The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1898-12-24
ia. GE''S SERMON.


rTHE GRANDMoTHERs, LAST
SUNDAYS SUBJECT.
THE Unfeigned Faith That Is in Thee,
Which Dwelt First In Thy Grand
mother Lois" From Second Book Of
Timothy. Chapter /. Verse s. sss l.8 s>f. {.
In this pastoral letter which Paul,
the old minister, is writing to Timo-
thy, the young minister, the family
record is brought out. Paul practical
ly says: Timothy what a good grand
mother you had! You ought to be
better than most folks, because not
only was your mother good, but your
grandmother was good also. Two pre-
ceding generations Of piety ought to
\ give you q mighty push in the right
direction. 4" The fact was that Timothy
needed encoura cement. He was in
poor health, having weak stomach,
and was a dyspeptic, and Paul pre-
scribed 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 much adulterated with logwood
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
< limiting to him, as I hint this day to
you, that God sometimes gathers up as
In reservoir, away back of the active
generations of today, a godly in1u-
ence, and then IN response to prayer
let's down the power upon children and
grandchildren and great grand
The world is woefully in want OF Ia
BILE Of statistics in regard to W hat is
the protractedness and immensity OF
influence of one good woman in the
church and world We have accounts
: of how much evil has been wrought by
+ a woman who lived nearly hundred
years ago, and of how many criminals
her descendants furnished for the pen
dtentiary and the gallows, and how
p
they cost our country in their arraign-
ment and prison support, as well 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 a
hundred years ago, and let us know
how many Christian men and women
and reformers and useful people have
been found among I, her descend ants,
and how many asylums and colleges
and churches they built, and how many
millions of dollars they contributed
for humanitarian and Christian pur
poses? %e3s .GE<s @@ r" Z,
The good women whose tombstone;
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 the nineteenth
century will be more alive for good in
the twentieth century than now. Marx
you, I have no ideasthat the grand
mothers were any better than thell
granddaughters. You cannot get very
old people, to d talk much about how
things were when they were boys ant
girls. They have reticence and a non
committalism which makes me thinl
they feel themselves to be the ,custo
dians of the reputation of their early
comrades. While eour dear old folks ar
rehearsing the follies of the present, j
we put them on the witness stand AM
cross-examine them as, to how thing
were seventy years ago the silence be
comes oppressive. JE 3,.
The celebrated Frenchmen, Vorney
visited this country in 1895, and h
says of woman's diet in those times
eff a premium was offered for a regi
men most destructive to health, nom
could be devised more eff1cacious TO-
these ends than that in use. amon|
these people," That eclipses our lob
ster salad at midnight. 8Everybod,
talks about the dissipation of modern
society and how womanly health goe
down under it, but it was worse a hun
IA ,dred years ago, for the chaplain Of {
French regiment in our revolutionary
war wrote in 1882, in his ""Book O
American, Women" " saying: "They ar
tall and Well-proportioned y their fea
lures are generally regular, their com
plexions are generally fair and withou
color. At twenty years Of age the won
en- have no longer the freshness o
youth. At thirty or forty they are de
crepit.' In 1872 q foreign consul Wrot,
a book entitled "a Sketch Of the Unit
ed states at the Gomme encement'o OF th,
RI Present Century, :, !" and he says OF tn
d women OF those times: = At. the age O
thirty all their charms have disap-
stpeared. One glance at the portrait
OF the women hundred years ago, ant
their style OF dress makes us wonde
.how they ever got their breath. All
this makes me think that the express
rail train is no more an improvement
n i. ,on the old canal boat, or the telegraph
8 no more an Improvement on the. old
time saddle-bags, than the women o
our day are an Improvement on th,
women Of the last century,
But still, Notwithstanding that thos,