Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-20
A WoMAN'S VIEW OF THE LATE
BAPTIST CONVENTION.

EDS. RECORD UNION May we yet further
tax your forbearanee and that of your read
ers by taking up the gauntlet contemptuously
tossed at us by Baptist of Tuesday !?
With no pious recognition of Him "who
bringeth to naught the counsels of wicked
men said Baptist seeks the causes of an
inglorious defeat in the circumstance that
majority of those who succeeded in voting
down certain resolutions were women Time
has been when our lords were pleased to dwell
with obsequious and patronizing and indul-
gent grace upon woman as first in every
good word and work, Sc first at the sepul-
cher, last at the cross" ETC., ad infnitum.
Granting that the majority were women,
which is yet to prove; ignoring also the weight
of brain-and we might add muscle-of the
male minority cast in the winning balance
the reasons the valid and honorable reasons,
of the woman's victory are not far to seek.
We have said reasons-for what is instinct
but reason sublinated? Instinct won. The
instinct of what was fit and timely, humane
and womanly, wifely and motherly. Super
added was the memory of an inspired admon-
ition, Love as brethren; be pitiful be
COuTltOuS. lie HeulOIJ also Vi d J6nQer
and pitying utterance, " Let him without sin
cast the first stone" OF old we have heard
the maxim. 'Speak only good of the dead"
Shall public sentiment denounce the shame
less jeers and jibes over the cold body of De
Young? Shall similar sentiment enjoin a re.
spectful and even sympathetic silence in the
presence of that devoted mother and sisters,
while we, so-called body of Christian
brothers and sisters grow clamorous be-
fore parents sorrow, so recent SO terrible,
so overwhelming? Shall we forget that
son, first born, hitherto blameless and hon
ored, is practically dead and coffined.
Who can doubt that the mothers grief
were comparative joy, if the body of that
beloved son were laid peacefully away in
an honored grave, his soul at rest in the bosom
of the All Father, aid the hearts that love
him forever ''quiet from fear of evil" $40
everything there is season, time to keep
silence and time to speak, and surely every
true woman's heart among us cried out against
the indignity-I had almost said the indie
cency-of casting stone, even indirectly, at
that poor mother, whom hitherto we had all
delighted to honor; that stricken mother,
who at the self-same hour was lying crushed
and PROSTATE, even unto death, in our very
midst. No marvel that prominent "out-
slider la man, too, mark you), voiced the
sentiment of the community and exclaimed
in frenzy of indignation, 'Do you say
that body of Christians are prejuding your
case, prosecuting and reviling at such an hour
as this? Why don't you get quit of them
| wouldn't belong to such an outfit for a hun
dred thousand dollars" Moreover, it was
doubtless true that many mother of the
oft.abused " minister's son" tremblingly be-
thought her of the injunction, Judge not
that ye be not judged, for with what judg-
ment ye judge We shall be judged, and with
what measure We meet it shall be measured
to you again" Many mother may also
have felt the injustice of making parents re-
sponsible for the derelictions of their children
and shrank from the possibility of Offering
indignity to heads more reverend and more
hoarY than DIR. Kalloch's Possibly such
apprehension may have brought weakness
and indecision into the ranks of the van
pushed. Moreover, the alleged necessity Of
some deprecatory resolutions-lest our posi-
ton be misunderstood strikes me, will con-
fess, not only as superhuous. but as waste
full and ridiculous excess" Have we fallen
| SO low as to need such standardization !?
Methinks not Charles Reade has written
" A woman never talks of justice unless she
| is about perpetrating some monstrous in
justice" When every peccadillo of infidelity
of my sex must call forth from me q loud
] and flaming declaration of war;" surely
! my own virtue must be of very questiona-
BILE order" thin as the stuff that dreams
are made Of" The honest man need not and
will not stoop to self-defense and noisy de-
nunciation of roguery. We need not revert
to the well-knowH polity of Baptist churches,
their independency of each other, nor to the
shrewd suspicion afoat that anything calcu-
lated TO influence the action of the civil
tribunals would be quickly resented and
summarily "quashed" by Mayor Kalloch's
counsel. Nor should this article be construed
into his defense; but rather as defense of
good manners and of good morals. P.