Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1898-10-22
DR.. fALMAGRS SERMON.


eD-Nalue or Their Example.
TIKI: The unfelgned faith that "a in
thee which dwelt first IN thy grandmother
Lois."-II Tim. l.. 5.
In this pastoral letter which Paul. the
old minister. is writing TO Timothy. the
Young minister, the fsmiiy record Is
brought out. Paul practically says: Tin
othy. what good grandmother YOU hadi
You ought 20 be better than most folks. be-
cause not only was your mother good. but
your grandmother was good also. Two
preceding generations OF piety ought 80
give YOU a mighty push IN the right direc-
tion. The TACT WAS thai Timothy needed
encouragement. He was in poor health.
having a weak stomach. aud WAS dys-
peQtic. and Paul prescribed for him a
tonic, "a little wine for thy stomach's
SaSe"-not much wine, but a little wines
and only as medicine. And II the wine
then had been as much adulterated with
lccwoCa aud rtrychnine as our modern
wines, he would not have prescribed any.
But Timothy. not strong physically, Is
encouraged spiritually by the recital 81
crandmotherly excellence. Paul limiting 20
him a. I hint this day 70 YOU that God
sometimes gathers up as IN reservoir,
away back % the active generations OF to-
day, a cody influence, and then ia re-
Spouse 70 prayer lets down the power upon
children and grandchildren and great
grandchildren. The world Is woefuiiv In
want % a table o. statistics in regard 20
what Is the Qrotractedness aud inmensity
OF lAAAtlNt 81 one kNOl woman N tue
church aud world. We have accounts OF
how much evil has been wrought BY a
woman who lived nearly a hundred years
aSo. and q how many criminals her de-
Scenialts furnished for the penitentiary
snd the caliows. and how many hundreds
OF thousands Of dollars they cost our ccun-
trv ga their Arrangement and prison sup
port. gs vel as in the property they bur
CARRIED and destroyed. But will not some
one come out with brain comprehensive
enough. and heart warn enough. and pen
keen enough 20 give &c the facts IN regard
% some good woman Of a hundred years
sgo. and iet u know how many Christian
men AID women and ref0rmerS and useful
people have been found among her de-
scendants. aad how many asyluus and
colleges and churches they built. and how
many millions % dollars they contributed
Z Ter humanitarian ane Christian TurrOSesf
The good women whose tombstonss were
planted IN the eighteenth century az more
I alive Tor good IN the nineteenth century
than they were before. a the good women
D % the min eteeuth century viii hr more alive
for good in the twentieth century than
+ now. Marx yea. I have no idea that the
h grandmother- were any better than their
/ gran daughters. You cannot get very old
. people 70 talk nu "a about how thing- were
when they were boys and girls. They have
. q rcticence and a non committahsu which
4 makes ne think thai they feel themselves
f 20 he the custodians OF the reputation OF
f their early comrades While our dear
. present. II We put them on witness-stand
/ AID cross-exRnine them a. 10 how things
were seventy years go the silence becomes
/ oppressive.
( The celebrated Frenchmen. vofney. visited
/ this corntry In 1895. and he saws OF WON
4 ans diet d. those times. III premium
/ was offered FOR a regimen most destructive
/ 70 health. none could De devised more Ell
+ cacious for these ends than that ia use
4 among these people" That eclipses our lob
steer salad a. midnight. Everybody talks
about the dissipation % modern society and
how wouanly health goes down under g.
but X was worse hundred years ago. for
the chAnl~iu ola French regiment IN our
{ Revolutionary War wrote In 1852. ia his
Book of American Women. saying. They
are tail and weli-propcrtionec. their fea-
tures are generally regular, their pick
E ions are generally fair and without color.
A. twenty years q age the women have no
f longer the freshness % youth. At thirty or
forty they are decrepit' In 1912 q foreign
consul wrote book entitled. a sketch OF
. tue L lifed States ~ tho Commencement 81
TIE Present Century" a1i he saws % the
women % those tines AT the age OF thir-
- al their charms have disappeared" One
glance az the portraits % the women \ hun
f lr-4 years uEO and their stgie % dress
makes as wonder how they ever cot their
breath. All this makes me think that the
express rll train j. no more an improve
inent On the Ola canal boat, or the telegraph
10 81 ore an IMPROVEMENT on TIE olc-time
are az Improvement on the women 0! the
last century.
. Bat still Notwithstanding that those
times were 20 much worse than ours, there
was a glorious race o.. cody women. ses-
elty and hundred years ago. who held
2 the world back from sin and Aitet 10 to-
Eari virtue. aud without their exalted aud
sanctiael influence before this the last good
I influence would have persisted from The
, earth. lRdeec. all over this land there are
seated t0-cAy-nOt 80 much IN churches,
Tor many Of them are TOO feeble 10 come
great many aged grandmOthers. They
d sometimes feel taat the world has gone
past them, and they have an idea that they
are q little account. Tsc.- head some
times gets aching from the racket OF tbs
grandchildren down-srairs or IN the mex.
. room. They steady themselves by th'
] banisters a. they 90 up and down. WheI
I they get a cold il hangs on them longer
= than IL used 20. They cannot bear to have
tue grandchildren puDished even wSeI
e they deserve Il, and have 50 relExe,
I their ideas OF family discipline that the.
would spol all the youngsters Of the house
hold by too great leDieDcy. These oil
folks are the resort when great trouble
come. AID there r. q calming and soOthiDi
: power Ia the touch % an aged hand thai !
4 almost supernatural. They feel they CT
} almost through With the journey Of lf