The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1873-08-08
LETTER FROM BOSTON.


scriptiOn Of "The Coming Race, )" where,
in a volume of several hundred pages, |
this classical writer keeps the reader |
constantly engaged in drawing q paral- |
lei between the views, the religions, the |
laws and customs Of our race, and the |
remarkable ''Vrilyas" "a more ad-
vanced@ race that Bulwer found by ex-
ploring a very deep mine, when by the
sudden dropping out OF the bottom Of
the shaft he saw a new world below,
which by the aid of long ropes he was
enabled to visit. His notes of travel
among the "Vrilya race" he found there
must have suggested to our traveller a
short trip into Africa in search of the
datipodes of the "Vrilyas." This Afri-
can "yoke" is certainly antipOdal to
the matrimonial yoke Bulwer saw in
use among the ''coming race" though
it looks very much like good many
"yokes" l see people wearing in Amer
lea. This "yoke" question is becoming
an important one, both in the pulpit
and on the stump. The question with
me is what yoke is it? Is it the one de-
scribed in Mat. 1l:30 as "easy," or is it
the one described in Isaiah $50 which
we are exhorted to "break" when it be-
comes "heavy burthen?" know the
views taken by many of the advocates
of Woman's Rights, but then what do
,rOnlen know about Theology? A dis
sertation on dish-washing, house-clean-
ing or securing tin, would be kindly re-
ceived by ME, or Bro. Thornton perhaps,
but when woman goes out of her
'sphere" to interpret Scripture, to ex
anime the reasons for law, or to inquire
into the best forms or shapes of "yokes,"
We have no patience with her. Wom-
ans business is to wedr the yoke, and
wear it patiently, no matter what
drunkard, brute or imbecile may be at
the other end Of it. Her superior refine
ment, delicacy and sensibility seem to
peculiarly fit her for il. Woman's pc
culiar organization seems to harmonic
with the teachings of our venerated pill
grim divines, whose tombs often visit
in Cops Hill Cemetery. These divines
had positive ideas about the "sphere
and duties Of woman" / know that
Beecher and men Of his stamp, whose
benevolence often beclouds their vision
when looking at that most admirable
attribute Of JehOyah's character, which
our ancestors called "immutable JUS
tiee," are getting some strange notions
about the proper Interpretation of such
Scripture as plainly fixes the status OF
woman. Beecher's dangerous doc
trines' on this and other subjects, which
constitute the swarm of new fedged
isms that are cropping out in all ouI
departments Of modern literature, as
contained in books and papers, have al
been born in consequence of our theolO-
gians having too much neglected tC
dwell upon the fmmutable justice" o.
Sovereignty Of God" which in ny
boyish days was fed on by the ''hOl!
man of God" nearly every sabbath,
while / sat for two mortal hours in
hot day under the "drippings of tn
Sanctuary" and munched dill to kee
awake. Our Fathers said had pOsitiv
ideas on these subjects. All men hav
? positive ideas on all subjects, when the.
do not allow themselves to read mucl
or think much. AS sure as men begi
J, to read all sorts Of books and think 70
"a fhau,ga1.-au FIaxr nn an 3lnejfjg.
about the truth of their former teach
ings. To-day there is a public librar.
{ in Boston, free TO all, containing
! hundred and twenty thousand volumes
: To-day there is an organized societ.
here to "prevent cruelty to dumb ami
Il mails" Notices are posted up at the foo
> of all the hills in the city: "Please un
y check your horses while going up HILL
The man who severely whips a horse
: or drives n lame or sick animal, is ar
il rested and fined. This Society yestel
u day advertised an offered premium c
d $50 to any man who will invent the bes
harness to take the place of the "yoke
d now worn by oxen. Can such Beeehe
Il fanaticism be satisfied with "breakin
d the yoke" now worn by oxen? Wi
: not the ''yOke" that now gals the neck
: of thousands of suffering women, badl
mated, be next broken, or some kind {
i legal ''single harness" be fixed up i
It which woman can haul her load of II
i sponsiblities through this world alon,
d without having to haul n drunken hu:
l. band too, who spends all their combine
!. earnings on "wine and women" or VIII
d is otherwise repulsive clog to her?
/, In the days of Cotton Mather ther
l. was no public library in Boston; chi
- dren studied the blessed Catechisn
grown people confined their readings
q such works as ''Dodridge's Saints Rest,
N "Bunyan's Pilgrims Progress" "Pale
Y on SanctificatiOn," "Funkhouser's Ev
IS dences of a New Heart" and 'Danfort
,r on Justification" Every Sabbath
II all the people sat for four long houl
: under the 'drippings of the Sanctuary,
Ie while the holy man thundered of I'll
''terrors of the law" made plain Ii
-, doctrine Of election and reprobation,
discoursed Of "the exceeding sinfulnei
of SIM" or harmonized eternal tormeI
with those admirable attributes Of Jeh,
yah, known as sovereignty and in
D. mutable Justice" all squeezed out b
le submitting Moses to theological higl
lie pressure engine, and then distilling hii
IS and drawing Off the essence. Then, IL