Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1895-11-21


WAsH1NGToN, Nov. FREY. DR.. Tai
mage took for tho subject OF today's ser
mon "a Word With Women the tcxt
for the occasion being the following letter
received by the distinguished preacher:
REVEREND s1R-You delivered discoursein
answer to a letter from six young men of Fay
cite, O., requesting you TO preach sermon on
advice TO Young Mon Are We justified In
asking you to preach "a sermon on "Advicc to
Young WomcnY'
LETTER SIGNED by SIX NoyNG WOMEN.
Christ, who took his text from flock
of birds flying overhead, saying, "Behold
the fowls Of the airl" ana from the flow
ers in the valley, saying Consider Tire
lilies Of the field " and from tho cluckiup
of barnyard fowl saying, "As n hen
rathcrcth her chickens uudor her wing
and from q crystal Of salt picked up by the
roadside, saying "SalJ rs good, wil
grant us blessing, IT, instead Of taking a
text from the Bible, | take for my text
this letter from Cincinnati, which Is only
one Of many letters which have received
from Young wcnc, in New York. Now
Orleans, San Francisco London, Edin-
brrch and from the ends of the earth, ALI
implying thnt. having some months ago
preached the sermon on "Advicc to Young
Men, l could not, without neglect Of
duty refuse to preach sermon or Adj
vice to Young Women"
1t is the more important that the pulpit
be heard on this subject at this time when
we arc having such an illimitable discus
sion about what is called the now wOm-
an. SO ms though some new creature OF God
had arrived on earth or were about to ar
rive one theory is that she viii be an
athlete and boxing glove and football and
puqtlstic encounter will characterize her.
Another theory is that she will superin-
tend ballot boxes, sit in congressional hail
and through improved politics bring the
millennium by the evil she will oNtirpate
aud the good she will install. Another
theory H. that she will adopt masculine at
tire and make sacred aVulgnrism positive
" homidc Another theory is that she
will be so aesthetic that broom handle and
rolling pin and coal soutle will be picto.
riali1ed with tints from soft skies or suc-
gestions Of Rembrandt and Raphael.
The New Woman.
Heaven deiYer the church and the world
from any ono OF these styles of now WON
an She will never come. ! have so much
faith in the cvangeistic triumph and in the
progress of all things ID the right direction
that | prophesy that style Of now woman
will never arrive. @ho would hand over
this world to diabolism and from being rs
she is now, the mightiest agency for the
worlds uplifting she would be the might
est force for its down thrust. | will tell
you who the new woman will be. She
will be the good woman Of all the ages
past. Here and there difference of attire
as the temporary custom may command,
but the same good honest, lovely, Chris
tian, all influential being that your moth
or and minc 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 Noltaire and Tom
Paine, nevertheless saw him converted, hC
breaking down with emotion as he said tC
her: Il cannot stand you. You talk like
my mother" And telling the story of his
conversion so IL companions who had beer
blatant opposers of religion they asked hcl
TO come and see them also and tell them o
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 can
not improve on that kind. The new
woman may have moro knowledge, be
cause she Will have more books but sh'
will have no more common sense thai
that which tried to manage and discipline
and educate us and did as well as sh
could with such unpromisinR material
She may have more health than the WON
an Of other days for the sewing machine
and the sanitary regulations and added in
telligence on the subjects Of diet, ventila
lion and exercise and rescue from man,
forms Of drudgery may allow her NOR
longevity, but she will have the sam
characteristics which God gave her in par
adise, with the exception of the neryou
shock and moral jolt of the fall she go
that day whom not noticing where sh
stepped she locked up into tho branche
of the fruit tree.
But | must DO specific This letter be
fore me wants advice TO young women
The First Need.
Advice the first: Get your soul RICH
with God, and you will be in the best atti
tudo for everything that comes. NcI
ways Of voyaging by sea- now ways O
travelling by land, new ways Of thrashin
the harvests, new ways of printing books
and the patent Office is enough to cnchan
u man who has mechanical ingenuity an
knows n good deal of levers and wheels
and we hardly do anything as it used {
be done; invention after invention, il
vention on top of invention But in III
matter of getting right with God then
has not been an invention for z, 600 years
1t is on tho same line Of repentance Tia
David exercised about his sins, and III
Same old style OF prayer that the publica
used when he emphasized it by an inwar
stroke Of both hands and the same fait
in Christ that Paul suggested TO the jail,
the night the penitontiary broke down.
Aye, that i the reason I have moro COZ
fdcncc in IT, 1t has been tried by MOI
millions than | dare to state lest | COR
far short Of the brilliant facts All wi
through Christ earnestly tried To- get rigl
with God arc right and alwg 5 will
right That gives the young Ij1nan wi
gots that position superiority cf-rall riya
rics, all joalousies, all m,FJrtunos, a
health failings, all social Disasters and 1.
the combined troubles Of so years if 81
shall live TO be an oCtogenHrian. If II
world fails to appreciate her, she say
God loves me, the angels in heaven a
in sympathy with me- and | can afford
be patient until tho day when the iuperi
chariot shall wheel to my door to take II
up 90 my coronation" II health goes, 81
says, II can endure the present distres
for | am on the way to "A climate the fir
breath Of which will mako mo proof again
even the slightest discomfort. If she
Jostled with perturbations Of social lii
abe can say, We'll, when l begin my Ii
among the thrones Of heaven and the kin
and queens unto God shall be my assoc
ates, it will not make much difference WI
on earth forgot mo when the invitations