Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-10-08
THE MOTHERS OF MEN
DR.. TAtMAGE SHOWS HOW WOMEN
SHAPE DESTINY.

DR.. TAtMAGe SHOWS HOW wome,
SHAPE DESTINY.
What 10 Bred In the Bone-The Innu
| ences of Hercdity-It Ii the HON,
That Makes the Nntlon-Nature New
err FOrgets.
copyright. 1898. BY American Press Asso
ciation.l
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9.-The augmen
tation of parental influence as the cen
turtles go by, DR.. Talmage here set
forth, while discoursing about one Of tn,
rrandmothers Of Bible times. The text II
II Timothy j, 8, 1.-THE unfeigned faitt
that Is in thee. which dwelt first II
thy grandmother Lois" In this pas
toral 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 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 weak
stomach, and was dyspeptio, and Paul
prescribed for him a tonic, "a little
wine for thy stomach's sake'-not
much wine, but little wine, and only
as medicine. And If the wine then
had been as nuch adulterated with log
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 grandmotherly excellence, Paul hint
ing to him, as hint this day to You,
that God sometimes gathers up as in q
reservoir, away back Of the active gem
erations Of today, a godly influence, and
then in response to prayer lets down the
power upon children and grandchildren
and great-grandchildren. The world is
woefully in want of table of statistics
in regard to what is the protractedness
and INN ensity of influence of one good
woman in the church and world. We
have accounts of how much evil has
been wrought by 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 our country in their
arraignment and prison support as we'll
as in the property they burglarized and
destroyed. But will not some one come
out with brain comprehensive enough
and heart warm enough and pen keen
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 bow many asylums and
colleges and churches they built and
how many millions Of dollars they con-
tributed for humanitarian and Christian
purposes2
The Women Who Won.
The good women whose tombstones
were planted in the eighteenth century
are more alive fer good in the nine
teenth century than they were before,
as the good women Of this nineteenth
century will he more alive for good in
the twentieth century than now. Mark
you, havo no 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
havo 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
follies of the present if we put them on
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 CT woman s diet in those times, "lf
premium was offered for regimen
most destructive to health, none could
be devised more ef1icacious for these
ends than that in use among these peo'
ple." That eclipses our lobster salad at
midnight. Everybody talks about tho
dissipation of modern society and how
womanly health goes down under it,
but it was worse 100 years ago, for the
chaplain of a French regiment in our
Revolutionary war wrote in 1889 i'll his
Book of American Women" saying:
"Thcy are tall and we'll proporticned,
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 80 or 40 they are decrepit. "
In 1919 foreign consul wrote a book
entitled IA 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 CT 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 all improve
ment OH the old canalboat or the tele'
graph no more an improvement on the
old time saddlebags than the women
Of our day are an Improvement on the
women of the last century
Honor the Aged.
But still, Notwithstanding that those
times were go much worse than ours,
there was o glorious race OF godiy wom-
~, IN ond 100 wears ago who held the