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this can BIS possible, then indeed vas c,,,,.
the "frecklcd whe1p, not honored with ,,n..s
shape," thing OF be.uty and 4 1oT fore,,,
compared with Shakespeare,
W0HEN AS PREACHEps

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There is possibility Of more work abs,a !.
tho Pnttons Of Presbyterian;sn. Prot. p,...
rs will be- remembered, won hin frat no,..:.,
laurels in his contest with DR.. Cuyler: VIII, -,
allowed the eminent and good Quakers.a ~
Smiley, to preach in his pulpit. He routed y.
Doctor, and vanquished the lady. In hi, ,,~.
bout, however, he tackled 4 man, and 70, ro,,.
ed. Now the question has been sprunz n,,.
the General Assembly At st. Louis, COMM. :
tho shape Of IN overture from the Roct D..
Qll.) Presbytery, desiring to know if Paul. l.,
guase concerning the preaching and pra,in, =,
women in public should be interpreted ut.,,n.
and whether it applies to the praying Of ron.'
at the weakly prayer-meetings. Dr.. Hor,,,
Crosby, Of New York, very radical P,..h,.
terian, whose viems have been much comm4n..,
on Of late In the Church, was in f.Yor 0, II.
affirmative. Judge Drake, tho represens.t, NJ
Calvin, WAS opposed Dr. Altman thoaeb. :,
men should Mother preach nor pray in nnhr,
and DR.. Blain thought they should; and th7.tb.
discussion went on, pro aud con, until it th,,,t,
ened to disturb tho newly y-cemonted union Of II,
two bodies, when it was 1eleg.ted to , or-4
nittee.
The Peraian poet saadi said woman was !, d.
bottom Of everything. The discussion % til,
question partially confirms the truth Of Il,
Oriental poet. and, before the Genar,l A,..n.
bly, gets through with the question, thsy zia
find that woman Is not only ut the bottom Of r.
Church, but that she 30 thoroughly per,adAsk
and is SO closely interwoven with it, md that.i.
SUCCESS of the Church is so'dependen. upou he-
that they cannot evade the issue. It il 4 ques.
ton which the Assembly ahould seriously eon.
slider, How long the Church wcn1d exist without
women7 The men go to General AstsmbGs.
ings Of the Church, and wraug1e go 10 religion,
services. and sleep pay pew-rent, and g1urah]a
at it. But WOMAN goes to tho pnys.
meetings.; looks after the Religions sd..
cation Of youth cheers the minister; eomposes
the large majority Of church attendance ksen
up the music provides for the works Of charity:
manages tho sabbath-school; and does thszask
without which the Church would become fnan-
cially and spiritually insolvent. II women, then,
are expected to do the real work Of Church
and bear the heat and burden Of the dsy; il thsy
arc good enough and smart enough to provide
means for paying for the music, for furnishing
the church, for devising ways to meet
its current expenses, for consoling and sust,ia-
ing the minister for keeping up tho religious il
terest,-whY are they not good enough to p1e:eh
and pray, II they aro SO disposed and hare Hs
requisite talent? No one will deny that ths
public prayer Of truly good woman his n@s
effect than the prayers Of dozen men. Thar
is no reason to suppose that the sermons al
women would be less effective. Religion nca
thing Of the head, but Of the heart. doa
not appeal to the roason, but to It'll,
hope, and the emotional in hunxn III
ture. Woman is peculiarly full Of fill,
hopeful, and emotional, and is, theretors, better
fitted by nature for advocating the cl&m Of
religion than man. There ia scarcely PresbJ-
ter in this General Assembly who Is not in fk1or
OF women doing crusade work. and praying IN
saloons, on sidewalks, st1eet-corners, and othet
public places. II they are ready to saddle a4ch
work upon them, why in the nAmo Of al that u
reasonable shall they not pra3 and preach in
church7 But, say the sspient Presbyters, Paul
has forbidden it. It is not ireverent to saJ th.t
Paul has no more to do with it than Gen Grant
And. II he has. Paul's admonitions apply with
equal force to the cTussding operations. tma1
be that the Presbytery is disturbed BY the proa-
pect that, if women go 10 preaching, they nt
take large part Of the business out OF the haod.
OF men. But, it they can do the work betsef
than men, then it is for the interest Of raligaa
that they bo allowed to do it, End the interssa
OF religion are paramount to tho interests ot ssa
ministers.