created, while the invalidisul
> \ which has often characterized woman
, iood will pass over to manhood. which by