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Show ' Chicago ministers are as nne.exponenU of, the . twentieth century' advanced ideas as the Chicago university professors are of Its freakishnesa,' Golf ,; links, the gymnasium; and-outdoor exercise, are. cai ' : .culated to make womanhood the divine outwrOught 1 "idal of perfect beauty,: Is the way the.Bev, Henry . -Irrtsg liasmus of Chicago puts it in a public lecture . - .on wdmen. 'The first woman is presented to as as j . God's ideaf of a perfect womanhood,1 contlaned tho 'preacher. "We stand thunderstruck before: Titian: l ' Venus' and PowerV 'Greek Slave but how Stt- . .prem,Iy beautiful must have been God's Ideal of .what rca should lie, - It was well for na.W take. , a mocest's time and consider whether the methods : ; of hunaa and especially modem society have made ;any, tnprovements on that divine idea. I . snould : ' certainly hesitate in saying that the fashion plates .'of yesterday, and today would. indicate any adtan , 'tage. If the woman ;cut in two in the middle like si ; " r wasp, or striding dqwn the street with the gaft of a ; . , man, is the true conception, then the Almighty in bis vkw i out of date 5 ,The desire for beauty of - iphysical form is God-given, but , the blunder Ut In j 1 human methods to attain it, Ideally first, position ially first; this 'mother f all living'' stands Inflnen V .tlally first, : The power of her influence Is still felt : irnncas-aratly by the race God intended that we-.' we-.' .man. should exert a powerful. influence cm human affairs. - She should be -first In her- influence of pity ' -and sympathy. The world has climbed to goodness and security on the shoulders of woman's tender ' v .nesi What would some, of yon have been If tome j tender-hearted woman had not had pitren: yon and .married youT Yoq better "hasten to; thank heaven; : ,tor a woman's sympathy;' She.should be first in the influence of her purity, This instinct of man which . clothes woman , with reverence and inakeS her the ideal of virtue confers on her an awful power. Ac -ccrdlcg as the ideal is high so the shock of di&ap-.pcintment di&ap-.pcintment is great when the ideal is . shattered, - .Tlierui re let womanhood te first' to meet the tia - a-d t.vili cf hucan society jLnd it will not be far in ..tie future when the beauty and hapless of Eden shalb c-es a:a-be humanity's heritage.' Epe ,c!illy will th2 outdoor exercise ad rice of this most ccavizcirj talker appeal to lovers cf clean sports; k |