, 1874-02-10
MRS, srANToN's NEW POLICY.

Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, III her battle for
the equality OF women, 4as made chango Of
baao. Finding every avenue to that equality
gun1ded by the political, social, and religious
Corbeli Of the Tyrant Nun, she has now taken
up her line Of march In MI entirely new direction.
and las issued pronunciamonto which ID cal
culatcd to rally the women around her standard
ana CAUSE general agitation III tho masculine
camp. The first movement Of the enemy which
induced Mrs. Stanton to take this step was tho
rejection Of tho Boston ladies' who had boen
cEocted to seats upon tho School Board and tho
second WIS tho action Of tho Brooklyn Presbytcry
forbiddtng the Rev. Salah Smiley from preaching
iu any Of their pulpts Mrs. Stanton, before an-
nouncing her purpose, diasects the action Of tho
Presbytcry with worry keen knife, it must be
admitted. 6ays Mrs. Stanton:
1naamuch IA tho Rev. Sarah smnoy Ia evidently Or
Laincd Of God to preach, ind tie people enjoy her
ministrationa and women preaching all over the
laud just as the Bible prophesicd they would do in
these days. II would be more becoming for thn little
Prosbytcry In ono corner Of the globe to bring itself
into line With the eternal law Of progress than to con-
tnue tho petty warfare the Drooalyn churches have
carried for tho aat four yearH against ono woman
Furthermore, Mrs. s. asks, ia not the mother
OF tho race moro important in tho mnrch Of civ
ilizasion than any symbols, vestmonts, aitars,
temples, or tue who1e line Of priests from Mol
cl,isodech DOWN. "Is not womanhood cheap
enough, helpless, hopeless, degraded enough,
that you cruelty her atrosh ut your very alsars Z"
"If f-sho may sing in your choirs. filling your
vast temples with hor melody; il she may 50 to
tho ends Of tho earth as missionary to the
heatlou, why may she not prcach in your pull
pits?" We fancy these are conundrums which
it will puzzle the Brooklyn presbytery 70 an
swer. Mrs. Stanton, however, promptly Sup
plies the answer, As follows: "simply because
that recognizes her equality" and adds:
No matter II tAey pray. erhort, aud preach bet
ter than the elder, deacon or minister or whethor
tho congregation and the good tather profer to hear
them, II Elder Perkins anl the Havs. French and
Evans prefer 4 man because he in = man, that Is
enough.
Having thus rcconnoiterol the position OF the
enemy. Mrs. Stanton launchos her illumination
that It is beneath the dignity Of any true woman
to enter cAuye.. or to he govarned by preH-
bytory TINT prohibits 3 woman like the Rev,
garuh Smiley from entering its pulpits. and that
the remedy for women Ia to have church OF
their own.
This Is step which it is worth while for men
to stop aud seriously consider. BY harmless
vanity, men style themselves dcacoua, and
oldors, aud presbytern, and fanoy they ure the
pillars OF tue church, when III reality, they are
no moro q support to tho church than tue
woathorcoo1 on the top Of tho steoplc. 4
ohurol. composed entirely Of women would bt
| tho most fonriahing institution on earth; .
| church composed outroly Of men, tho moat uso
leas aud worthless. The following picture, By
| Mrs. Stanton, is not oyerwroaght:
| Just imagine, Atr. Editor, how aombro MemorIa
Church will 10 when the guy ribbons, tcathers, aoun
cey aud e1ulling blaeeyed girls are al gona. TIL
blacknoas OF darkness every side, md al1enca bro
Leu only by tile tloep breathing of sleeping men
With no women hera goutly to stir thoir lords Will
1sncils, parasoS sud fans, the graceful rhetoric an
nble arguments OF Dsu Tfeucll and Evans would fal
ou dull eass indeed Think Of the faneteal chans, too
| cf tAs leep, hassh, haaa noeca When Elder perktn
shall have driven tho laM soprano CUT How long
think yau, wsnla ~ exclusively 1aals ohusah ualatA