The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-01-26


N. j.. for allowing lady to talk temperance
cussion In religious and social CIRCLES. The
following are some OF the comments which
have come under our notice:
The Presbyterians were not always 80 OPP
posed to woman'e rights as their action in the
case OF Rev. Mr.. See would seem to indicate.
In 1860, the Presb yterians were holding con-
yention at Olathe, Kan, when II. b. Blackwell
and his wife were announced to speak in the
same place on woman suffrage. The use OF
the church in which the convention WAS held
Was immediately rendered for the use OF the
suffrage apostles, and the members OF the con-
vention showed the most hearty approval of
the sentiments uttered.
In the course OF his speech in the case OF Mr..
See, DR.. Craven said: az / believed that
decision in my favor would drive two thirds OF
the women out Of the resbyterian church,
would still have done as / have DONE" We
would have no objections to the result so far
~ the women would DO concerned. but what
would become OF us old Adams? Think OF that?
Eve was driven out OF Eden, but did she not
raise Cain aud did not Adam follow her into
the bowling wilderness? And then our social
prayer meetings-two or three old Adams to
twenty or thirty meek-eyed Eves-what would
become Of them 7-Chicago Interior.
A lady in attendance upon the trial OF Rev.
Mr.. See was heard to say "Oh, these doctors
Of divinity these doctors Of divinity they are
killing the church OF Christ with their firstly
and secondly and thirdly. IL l was to go to
one OF these doct ors Of divinity here in Newark
and say wanted his church to use for the glory
Of God and the conversion OF sonls, he would
not let me have 1t but If asked for 1t to lee
ture IN on Az IIca or the sources OF the Nile, or
for some theatric performance At 81 ticket
he would let me have 1t, il / would divide the
rec eipts. Woman may talk of anything but the
glory OF Christ. Here is Newark full Of the
devil and his works, in the churches as we'll as
without them, and feel hike raising my voice
against him. I am not allowed to do il. Now.
men are not fools il they are not professors of
religion. What does the outside world think of
such things: What does the secular press say
OF such things? But it Is all of no use the
negroes are free, and the women are going to
have their liberty"
Says the G olden Rule: The question of
woman in the pulpit. ID again agitating the
PresbyteriAns-one Of their ministers having
made test case and invoked discipline on 1t.
II the law OF 'the survival OF the fttest' were
permitted to prevail, doubtless many men who
use st. Paul's words as flaming sword to keep
women out OF their pulpi's. would soon find
their occupation gone. lth ut attempting to
discuss the question in par graph, it may be
interesting to recall what was written about ii
long ago by Nathaniel Hawthorne-a genius
who was gifted with what Joseph Cook names
the first two tests on truth-Intuition and In
sight-beyond almost any man OF his day. This
is Hawthorne's thought: 80, in tho better
order OF things, Heaven grant that the minis
try of souls may be left in charge Of women
The gates OF the Blessed City will be thronged
with the multitude that enters IN, when that
day comes The task belongs TO woman. God
meant 1t for her. He has endowed her with re-
ligious sentiment in It's utmost depth and purity,
refined from that gross, intellectual alloy with
which every masculine theologist-save only
One, VINO merely VGHeI himself IN mortal anC
masculine shape, but vas, ID truth. Divine
has been prone 10 mIngle it,
DIR. Holland it is understood, IN his new sto
ry. "Nicholas Minturn. " will undertake, among
other things, to deal with some OF the difficult
ties that surround the question as to the proper
treatment of the mendicant classes. 1t is I'M
derstood that the story will have good deal Of
faction, and that while 1t has to do mainly
with the so-called upper classes, the relation
between these and ''the great unemployed' will
DO an important phase OF the narrative. 1t ID
evident enough that the popcorn man who has
already come upon the scene may easily be
made the missing Ink in the social chain.
There id nothing III the position OF = Con-
greseman that naturally entities him to the
privileges OF dead-beating the postal depart
ment, and tie sooner congressman find out
the opipioi of the public on the subject the
better st. LOUIS Globe-Democrat.