Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-04-23
NO. 81.

caHy reported by j. ". W. Yerringion ana
hww Leightsn, Boston. X. r. Valicm, 81
CornhiH, Boston.
Mr.. Parker has just preached a series Of SER
mons, four in number, upon Woman, the pop.
ular idea concerning her-hcr characteristics
and her functions, domestic and public. This
sermon is the last of the series. An extract
relating to the political rights of woman will
be found on the fourth page of this paper
The whole subject is treated with the authors
accustomed eloquenco and regard to radical
truth. His words must have sounded strangely
to some of the solid men" Of Boston.
We cannot refrain from an extract or two
regarding the employment of women. Speak
ing of those to which women have been here
tofore restricted, he says:
"Then there are what nre called ProIcs.
sions, Medicine, Law, aud Theology.
The profession of Medicine seems to
belong peculiarly to woman by nature part
of IL, exclusively. She is u nurse, aud half
doctor, by nature. II is quite encouraging
that medical schools nre beginning TO instruct
woman, and special schools get founded for
the use OF women that saguci0us men are
beginning To employ women us their physi-
clans. Great good is 10 he expected from
that.
"As yet, ! believe no woman ucis rs n
Lawyer. But see no reason why the pro-
iession OF Law might not he followed by
women nsswel ns men. lie must be rather
nn uncommon lawyer who thinks 10 femi
nine bead could compete with him. Most
lawyers that have known nre rather me-
chanlcs at law; aud in The mechanical part,
womun could do ns well ms man-rould be
as good n cOnveyancer, could follow prece-
dents us carefully, aud copy forms MS nicely.
And ia the higher departments of legal work,
they who hive read the plea which Indy
Alice Lille made in England when she could
not spenk 10y attorney, must remember there
is some eloquence la woinnli's tongue which
courts find il rntller hard to resist. think
Seer presence would mend the manners of
abe cOuri-oi the bench, not less lhun OF the
bar.
ain the business Of Theology, could ne
ser see why n woman, IL she wished, should
not preach, ns well as men. II would be
hard, in the present condition of the pulpit
90 say she had not intellect enough for that
l ana glad to find, now aud them women
preachers, aud rejoice nt their success. A
year ago, introduced to SOu the Reverend
Miss Brown, educated at an Orthodox The.
ologicnl Seminary YOU smiled nj the name
of Reverend Miss. She has since been nvi-
ted to settle hy several congregations of uii-
blemished orthodoxy, and las passed OH,
looking further
at seems TO me that woman, lIy her pecu-
iiar constitution, is better qualified To teach
religion than any merely intellectual dci-
i,line. The Quakers have already recognis-
ed the natural right of woman to perform
the same ecclesiastical function MS man. At
this duy, tlie most distinguished Of that de-
nomination is n woman, who ndorns her do.
inestc calling ms n housckceper, wife and
mothar, with the same womanly dignity and
sweetness which marks her public deport-
ment.
"If woman had been consulted, il seems
TO me Theology would have been in n vastly
better state than IL is now. ! do not think
that nny woman would ever have preached
the damnation of babies newborn; aud
/" hell paved with tire skulls of infants not
spnn long" would he II region yet to he dis
covered in Theology. A celbate monk
with Gods curse wit on hIs ince, which
knew no child, no wife, no sister, aud blush
cd TINT he had n motlpr--nglt well dream
of such n thing: he had been through the
preliminary studies Consider the ghastly
God in the popular Theology, The idea OF
infinite wrath, of infinite dannniion, and o.
ial depraviiy, aud NIL tint, why, you could
not get woman that had intellect enough
10 open her mouth TO preach these things
anywhere. Women think they think that
they believe them; but They do not. Celihate
priests, who never knew marriage, or what
paternity WINS, who thnught woman wns n
"polution," they invented those ghosily doc
trines aud when | have heard the Atlnnn-
aim Creed aud the Dies Irn chauted 10y
monks, with the necks of bulls aud the lips
of donkeys,-why, have understood where
the doctrine came from, nnd have felt the
appropriateness of their braying out the
damnation hymns: woman could not do il.
We shut her out of the choir, ont of the
priests house, out of the pulpit, aud then
the priests, with unnatural vows, came in,
and taught these "tloclrnes of devils" Could
you find n woman who would read TO con-
gregnton, MS words of truth, Jonathan Ed.
wards Sermon on Future State" Sinners
in the hands of an angry Gud," the Justice
of God in the dOnnnlon of Sinners" "Wraih
upon the Wicked To the uttermost," the iu-
ture punishment of the Wicked" aud other
things of that sort? Nay, eau you fnd n
worthy woman, of any considerable culture,
who will read the fourteenth chapter Of
Numbers, and declare that true picture of
the God she worships? Only a dragon
could do il, in our day.
a"The popular Theology ltnves us nothing
fminine in the character OF God. How could
it be Otherwise, when so much Of the popu-
lar Theology is the work of men who
thought woman wns n "polnion," and barred
her out of all the high plnces of the church 2
If women hnd their place in ccclesnsiicH!
teaching, doubt that the "Aihanasian Greed"
would ever hive been thought Symbol"
of Christianity. The pictures and hymns
which describe the last Judgement are pro-
test against the exclusion of woman from
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