The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1870-03-24

aatIong Eule o1N1gns over algns wnlco
las made the world 4 field Of blood
rom that day to this. Il was the
hanse which the Arch Enemy
vrought in the before perfect work Of
he Creator, and is tho work OF the
Evil One, not Of the Father Of Light.
Why He permitted and announced this
triumph Of the Power Of Darkness,
Rhy He suffered and still suffers sin to
exist, is the great unsolved mystery. |
Those who agree that woman's subjeo.
ton is Of divine origin Or BY divine
make God the author Of sin.
At the time He pronounced the curse
on woman, Healso cursed the earth With
thorns and thistles and doomed man to
earn hi, bread BY the sweat Of his
brow. No one argues that thorns and
thistlss have presumption right to the
whole face Of the earth, aud it is NOR
ally wrong to dispute their possession
and seek their determination, because
the Creator then announced their ad-
vent! No one argues that the serpent
was under moral obligation to "hruise
the heep' Of the then promised Saviour,
because God at that time stated that he
should do tdls. '
The subjugation Of woman is simply
part of the curse which was to be
abrogated by the ''seed Of the woman y
and so far from cultivating it, it is the
religious duty Of every man and woman
to resist it, and seek its determination
on the same principle that he does tha.
Of the thorns and would avoid exhaust.
ing labor by tho use Of machinery.
God could not have placed woman
under obligation to be subject to man
| without releasing her from her allegi
ance 70 Himself: Man WAS = rebe
and there was moral certainty tia,
his commands would run counter tt
the divine law. "No man can serv,
two masters" IF woman was the sub
jeot Of man in that confederation
which he had set up against his rightfu
government, she could not At tho SAM
time DO the subject Of that government
from which they had seceeled. Sup
pose that, in our late rebellion, tn
United States had enacted that hal
her citizens in the rebel States should b.
subject to the rebel government, wouls
they not by such enactment have re
leased those persons from their allvgi
auoo to themselves? God could no
have epjoined it upon woman to be il
subsection to her co.rebel without re
leasing her from her obligations as
subject Of His Government. That H
did not do this, and that the patriarch
did not 80 understand Him, is evidea
from tho history Of Shiphlah and Pual
given in the first Chapter Of Exodu.
Pharaoh made 4 law which was pc,
fectly legal, is he WAS the lawgiver Q
Egypt. By it he condemned oertail
Of his subjects to death, and ~
pointed these two women executionera
The death warrant which he placed !,
their hands was - official and lawful =
any that the Governor Of ono Of on
States can issue to any Sheriff, and
these women had been taught by th
Abrahsmio code to believe themselye
subjects Of man instead Of God, tho,
would no doubt have executed Ia
kings command. They did nstbin,
of the kind, but weighed ''the law q
the land" in which they lived IN tn
scale with that higher law to *whio
they owed obedienoe-disobeyed~ th
king, outwitted him, and 80 ohangs'
the political future of Egypt, aided il
establishing new nation, and receive
special marks Of divine favor for thei
sagaoious interference in politics an
} courageous adherence to their rightfu
government. Miriam was associate
with Moses and Aaron in the emancj
patton and government OF the childrei
Of Israel in manner which proves tn,
at that early day women we're eligible t
places of honor in:the church and Stat,
The daughters Of ZelopAida appsare
in person before the supreme court q
their nation, plead their own cause, IN
procured . decision which Wa law fo
centuries: The, form Of govsrnnen
given to Israel M Republican. tn
people were commanded to Echoes
men fearing God and hating eovstoua
ness and set them to rule ovee"thssl
Under that divinely appointed form,
woman become chief magistrats, an
not single woman either. Deborah
the wife Of Lapedoth, judged Isr.e
and led their armies to battle ard I
victory, and wrote = part Of the Bible
When tho nation: was recalled iron
Babylon and rebuilt the Temple, "
read that men md: women came to
gsthsr 70 subscribe tho covenant. Q
constitution which Wa to be the fund,
mental law Of the nation, and on man
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