The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-01-11
TO YOUNG WOMEN.
Companion Sermon to advice to
Young Men"
Dr. TaImaRe DIscourses On a Timely Sub
1ect-He Has but Little Use for the
New woman-The True WOm-
ans Mission.

II 6dOICCb VI VIC AaeCoS -
Rev. T. De Witt Talmage at Washing.
tcn was ga Word t o the Young Wom-
en-" and was in response to the follow
ing letter from Cincinnati, o., signed
by "Six Young Women"
Reverend Sir:-You delivered a discourse in
answer to O letter from six young men at Fay
cite, O, requesting you to preach q sermon on
advice to Young Men Are we Justified IN
asking you to preach O sermon on advice TO
Young Women?''
Taking this letter for a text DIR. Tai
mage said: q
Christ, who took His text from a
flock of birds flying overhead, saying:
behold 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: "As a 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 a blessing if, instead of taking a
text from the Bible, 1 take for my
text this letter from Cincinnati, which
is only one of many letters which l
have received from young women In
New York, New Orleans, San Fran
cisco, London, Marlborough, and from
the ends of the earth. all Implying
that having some months ago preached
the ermon on advice to Young
Men," 1 could not, without neglect of
duty, refuse to preach a sermon on
advice to Young Women"
1t IL more important hat the pulpit
be heard on this subject at this time.
when we are having such an illimit-
able 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 b will
superintend ballot boxes, sit in con-
eressional hall, and through improved
politics bring the millennium by the
evil she will extirpate and the good
she viii install. Another theory Is
that>she will adopt masculine attire
and make sacred a vulgarism posi-
lively horrifc. Another theory is tina
she will be so esthetic that broom
handle and rolling pin and coal scuttle
will be p~ictorialized 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 womani She will never come /
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 arrive. She would hand
over this world to diabolism, and from
being, as she is now, the mightiest
agency for tho worlds uplifting. she
would be the mightiest force for its
downthrust
I will tell you who the new woman
will be. It will be the good woman of
all the ages past Here and there a
difference OF attire, as h temporary
custom 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 unbe-
lever he had named his two children
Voltaire and Tom Paine, nevertheless
saw him converted, he breaking down
with emotion as he said to her: ST can-
not stand you, you talk like my
mother" and telling the story of
his conversion to twelve companions
who had been blatant opposers of reli-
Rion, 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 baud departing for
Heaven, shouted: Joyful Joyful
Joyfuly' II you know any better style
of woman than that, where Is she2
The world cannot improve on that
kind. The new woman nay 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 educate
us, and did as we'll as she could with
such unpromising material.
But I mnst 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 very
best attitude for everything hat
comes. New ways of voya2ing by sea,
new ways of travelling by land, new
ways Of threshing the haryests, new
ways of printing books. and the patent
Office Is enough to enehant N man who
has mechanical ingenuity and knows a
good heal of levers and wheels, and we
hardly do anything as 1t used to be
done; invention after invention; inyen.
ZION on TOP " AaNcutiOu. I
But in the matter of getting right
with God there has not been an inven-
ton for six thousand 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 by an in
ward stroke of both hands, and the
same faith in Christ that Paul sugr
gested to the jailer the night b peni-
Tertiary broke down.. And hat is the
reason I have more confidence in IL.
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
superiority over all rivalries-
If the world fails to appreciate her
she says: God loves me, the angels
in Heaven are in sympathy with me,
and i can afford to be patient until the
day when the imperial chariot shall
wheel to my door to take nae up to my
coronation." If health goes, she says,
81 can endure the present distress, for
/ am on my way TO a climate the first
breath of which will make me proof
against even the slightest discom-
fort" All right with God, you are all
right with everything.
Advice the second: Make 1t a matter
of religion to take care of your physical
health. 1 do not wonder that the
Greeks deifed health and hailed by
geia as 0 goddess. / rejoice that there
have been SO many modes of maintain
ing and restoring young womanly
health invented in our time. They
may have been known a long time
back, but they have been po~pularized
In our day-lawn tennis, oroqpet, and
golf, and the bicycle.
It was left until the last decade OF
the nineteenth century to give the
speed which we see whirling through
all our cities and along the country
roads, and with that speed comes
health. The women of the next de-
cade will be healthier than at any
time since the world was created,
while the invalidism which has SO
often characterized womanhood will
pass over to manhood, which, by its
posture on the wheel, is coming to
curved spine and eramped chest and a
deformity for which nothe fifty years