The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-09-25
BY MRS. V. ELLINwooD OTIS.

Touching Woman's Rights, says The
Chicago Divine, much confusion prevails
arising chiefly from want Of proper
analysis of the main proposition. lst
Was the woman created for the man
or the man for the woman ? Divine
authority says the woman was created
for tho man. Genesis 3: 16.
I'd. What is the relative relation o.
the two, as authoritative head?
In analysing the main proposition
our Dlcther starts out little ahead Of
data. The lord reads, Gen. /: 26-27
And God said .ot us make man in our
own image, after or likeness, and LEI
them have dominion o'er the fishes OF
the sea, and over the cattl', and over all
the earth, and over every or. epibg thing
SO God created man in his vn image,
male and female created he item. Again,
5: 10: In the day God createt man,
in the image of God created he him,
male and female created he them, nd
called Meir name Adam in the day
when they were created
The argument would then be, that
God vested authoritative power and
headship in both the male and female
man Adam
In selecting names for the human be
ing, the natural female and male man,
God chose descriptive words, words that
should describe ter natural or inherent
characteristics. In the original Hebrew
and Bible sense of the words man,
Adam and Eve, they are used as de.
scriptive adjectives, also as plural nouns.
The word Eve signifies Life, the mother
of, or, giving life to all living Adam,
red earth, earth men and in our image,
man, first created in the bible they are
frequently used in their dual sense.
Wo prefxed to the word man, signifies
out of. or man taken out of man.
Jesus and his Apostles SO understood
them. In speaking direct to woman,
Pet. 9: 4, the Apostle says: Whose
adjoining let it not be the outward
adjoining of plating the hair, but let it
be the hidden man of the heart. Jesus
says "There is neither male nor fe-
male, ye are all one; in Heaven there is
neither marriage, nor giving 10 marriage,
ye are as the angels" There is no sim
pie or compound words in the English,
or any other known language, but men
and Adam, or their equivalent, that sig
Nifty both sex, and those words in their
extended biblical application, is siguif.
cant of the fact, and sufficient evidence,
if there was no other, that the .jura sum.
nj in,pcrH is vested equally in both the
male and female man Adam.
If the bible history of creation is to
be given literal construction, aud as a
woman, aud christian / am willing it
should be thus rendered God made
the first man Adam dual being, after
wards separating them into two distinct
conscious entities, who by inverse evolu-
ton should perpetuate themselves and
multiply the number of Gods images on
earth, without farther special act of crea.
tlon All the difference be made in the
two, was physically functional one, to
fulfil the Office of procreation. There
the dissimilarity begins, and there it
ends. When we reach into the realm of
mind, we find federal headship iucorpo-
rated within both, and as God is not
cbaDgeable being, / safely assert that he
holds them in the same reciprocal
relative relation to each other, to.
day, IN which he first placed them, AID
their position, and coutrol in religious,
social and political government, and i'll
domestic life, is as equals, exercising
tender, mutual, encouraging influence,
and restraining control over each other,
aud their offspring, in the bonds of per-
feet love.
AS farther evidence that God did not
vest federal headship exclusively i'll tue
male man: When the daughters of Ze-
lophehad went to Moses, aud plead clio
quvutly for their fathers Inheritance,
Mum q 5-6-7, Moses brought their
cause before the Lord, and the Lord
spake unto Moses, saying The daugh-
tiers of Zelophehad speak right, thou
shalt surely give them a possession of
al inheritance among their fathers
brethren, aud thou shalt cause their
fathers Inheritance to pass unto them.
Gen. 81 II, And God said unto Abra.
ham in all that Sarah hath said unto
thee, hearken thou unto her voice.
Prov. l.: SO. My son hear the instruc'
ton Of thy father, and forsake not the
'ap of thy mother. For they shall be
an ornament of grace unto thine head,
and chains about thy neck.
Touching the woman's being made for
the man. She certainly was not made
tor man to look down upon and control.
She was made a help.mate for man, to
walk by mis- side an equal. In mating
aspan of fine horses, men do not select
one large and one small, one weak, the
other strong, one having eyes, the other
blind, they choose equals that they may
work together in harmony. God did |
not make woman for man, as body.
servant, nor as an appendage, neither as
the lesser half | Cor. Ii : ~. For
as the woman is of the man. even 50 Is
tbo hvy tha