Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1898-10-14
THE MOTHERSOF MEN
DR.. TALMAGE SHOWS HOW WOMEN
SHAPE DESTINY.

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copyright. 1895. by American Press Asso-
ciation.l
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9.-The augmen-
tation Of parental influence as the CEN
turies 90 by, DR.. Talmage here sets
forth, while discoursing about one Of the
grandmothers OF Bible times. The text is
II Timothy j, ., 1.-THE unfeigned faith
that is in thee, which dwelt first in
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
ont. Paul practically says: Timothy,
what a good grandmother you hadi
You ought to be better than most folks,
because not only was your mother good,
but your grandmother was good also.
Two preceding generations OF piety
ought to give you a mighty push in the
right direction. The fact was that
Timothy needed encouragement lie
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 little wine, and only
as a medicine. And if the wine then
had been as much adulterated with log
wood and strychnino 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 l hint this day to you,
that God sometimes gathers up as in
reservoir, away back Of the active gen
erations Of today, godly influence and
then in response TO prayer lets down the
power upon children and grandchildren
and decentralization The world IS
woefully in want Of a table Of statistics
in regard 20 what is the protractedness
and mansity of influence Of one good
woman in the church and world. We
have accounts Of how much evil has
been wrought by woman VINO lived
nearly 100 years ago, and OF how many
criminals her descendants FINISHED for
the penitentiary and the s1iloWs, and
how many hundreds thousands Of
/ dollars they cost our t.Untfy IN their
arraignment and priso, support as well
rs i'm the property th,y burglarlzed and
DESTROYED. But viii 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 rs know how many Christian men
and women and reformers and useful
people have been found among her de-
scendants and bow many asylums anc
colleges and churches they built ano
how many millions Of dollars they con
tributed for humanitarian and Christian
purposes?
The Women Who Won.
The good women whose tombstone'
were planted in the eighteenth century
ara moro 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. Mari
YOU. have no idea that the grandmoth
ers were any better than their grand
daughters. You cannot get very old peo
ple TO talk much about bow things wer'
when they were boys and girls. They
have a reticence and a noncommittalisn
which makes no think they feel them
selves 10 be the custodians Of the repu
tation of their early comrades. Will
our dear old folks are rehearsing tn
follies Of the present if we put them Oh
the witness stand and cross examlh
them as to how things were 10 year
ago the silence becomes oppressive.
The celebrated Frenchman, Nolney
visited this country in 1896, and b
saws Of woman : diet in those times, i
a premium was offered for regime
most destructive to health, none coul
be devised more efficaciOus for thes
ends than that in use among these pee
ple. " That eclipses our lobster salad a
midnight. Everybody talks about tn
dissipation of modern society and ho'
womanly health goes down under Il
but it was worse 100 years ago, for III
chaplain Of French regiment IN ou
Revolutionary war wrote in 1882 III hl
Book of American Women " saying
"They are tall and we'll proportioneC
their features are generally regu u
their complexions are generally far an
without color. At 20 years Of age II
women have no longer the freshness
youth. At 30 or 10 they are decrepit
In 1912 foreign consul wrote a DOC
, entitled "a Sketch of the United Stat'
at the Commencement of the Presei
Century" and he says of the women
those times. "At the age of 30 all the
charms have disappeared. " One glan'
at the portraits Of the women 100 yea
ago and their style Of dress makes
wonder how they ever got their breatl
All this makes me think that the e
press rail train is no more an improv
ment on the old canalboat or the tel
praph no more an improvement on Il
. old time saddlebags than the wom'
r of our day are an Improvement on q
| women of the last century
=. Honor the Aged.
Rut still. notwithstanding that tho
times were so much worse than oul
i there was a glorious race Of godly woi
8 on 70 and 100 wears ago who held q
:, world back from sin and lifted 1t iowa
virtue. and without their exalted al
z sanctifed influence before this the Ia
g good influence would have perished iro
the earth. Indeed all over this lal
there are seated today-not so mucn
J churches. for many Of them are TOO Il
G BILE TO come-a great many aged gran
q mothers. They sometimes feel that [
world has gone past them, and IN
Lave an idea that they are OF httie
count Their heads sometimes get achi
from the racket Of the grandchildr
down stairs or in the next room In
\ steady themselves by the banisters
d they 20 sp and down. When they ge'
IS sold, it hangs on them longer tnan
It rsed to. They cannot bear to have
ID grandchildren punished even when ga
8 deserve it and have so relaxed tn
ss ideas Of family discipline that u
would spoil all the youngsters OF