The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1867-03-07

worker at horneain ptoportionas as she il
Ignorant in anything else. / hold thai
the more she knowsof things abroad
the better she Is prepared to discharge
her duties AT home. The larger her 10.
telligencethe more it avails in each spe.
clfc application Of it. Do you believe
that If a. woman went through a whole
course ofcpllegiate study, arranged with
special reference to her peculiar accom-
plishments, that the larger her appFe-
hension the less she would be devoted
to her specific toll and labor7a The lar.
ger you make her capacity the greater
the resources at her command, and the
more likely will she be to bring her M
telfigepce tobearupon the forms Of each
branch Of her daily toll. i would not
have a woman scorn to mend a stock
ing, 10 sew on a shirt1button-that
everlasting illustration running through
the papers. Let her stay at home; but
she is not fituto be my mothcri if she
knows nothing else but how to darn a
stocking oroto sew ON hirt-buttoh.
Applause. But it is said that such
notions as these are contrary 10 the
whole spirit and the very letter Of the
Christianity Of the Scriptures, which Of
dains that woman should stay at home,
bear children, and care for them, and
not become public teacher; that she
should recognize her place as second
and subordinate to man, Now if these
things are SO it would close the discus
sion. Otcourse we all doreverence to
the Scriptures as diyinely inspired and
authoritative. But they are not sos
''Yie do err, not knowing the Scrip
tures."a will admit that there is col
or of semblance of such truth % but I
will admit also, and insist upon it, that
better or deeper historic Knowledge OF
the Scriptures takes away the Whole
force Of any such allegation, For what
was the Hebrew custom in respect to
woman2 You shall look through the
whole, of the Old Testament, end to
end, and you shall not find one single
disquali6ying On lowering restriction.
There is nothing in the Old Testament
in reference to the Oriental doctrine of
the inequality of the sexes; but much
to justify the modernadoctrine which we
think we detive more largely from the
purer Hebrew mDralsense than from
the more impure Greek moral sense.
Did the Apostles say formally, Set aside
the old Hebrew creed in. existence
among you; set aside the old Hebrew
customs which made woman substan-
TALLY, if not equal to man, entitled to do
whatever God raised her up and quali-
fled her to do! Did the Apostles tell
the Hebrews to set that aside? On the
contrary, on the day of Pentecost, Peter
used this language-:' 'tAnd it shall
come to pass in the last day, saith God,
| will pour out Of my spirit upon all
flesh, and your sons and your daughters
shall prophesy Gn which the whole min
isterial function is included and your
young men shall see visions, and your
oldmen shall dreamdreams; and on my
servants and on my Aaadmaidens i will
pour outin those days of my Spirit,
and they shall prophesy." Does that
look like the exclusion of women from
public functions and from ministerial
actionY 1t is intensely Hebrew in its
spirit. Not one book in the New Tes-
lament written TO the Jews distinctly
contains any allusion to restriction.
Whenever any injunction of silence of
women is found, and of relative subor-
dination, you shall find that the Apos-
tie was writing to converts that were
either Greeks or were under the infu-
ence of Greek customs. They are to
be found in only two books; oneis the
Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians (no-
toriously a Greek church, } and the other
is the Epistle OF Paul to Timothy (and
Timothy was the son Of a certain man
who was q Greek and Of certain wo-l
man who was a. Jewess;) but, he was
himself, manitestly, in his ministrations,
Greek, working among Greeks. In
his letters to auGreek church, and to
Timothy, himselfa Greek and working
among his own countrymen, and in
those only, did the Apostles, take the
ground-which was substantially this
that because a man was converted itdid
not justify him in setting aside all the
manners and customs of the nation in
which he lived. '9 y 5a''.s,i' ,, . g. .'.. q
ahlo CONCLUSION NEXT WEEK. g
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