Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1852-04-28
Rev. DR.. Dewey On Woman's Rights.

Rev. DR.. Dewey On Woman's Rights,
We have so frequently. but from ques-
iionable quarters, heard strange Pervers'on
of constitutional laws in social relations,
that we have become somewhat duiled TO
the sound Of i, but when such leveing
doctrines proceed from the mouth, and are
spread before the world from the pen. of
such men as DR.. Orville Dewey, we feel il
our duty to protest.
In recent lecture in this city, DR..
Dewey declared il as his sentiment, that
'he advice OF the apostle, counsellng to the
vile submission 10 the husband, is a regu.
Iauon fl only for dark age. In ragard
10 The changes of time and the superior
Iiah, OF the present day, we will observe,
that if the women are since greatly ad-
vanced, 81 also, we will sudpo>e, are the
men and if the husband, in the mental
darkness Of that age, might properly be
regarded as the head OF a household ; so
ma, the men OF day Of comparative
bright ligh, be worthy of that position
A so, thou h 10 the wives i, is SAID, "sub
mn Yourselves" yet We can neither recall!
nor fad any passage in the Bible. where
the husband is told 10 command The vile.
On the contrary. the government OF the
husband is only recognized as govern
men, Of love and protection. The union
of The two principles, OF reverence in the
wife, of ali; c,ona,e guardianship in the
husband, seems to US to give 10 the
relationship aa elevated moral beauty
worthy Of the Creators constitution,
worthy of The wisdom Of God.
Bat more than this, tine principles, or
rather the n-princip pies the dlsorsanlzing,
ieveling tendencies Of this particular phase
of the Woman's Rights agitation, lead to
a deeper chasm in Christian, sequence than
can contemplate with satisfat;on.
The whole order of Christianity, lis
constitution, We may say, is based on the
relations of the conJngal ordinance. hen
we level Up the women, We mean. take
her out of the established order OF Gods
arrangement, we level down man and
We level down Christ For the gospel
aiirms and reiterates the regular sequence
a yariou. modes. As a dogma the
declaration THAT the head Of every man
IS Christ, and the head OF The woman Is
the man and The head Of Christ Is Cod
Illustrated fully in the language thal
follow, IN the same chapter. AS com
=, .rl. ,.r .tswIse ve wives be in subIeciIon
to vog- 8wa husbands hnd notice, Tor
VIVA, none consideration. Not for per-
~onal regari<, OF selfish prudence, but that
The husband mly be won to the rishf' oy
,he meeI: beau,y Of chasie conversation
ia the companion Of his life. As mys
ter,. the beauty OF the alegorlcai marriage
IN the Revelation, is wholly IN the under
stood moral relation between bride and
bridegroom. The marriage OF The
Ismb ia come. and his wife has made
herself ready" Again The holy city,
the new Jerusalem, coming down from
God out of heaven, prepared as a bride
adorned for her husband" The church OF
God 8 IN these verses declared TO be IN
the same relation to Christ, as the wife TO
the husband. Destroy the integrity OF the
Christian marriage, and The symbols en-
ploved to represen, TO us the dependence
of The church and the providence oil
Christ. lose their whole significance.
We have spoken of the Woman's
4, hts agitation :--where society pears
hardly in its laws or want OF laws upon
,b,lnle.s woman let the old law be changed
or The new law be made. The bioie
nowhere coun,enances tyranny in man.
Even a, the fall, il is woman only who Is
addressed in the declaration "He shall
r,ls o,e, thee, the man is told to exercise
his authority as a punishment. And IN
.he New Tes,uan, the real heaven-VeSIeo
rights of woman are so carefully walled
around by every word addressed 'e
husbands and fathers, that we can not SET
how the intractiou Of gospel DEGREES car
in any way benefit the sex.
The whole demeanor OF Christ towards
woman is one Of tender respect regdr'
and confidence, both in language and act
He settles the rights Of women, not b!
giving them the lawful license OF dIvorc'
and re.marriage. but by forbidding III
husband to put away his wife, except TO
uufai,hfulness and then making it Grim
nal for any other man to marry her.
What We wish to record our mo-