Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1898-10-13
GOOD HANDED DOWN.
)R. TALMAGE BREACHES ON iNFLU-
ENcE OF HEREDlTY.

sponsibility.
Copyright, 1898, by American Press Asso-
ciation.l
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9.--The augmcnta-
Ion of parental influence as the centuries
20 by DIR. Talmagc hero sets forth whilo
liscoursing about ono of the grandmoth.
rs of Bible times. Tho text is II Timothy
5, "Tho unfoigned faith that is In thee,
which dwelt first in thy grandmother
lois. "
In this pastoral letter which Paul, tho
Nd minister, is writing to Timothy, tho
ioung minister, the family record is
brought out. Paul practically says:
Timothy, what good grandmother you
Ind You ought to be better than most
olks, because not only was your mother
tood, but your grandmother was good
nso. Two preceding generations of picty
,ught to give You u mighty push In tho
light direction - The fact was that limo
My needed encouragement. Ilo was in
)oor health, having weak stomach, and
vas % dyspeptic, and Paul prescribed for
lin tonic, "a little wine for thy stom-
,ch's sako"-not much vino, but II little
vine, and only rs medicine. And If tho
vino then had been as much adultcratcd
,rn wines he would not have prescribed
my.
But Timothy not strong physically, Is
Encouraged spiritually by tho recital Of
Irurdmotherly excellence, Paul limiting TO
rim, as / hint this to you, that God some
times gathers up rs In II reservoir, away
back of the active generations OF today, n
fudly influence and then, in response to
prayer, lets down tho power upon children
md grandchildren md great grandchil-
lren The world is woofully in want of n
table of statistics in regard to what Is tho
pIotractCdncss and immensely OF influence
pf ono good woman in the church and
world We have accounts of how much
pvil has been wrought by woman who
lived nearly hundred years ago, and of
how many criminals her descendants fur.
nishcd for the pcnitentiary and the gal
lows, and how many hundreds of thou
tands of dollars they cost our country in
their nrraignmcnt and prison support as
well rs in tho property they burglarized
md destroyed, but will not some one come
put with brain comprehensive enough
md heart warm enough and pen keen
Enough to give us the facts in regard to
bomc good woman of hundred years ago
md Let us know how many Christian men
md women and rcformers and useful peo-
pie have been found among her descend
ants, and how many nsylums and colleges
md churches they built and how many
millions Of dollars they contributed fo-
humanitarian and Christian purposesP
Good Womens Influence.
The good women whose tombstones
were planted in the eighteenth century are
more alive for good in the nineteenth CEN
fury than they were before rs the good
women of this nineteenth century will be
moro alive for good in tho twentieth con
fury than now. Mark you, have no idea
that the grandmothers were any better
than their granddaughter You cannot
get very old people to talk much about
how things were when they were boys and
girls. They have u reticenco and n nor.
coumittalism which make mo think they
feel themselves to be the custod'ans OF the
reputation Of their carly comrades. While
our dear old folks are rchcarsing tho follies
OF the present, if we put them or the wit
ness stand and cross examine them as to
how things were 20 years ago the silence
becomes oppressive.
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