The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-05-31

that this enlarged sphere has robbed her
OF single virtue or despoiled charm?
She Is better wife, rs steCtiOnate a
mother, and reigns more the queen OF the
home when her mind Is stored with the
richest thought and culture; she has
taken her place behind the merchants
counter, and keeps the books she deity
counts the money in the Treasury and has
never yet proved a defaulter; she has
filled admirably long-needed want, the
good physician 1T the bedside Of the Sick
she has long held a prominent place as a
teacher in the schools; and IN every
church in this great city, and in the ns-
ton, the Chrlttian women, by their quiet
work, are doing more ID organize the
foraes 20 antSgonize evil and spread the
puregospel Of Christ than all the men
in such organizations, preachers lnclud.
ed. They are teachers in the Sabbath
schools, they ministea to the sick, they
illustrate the gospel In their homes, and
train the children. They give up sll
comforts aud journey to heather lands to
teach the benlghted races the truths that
have brought to them happiness.
From the nature of woman, mental
and physical, but few of them will choose
to select the pulpit as ministers OF the
gospel. But if conscience and convlc-
Ilous tell her thst this is her mission, any
Christian assembly assumes grave re-
sponsibiity that attempts to defeat her
purposes. The Christian world is over
eighteen hundred years old now, and sin
sbOunds We are told "the fields are
white for harvest, and the lsbOrers lew"
Who of the intelligent ministers OF the
General Assembly has occasioned more
good in the same number OF years than
that Christian woman Sarah f. Smiley?
Has she become masculine, or lost
any Of the graceful accomplishments Of
| woman, because she has preached every
where to throng multitudes the glad It'd
Ings Of the Gospel Have the women of
the Society of Friends, IN which she and
many others like her were educated, lost
any Of the modesty or the nobility that
| adoru the sex2 But the grave and rev.
erend fathers of the General Assembly
say to all such, keep out Of our puIplts,
cover your heads and listen, and If you
cannot understand our wise theology go
home and task your husbands" This
was good advice long time ago, before
the doors Of seminares and colleges flew
open under the pressing demands for
right and justice, and no women were
permitted TO drink at the fountains OF
knowledge and show themselves the
equals Of men.
The change that has been wrought is
Just what the General Assembly has
failed to see and appreciate. As Mrs.
Darlington would express it, "the popu-
lous minister has been dispensing with
the gospel" the many covered heads in
the pews have been busily thinking. The
Iiter-Ocean does not foreLell of any great
and sudden rebellion in the Presbyterian
household in consequence OF the action
at Pittsburgh, but 1t does say that the
General Assembly has acted more un-
wisely in flying in the face of facts, rs
they exist, than their sable Brother Jas
per in fighting the facts Of science. The
world moves, and the good Presbyterian
brotherhood have got TO move with 1t or
preach 90 empty pews, with bats fitting
above them or resting in the quictude Of
their great churches.