The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-02-18

O"r Religious Press Table,
Our local religious contemporaries thi
7 week ace mostly exercised in regard to tn
action Of the Rev. DR.. Cuyler in allowing {
woman to preach from his pulpit Henry
Ward Beecher, in the Christian Union, put
the matter in the following light:-
Dr. Clfyler has escaped. The Presbytery met t.
DR.. Cuyler Will SIM live to fascilate unnumbered
readers with MS brilliant articles In the religious
Tue beaten path Of csuSch WORK. when an angel mel
him-an earthly angei-with no wings but winged
words. Dlscree. comeiy and useful was she. From
TO preach good Will TO men. This had she done with
much success and when DR.. Cuyler beheId that the
before, "wnat was that / could Withstand GodP
so ne asked MISS Smiley TO preach in his pulpit and
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70 the Corinthians Ies your @ women keep s''
silence IN your assemblies" SAID Paul to
silent enough, ana long enough to satisfy the spirit
OF tne command. and that Paul really had that In
society that loved to have them PREACH "a in the
midst OF q new and Christian civilization, when he
| peace.
The Methodist says, in this connection -
| Methodsm has, in the treatment OF this question,
| given women Tree scope for the exercise Of their
talents. and yet has exercised a wholesome Chris
uan prudence. In experience and prayer meetings
| they have always taken part; IN the holding OF
public services they have labored as evangelists
opportunity for freedom in the form Of their pub.
lie addresses which has been OF advantage to the
Mrs. Palmer have travelled over The United States,
The Canadas ana England. In few instances
Quarterly conferences have licensed women as
local preachers. The question OF the admission Of
one TO an Annual Conference has been raised. but
not decided. Systematic preaching, OF course, re-
many women Will 01er themselves for that work;
| be made most extensively useful
The independent (CongregationalisD closes
a two-column leading editorial on the subject
in the following jocose strain:-
| One Of the clerical debaters In the discussion
before the Presbytery of BROOKLYN closed the most
top OF his breath, 'rne nineteenth century and the
alarmed but himself; and in less Than ten minutes
even his alarm had collapsed into the bandest
possession unless some good QIakeress should
happen to frgnten him again /; ana in that event
we recommend him to repeat the shout, "The nine.
| teenth century and the woman are upon uslr Not
Otherwise. as Jeremy Taylor would say, did
eT screa % Uu e la se ea SAW eT
with my eyes, and heard 1t with my ears. and
piece of 1t tell on my tailP
The Evangelist (Presbyterian) contents
itself with publishing report of the proceed
ings of the Presbytery of Brooklyn in relation
to the proposed censure of DR.. Cuyler for
permitting Miss Smiley to preach from his
pulpit
The Observer (Presbyterian) endorses the
action of the Presbytery in resolving that.
''To teach and exhort or to lead in prayer in
public and promiscuous assembly is clearly
forbidden to women in the Holy Oracles,"
and scouts the attempt to make it appear that
the opposition to the course of DR.. Cuyler in
this matter was from the Old School Presley
terians It will thus be seen that the staid
old Observer is also frightened at the appari-
ton of pretty and eloquent Quakeress in
Presbyterian pulpit.
The Golden Age says:-
There Is no question in regard to the character,
the orthodoxy or the spirit OF The gifted Quakeress.
her WORK is 81 ndisp9aole Sne represents class
new civilization. And the Presbytery looks at her.
and behind her t. those who would come through
the door were 1t once opened. and bolts the door
with a text. And SO 1t stands self-condemned. Our
ar w or Is mat sa Its a
OF the new order OF preachers 10 come and revive
them. they Will recall the death sentence 1t pro-
n0unced on ITSELF
The Freeman's Journal protests against
the sending of Catholic children to Protestant
schools. 1t wants it to be
Thundered In the ears OF Catholics that they can.
not make their Easter Communion II they thus offer
their children TO the imminent peril OF perdition,
and the beginning OF the cure Will be wrought
have dissolution In the confessional while they
let their children 20 to goddess or to Protestant
schools they VIII soon md remedy.
The Jesoish Times has an article on the
ancient progress of the Jews, in the course of
which it says:-
Why, the meanest Jew, the ragged dealer In "old
CO." tine mender OF broken glass plates can boast
est princely house OF Europe When the Black
Prince was earning his laurels the house OF David
OF the globe and at the time when the ancestors Of
the present nobility were yet STEPPED in gross lgnor.
promulgated the very ethics of morality and WISDOM
which form the groundwork OF the present social
system
The He6rep Leader touches upon the an
niversary of the birthday of Moses-an event
that happened good many years ago. ;.
We rejoice to notice that spirit of revival
is spreading over the country, and even the
densey populated cities are being blessed with
works of benign grace. Let the good work
go on.
BACK AGAIN AT THE BEGINNING. The
American case on the Alabama claims is the
official correspondence, boiled down, of Mr..
Charles Francis Adams, our Minister at Lon
don, during the war of our rebellion, and the
British case is only an enlargement of the
surly answers and excuses Of Lord John Rus
sell to the pungent complaints Of Mr.. Adams.
England submits her case to the arbitrators
agreed upon; we submit our case, and here
we stand by the treaty, in leaving the judg-
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