The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-02-01

other man. I have said nothin
Z adverse to a husband ruling over h
wife, nor to her being In subsection
him. 20 far as I am concerned,
+" woman may desire bsr husband 6
much as shs pleases, and he may rul
over her Sc much as they both please
| have not advised woman to be th
bead instead of the man. I have no
said the man is of the woman, no
q the woman Of the msn. Though
o believe that the universal testimonr
OF accoucheurs Is that man ia born o
woman aDd woman is not born o
, man. Ia the law and the testimony
. l read, Among those that arc borr
of women, there is not s greats
prophet thsz john the Baptist. u
. God sent fof+h his Sen, made of g
woman" have Aot advised woman
10 usurp authority ever the man.
But il man invests her with authority
that is not usurpation. l have not
advised woman TO teach in the
, church, although for a respectable
woman not to speak in public was a
Grecian rather than an Israelitish
custom. The Roman's bill in the
! House does not provide for Woman's
| teaching in the church. As for
woman keeping silence. Paul might
have preferred a silent partner. II
go, that was his private business and
taste. Some say be was an cid
bachelor, and some that be was an
old Widower. But, either way, pos
sibly he was a little sGured on the sex.
Few women are silent. l would
rather bsVe a chattering woman
than silent che fGr G companion.
4 bit of scold is better than a per-
feet mute. So Iles woman talk when
she pieases, ss it is not courteous to
tell her to "shut up" do not de-
liEe children to be my oppressors, nor
women to rule oyer me, nor have |
sought to bring any such things
about. But I have not read in the
Law and the testimony any such pas
sage as "Woe unto you when women
rule over you" which Ben TaEker
claims is there, leaving out about the
children. Ben's memory must be
none OF the brightest. If I say that
women have occupied high public
station, and quite as much to the
public benefit as many men have, l
simply reiterate the patent facts of
history, sacred and profane. But 1
am not responsible for those facts.
In profane history, facts OF that kind
will occur to every intelligent mind.
But as Ben Tasker seems to be o
Biblical student, I will refer him to
sacred history. If he will read the
fourth and fifth chapters of Judges,
he will find that Deborah, wife of
Lapidoth, was great woman, 9 good
woman, devout woman, patriotic
woman, a prophecies before the
Lord, and q Judge ia Israel. she
found her people in trouble and in
subjectiou to their enemies, and the
country Was languishing. She in
quired of the Lord and from him
gave BarAk commandment to 60 up
and attack Sisera, the captain of the
heat OF JAbin, King of Canaan, with
the promise that the Lord would
deliver sisera and his army into
Barak's band. Barak said he would
go if Deborah would go with him,
otherwise he would not. Deborah
said che wogld surely 60, and she
went. But il consequence OF his
un#illingness che said the journey
should not be for his honor, ''for the
Lord should sell Eisera into the hand
of s woman" BArak and Deborah
vent with 10000 men up to Mount
Tabor. Now let me quota from the
lay and the testimony, for Ben
Takers particular benefit, as little
Scripture gOes 3 great way in az
argument Wiah him and many other
people: .
sand Deborah said usso BarRk,
Up; for this Is tAe day in which the
Lord hath delivered Sisera into thine
hand: is not the Lord gone out
before thee? So Barak went down
from Mount Tabor, and 10000 men
after him. And the Lord discounted
Sisera, and all his chariots. and all
his host. with the edge of the sword
before Barak; so that Sisera lighted
down of his cbario! and fed away on
his feet. But Barsk pursued after
tae chariots, and after the host,
unto Harosheth OF the Gentiles: and
an the host of Sisera fell upon the
edge of the sword; and there was not
mar left. Howbeit, Sisers fed
away on his feet to the tent Of
Jael."
Jael killed Sisera as he slept, and
the law and the testimony gees on to
say, $50 God subdued on that day
Jabin the King OF Canaan before the
children of Israel. And the hand of
the children OF Israel prospered, and
prevailed against Jabin the King of
Canaan, until they had destroyed
Jabin the King Of Canaan"
Alter this victory and deliVerance
DsborAh and Barak sang a song OF
triumph and praise to the Lord, in
which Deborah said, SIN the days OF
Shsmgar the con of Ansth, in the
days of Jael, the highways we're IN
occupied, and the travellers walked
through byways. The inhabitants OF
the villages ceased, they ceaseu IN Is
rael, until that Deborah arose, that
I arose q mother in Israel."
/ All this great deliverance came
under the inspired direction Of an in
spired prophecies and Judges, and
1.-THE Law and testimony goez further on
tc say, "Ahd the land had rest forty
years"
Perhaps have notread and studied
: the Bible go much as Ben Tasker has,
but so far as have read it, I have
/ net observed therein any law, atssute,
8 command or injunction 20 the effect
/ that woman shall not hold any public
3 Office whatever. So that the law to
r keep woman out of Office was not
8 taken from the Bible, nor founded
$ on it. but was made by the represen
8 tatiye3 of our msle population, no
!. of the womeD, fer that law va
? enacted before the women were al
lowed 10 have voice in the choice Q
o even men 20 hold Office, TO say meth
S Jog of the choice of women for the
+ purpose. -, 49,. ,..,.