The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1917-11-09
"THE MODEL
WOMAN

Sermon Preached by Rev. W. S. e.
! lington, D. D., Pastor First Baptist
Church, East Nashville-Laree
Audience Present.
In discussing the subject of 1.-THE
Model Woman" it is necessary that
we first notice the character of some
Of the old Hebrew women. i like
to think of mother Eve, the woman
that God decreed to be the mother
, of all mankind. There are many
people who like to dwell on the cir
cumstanceS connected with the fall
of man, but like to think of Eve as
one of those women who was always
present with her husband when God
visited the Garden of Eden. God
having made these two individuals
in his own likeness placed them in
the garden and visited them at
least once day. 1t is very hard
matter for us to have him as our
guest once a year, yet we learn that
in the cool Of the evening he was
present to talk with Adam and Eve.
Adams wife was always present to
catch the flaming words of love and
inspiration as they fell from the lips
Of the Father
The next woman | would like to
bring to your attention IS Sari, beau
tiful Sari, Abrams wife. Living in
comfort among her people and her
gods; yet when the call came for
Abram to forsake all that was near
and dear to him and go into a strange
land, among hostile people, to be-
come as it were a gypsy, she was
willing to forsake all and go as a
comfort and companion to her hus
band.
Among the noted women of the
Hebrew race we must not forget
Hannah. Hannah praying for a son
that she might dedicate him to the
Lord.
More and more my people have to
learn the lesson of the sacredness of
motherhood, that the hand that rocks
the cradle rules the world. Every
woman should heed the lesson of
Hannah on her knees praying for a
son.
Before we close this review of the
Hebrew women | like to think of
that other woman coming from
earths remOtest bounds, some say
| from Africa, who when she heard
of the wisdom of Solomon and the
glory of his kingdom, came with the
fragrance Of the flowers of sunny
Africa, with frankincense and myrrn,
: with gifts of gold and of silver, with
her eunuchs and her horsemen, and
answered the words from the lips of
the king with sentences of wisdom.
1 repeat that in summing up the WON
en- OF the Hebrew race, a cannot
close without making mention of this
great and glorious woman from Afri-
ca.
We will notice further that from
the time of the children of Israel
asked for a king till the opening of
the New Testament, is one of the
blacklist periods in the history of the
Jewish people. When the kings of
, Judea sat upon the throne and the
women forsook all that was noble
and holy and made themselves play-
things in the courts of royalty. and
began to adorn themselves for the
sole purpose Of shining and being
attractive to the men about them
the nation of which they were a part
went down to utter disaster. Right
mere l would like to say that 1t is
necessary that our mothers teach
their daughters that it is far more
honorable to work hard for an hon.
est living than to become the play
thing for some dressed up dude. If
there is anything that | admire more
IMAM anything else it Is that girl or
woman who says to herself: 1.-THE
talent that God has given me I will
treasure. l will earn my living by
the sweat of my own brow In this
connection it is necessary for me to
sary that the manhood also be de.
state that in order to develope the
Womanhood of the race it is neces.
yeloped You can not have clean
daughters without clean sons. 1t is
lasting reproach to the nation that
secretary Daniels should have to come
out boldly and say that the man.
hood of the United States is rotten
from criminality committed in Sc
cret. That one out of every three
men examined for military service
has been rejected because of this
blight. 1t may be that many of them
are like the young man who was
having his first experience under
llre. The strain was so great that he
began to cry. His superior officer
noticing lit cried out, Get to work
there about your duty and stop cry
ing like a baby" To which this
young fellow replied, Eyes, | wish /
was baby and girl baby at that"
However it is certainly no credit to
young man that when the time of
distress comes to the country he
loves and he is called to play his
part, when the time comes when ne
/ must be measured as a man to con-
test with other men, because of his
sins he must take back seat The
modern method of courtship is
Wretched, when on the night the
young man calls the curtains must be
lowered, the mother must go to pray.
er meeting while the daughter sits
| In the parlor with a fellow, both of
them occupying a seat not big enough
| for one.
TO my mind the Model Young
Woman" is the Virgin Mary, the
! mother four Christ I like to
think of Mary as the Model Young
Woman, because she loved good COM
pany. Look at her as she goes to
Elizabeth, because she had heard
that Elizahath 10