The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-11-29
"A WORD WITH WOMEN"
Dr. Talmage Gives Some Timely
Suggestions to the Sex.
xTe Deplores the Advent of the "New
Woman" and Advises Young Wom-
On to Get Close TO God and Re-
spect Their Mothers.

The following discourse by Rev. T
Dewitt Talmage was delivered to hi
Washington congregation in RESPONSE
to the following letter. recently re
eeived. which he used as his texts
CINCINNATI, O-REvEREND SIR: You deliv
erred a discourse in answer TO letter from si'
young men of Fayette. O.. requesting you Il
rreach sermon on advice to Young Men.
mon on advice to Young Women Letter
signed by six young women.l
Christ, who took His text from a
Hock of birds flying overhead. saying:
'.Behold the fowls lof the air." and
from the flowers in the valley, saying:
Consider the lilies of the field" and
from the clucking of barnyard fowl.
Saying: LAS 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 blessing If, instead of
aaking a text from the Bible,
i take for my text this letter
from Cincinnati, which is onlysone of
MANY letters which have received
from young women in New York, New
Orleans, San Francisco, London, Edin-
burgh and from the ends of the earth,
all implying that having some months
Sgo preached the sermon on advice
TO Young Men," l could not, with
out neglect of duty, refuse to preach
sermon on advice to Young Women"
It is the more important that the
pulpit be heard on this subject at this
time when we are having such an IL
iimitable discussion about what is
called the New Woman" as though
sotne 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 character.
lie her Another theory lis that
she will superintend ballot-boxes,
sit in congressional hall, and
through improved politics bring the
DiilIen mum by the evil she will extir
pate and the good she will install. An
other theory is that she will adopt
masculine attire and make sacred a
vulgarianism positively horrific. An
other theory is that she will be so
esthetic that broom handle and roll.
7ug- pin and coal scuttle will be picto-
riaIized with tints from soft skies or
suggestions of Rembrandt and Ra-
phael.
hut 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 |
I'D hot
New ways of voyaging by sea. new
ways of threshing the harvests. new
ways of printing books, and the patent
office is enough to exchant man who |
has mechanical ingenuity and knows
a good deal of 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
six thousand years. It's on the same
line of repentance that David exer-
cised 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 jailer the night the pen
itentiary broke down, Aye, that
Is the reason have more confidence in
It 1t has been tried by more millions
than l dare to state lest come far
short of the brilliant facts All who
through Christ earnestly tried to get
right with God. are right and always
will be right. That gives the young
women who gets that position superb
ority over all rivalries. all zeal
ousies, all misfortunes. all health
failings, all social disasters, and
all the combined troubles of eighty
years. if she shall live to be an
If the world fails to
her, she says: God loves
me. the angels in Heaven are in SYM
patty with me, and 'Ecan afford to be
patient until the day when the impe-
rial chariot shall wheel TO my door to
take me up to my coronation" If
health goes, she says. III can en-
dure the present distress, for
am on the way TO climate
the first breath of which will
make me proof against even the
slightest discomfort" IL she be jostled
with perturbations of social life she
can say: "Well, when l begin my life
the thrones of Heaven and the
kings and queens unto God shall be
my associates, it will not make much
difference who on earth forgot me
when the invitations to that reception
were made out" All right with God
you are all right with everything.
Advice the second: Make it q matter
of religion to take care of your phys
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