Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-10-10
lE MOTHERS OF MEN
DR.. TALMAGE SHOWS HOW WOMEN
SHAPE DESTINY

er EOTScIS.
copyright. 1885, by American Press Asso-
ciation.l
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9.-The augmen-
tation of parental influence as the CEN
turtles go by, DR.. Talmage here sets
forth, while discoursing about one of the
grandmothers oe Bible times. The text is
III Timothy j, 3, 1.-The unfeigned faith
that is in thee, which dwelt first in
thy grandmother Lois. In this pas
toraI letter which Paul, the old minis
ter, is writing to Timothy, the young
minister, the family record is brought
out. Paul practically says: Timothy,
what a good grandmother you had!
You ought to be better than most folks
because rot only was your mother good,
but your grandmother was good also
Two preceding generations of piety
ought TO give you mighty push in the
right direction - The fact was that
Timothy needed encouragement He
was in poor health, having a weak
stomach, and was dyspeptic, and Paul
prescribed for him a tonic, "a little
Wine for thy stomach's sake'-not
much wine, but lutte wine, and only
as medicine And if the wine then
wood and strychnine as our modern
wines he would not have prescribed
any.
But Timothy, not strong physically,
is encouraged spiritually by the recital
of grandmotherIy excellence, Paul hint
ing to him, as l hint this day to you,
that God sometimes gathers up as in a
reservoir, away back Of the active gen
erations Of today, q cody influence, and
then in response to prayer lets down the
power upon children and grandchildren
and great grandchildren. The world is
woefuIly in want of q table Of statistics
in regard to what is the prOtractedness
and imm ansity of influence of one good
woman il the church and world. We
have accounts of how much evil has
been wrought by q woman who lived
nearly 100 years ago, and Of how many
criminals her descendants furnished for
the penitentiary and the gallOWs, and
how many hundreds Of thousands of
dollars they cost cur country i'll their
arraignment and prison support as well
as in the property they burglariZed and
destroyed. But will not some one come
out with brain comprehensive enough
enough to give us the facts in regard to
some good woman Of 100 years ago and
let Us know how many Christian men
and women and reformers and useful
people have been found among her de-
scendants and how many asylums and
colleges and churches they built and
how many millions Of dollars they con-
tributed for humanitarian and Christian
purposes?
The Women who Won.
The good women whose tombsGones
were planted in the eighteenth century
are more alive for good in the nine
teenth century than they were before,
as the good women Of this nineteenth
century will be more alive for good IL
the twentieth century than now. Mark
you, have 10 idea that the grandmoth-
ers were any better than their grand
daughters. You cannot get very old peO-
pie to talk much about how things were
when they were boys and girls. They
have reticence and a nOncommittalism
which makes me- think they feel them
selves to be the custodians of the repu-
tation Of their early comrades. While
our dear old folks are rehearsing the
the witness stand and cross examine
them as to how things were 70 years
ago tie silence becomes oppressive.
The celebrated Frenchman, Volney,
visited this country in 1896, and he
says of woman S diet in those times, ''If
premium; was offered for regimen
most destructive to health, none could
be devised more ef1cacious for these
ends than that in use among these pee
pie. - That eclipses our lobster salad at
midnight. Everybody talks about the
dissipation Of modern society and how
womanly health goes down under it,
but it was worse 100 years ago, for the
chaplain of q French regiment in our
Revolutionary war wrote in 1882 in his
Book of American Women" saying:
'They are tall and well proportioned,
their features are generally regular,
their compilations are generally fair and
without color. At 20 years of age the
women have no longer the freshness of
youth. At so or 40 they are decrepit. .
In 1912 foreign consul wrote a book
entitled "A Sketch Of the United States
at the Commencement of the Present
Century" and he says Of the women OF
those times, cat the age of 30 all their
charms have disappeared. One glance
at the portraits Of the women 100 years
ago and their style of dress makes US
wonder how they ever got their breath.
All this makes me think that the ex-
press rail train is no more an improve
ment Oh the old canalboat or the tele-
graph no more an Improvement on the
old time saddIebags than the women
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women Of the last century
Honor the Aged.
But still, notwithstanding that these