The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1895-11-27

This Is 8. Good World For Girls-Moth-
crs Too or:cn Forgotten.
WASHINGTON, Nov. ,7.-Rev. Dr.. Tai
mage took for the subject of today's SER
mon "A Word With Women,' the text
for lie occasion being the following let
Ter received by the distinguished preach
er:
REVEREND SIR-You delivered 4 discourse
in answer to q letter from six young men Of
Fayettc, O., requesting You to preach { ser
mon on 'Advice to Young Men" Are we juSti-
fed in asking you to preach sermon Oil "Ad-
vice to Young Womcn:'
LETTER SIGNED By SIX IoCSG 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
clucking of a barnyard fowl, saying,
GAS hen gathcreth her chickens under
her wing" and from a crystal Of salt
picked up by the roadside, saying, "Salt
is good, will grant US blessing if, IN
stead of taking text from tie Bible, l
take for my text this letter from Gin
cinnati, which is only enc Of many let
ters which 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 MeD, l
could not, without neglect Of duty, re-
fuse to preach 4 sermon on advice to
Young Women"
1t is tho moro important that the pull
pit be heard On this subject at this time
when we are having such an ill:mitablo
discussion about what is called the new
woman, as though some new creature CT
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 ballet boxes, sit Ill
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 horrlfic.
Another theory is that she will be SO
aesthetic that broom handle and rolling
pin and coal scuttle will lie pictorialized
with tints from soft skies or suggestions
of Rembrandt and Raphael.
The New Woman VIII De Good.
Heaven deliver the church and the
world from any one CT these styles OF
new woman! She will never como. /
have so much faith in the evangellstlc
triumph and i'll 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
diabolisn, and from being, as she IS
now, the mightiest agency fer the
worlds Uplifting, she would be the
nightiest force for its downthrust.
will tell you who the new woman
will be. It Will be the good woman CT
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 al unbeliever he had named
his two children Voltaire and Tom Paine
nevertheless saw him converted, he
breaking down with emotion as he said
10 her, II cannot stand you, you talk
like nv mother" =" And telling the story
of his conversion to II 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 CT
the band, departing for heaven, shouted
joyful! Joyful! JCyful!' If you know
any better style Of woman than that,
where is she? The world cannot i'm
prove Oh 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 sho 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 d:udgery may allow her
more longevity, but she will have the
same characteristics which GCd gave her
in paradise, with the exception of the
nervous shock and moral jolt CT the tal!
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 tc
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 invens
tion. But il the matter Of getting right
with God there has net been al inven-
ton for G,000 years. 1t is Oh 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 al inward stroke
of both hands, and the same faith III
Christ that Paul suggested to the Jaller
the night the penitentiary broke down,
Ave, that is the reason have more con-
fideDce 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
woman who gets that position superior
ity over ali rivalries, all jealousleS, al
misfortunes, all health faiIines, all So
e;o1 I;soc+nrc and all the combined