The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1879-09-11
THE WRONGS OF WOMAN.

THE WRONGS OF WOMAN
EDITOR ADVANCE: Our educated
ideas Of women to a great extent have
been based on our religious authorities.
We have been taught that the Scrip.
ture is sacred and that every word the
Bible contains is Gods word and truth.
We have also been taught that to doubt
any of the unreasonable stories con-
tanned therein is great sin. The
IDEAS of woman, from Bible stand
point, commence with the account of
her being made from one OF Adam s
ribs,-a small quantity OF material to
manufacture a woman from, not
enough to make good sized doll baby
soon after the miserable snake induced
Eve to eat of the tree of knowledge
and she gave to her husband. After
that they knew they were naked, and
God took pity on them and turned tai
lor and dressmaker for their special
benefit.
When we reflect that the Bible was
written in barbaric age, when the
people thought God led them into the
most cruel and murderOus deeds, we
do not wonder that women were kept
subordinate to the male power In the
Bible we have SiXty-S six books and over
forty writers, all males. The three
persons in the GUulletld are OF the mas
culine gender. and even the angels that
visited the earth at that time were all
males, no female element in Heaven
then.
Perhaps that is the reason why the
sons Of God thought the daughters of
men so fair and took them for wives.
Gen. 9th chap. LIST and 2ud verses.
At the time the Bible was written
women We're lought and sold like cat
tie. LaDan demanded seven years la
Dor for each of his daughters. Men
could put away their wives and replace
them as often as they chose. III the
! book of Esther, 1st and 2ud chap, we
have an example Of this kind recorded.
King Ahaserus made Il great feast and
got drunk on wine. lie then sent for
Qneen Vashti to come before
him to show her beauty be-
fore the people. Because She did not
come the king was wroth and sent out
officers to fetch all the fair young maid
ems throughout the kingdom that he
might take his choice. But the most
remarkable part OF this story is the
| id n that these young ladies were so
filthy that they had to So through II
proc 'ss OF publication, six months with
oil Of myrrl and six months with sweet
! odors. After that each one was taken
to the king in tile evening and came
! out Oh the morrow. These girls had
no will in the matter. They were COM
manded and had to obey. In those
days if an unmarried woman was
found to be in a delicate situation she
was stoned to death or burned. Noef-
fort was made to find and punish the
guilty father. In Genesis 3Sth chap.
we find one woman who played smart
and kept the gentleman's bracelets,
signot and staff and by that means saw
ed her life.
Then righteous Lot, and Mrs. Lot,
whom God is said to have turned into
a pillar Of salt just because she mani
tested some human feelings and looked
back at the burning city. We find not
one word Of condemnation for old Mr..
Lot getting drunk and committing the
crime Of incest. When we come to the
! New Testament we have just about the
same sentiment expressed toward wo-
men.
| | Tim. 2nd chap, 18th to 18th.
LET the women learn in silence with
all subjection.''
In other places it reads LET your
women keep silence i'll the churches. -
If they want to know anything let
| them ask their husbands at home. st.
Paul says, II suffer not /; woman to
man. It reads in Peter, "Wiyps
should be in subsection to their hus-
banus,' and then brings forward old
Sarah as a model woman, because she
obeved Abraham and called him Lord.
We now come to Revelations where
we find one OF the most ahsurd. nom
sAnsical and ridiculous passages in all
the ''holy Bible" One hundred and
forty-four thousand are described as
being specially pure and holy men,
praising God CT mount Sion, before
four beasts and twenty four elders,
and then adds, These are they which
were not defiled with women for they
are virgins.''
We have now quoted enough to show
that women are represented us being
inferior to men frou, Genesis to Reval-
ations. Should persons be inspired to
write a Bible in this enlightened age
we think it would read something like
the following on this subject: We suf-
fer not m,n to usurp authority over
the woman, but we recommend that
woman should, in all respects, lie rec
oynized as thu peer of man, i'll order
that wrong, injustice and oppression
may be removed from domestic life.
There is no position which women. as
women, are not entitled to hold and
ought to be freely welcome to possess.
Let your women he teachers, preach
ers, artists, editors, reporters, account
ants. doctors or lawyers, as many are
already. Let the women strive to
to maintain the place they now hold in
the scientific and literary world. Let
not the men debar woman of her in.
alienable rigts, Life, liberty and the
pursuit Of happiness For in the
Declaration of Independence it is writ.
ten that men derive their just powers
OF government from the consent of the
governed.
Above all things let the ladies be.
ware Of decievers. Go not alter him
whose feet go down to death and whose
steps take no Id on hell. For he will
Invariably push you into torment and
return back and move in good society
himself. +. A. G..
EDITOR Advances: These thourhts
were suggested to my mind by reading
the recount Of the runaWays. Mr., John
son and Mrs. Davis. The writer hat
no word Of reproach for the man ex
!: cept, "the truant James.'' But Mrs
Davis had taken the path of her whose
fleet go down to death ~ Il whose
steps take hold on hell" This led II:
to inquire into the reason why if Il wo
, man commits social sin, she is kicked
down to the very DEPTHS of infam,
while man moves in the same societ,
and pursues the same business or cali
ing. L. G..
TIE WAY SHEEP PAYNE cite thu
following as a very fair one Of the man,
examples that come to our notice @