Love of home is natural to all, and it cannot but be an affliction to be compelled to leave it, to gratify the malice or caprice of others. Church courts, instead of sustaining faithful ministers, give them no appointments. This is to act the part of those that forsook Paul. Though ministers are not to be forced upon people, yet those, who can give no other reason for the rejection of a minister sent as a supply, or for the dissolution of the pastoral relation than ministerial faithfulness, ought to be proceeded against by the censures of the Church. The Synod of the so-called Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America, has, by its act permitting deaconesses, violated the law of God, which, both in the Old and New Testaments, clearly teaches the subjection of the woman to the man.
Every office supposes power to a greater or less extent.
This office, therefore, gives the woman authority over the man to the full extent of its power. The limited extent of the deacon's power does not affect the question. Difference in degree does not change the nature of anything. The tendency of this act is to render the family a headless monster, and to unfit it for the duties for which it was instituted by God the training of children, and fitting them for the duties that will devolve upon them as members of the church and the state. It is not possible for children to 1earn this, if the father and mother possess equal authority.