The Worthington advance., 1882-09-07
THE NEW YORK CHURCH
UNION.
".
THIN WORTHIN0TOV ADVANCE.

The New York Church Union Of Au-
gust 18th contained the following article:
THE CHURCH AND REFORM.
"When Susan B. Anthony said
to me few days since that we shall
never get the ballot tin we have the
cooperation of the praying church
women, she qualified her declaration
speedily by Saying in \ strangely pitt
&0l tone. II mean they are such
them. Not that their prayers would
5ufluence with them." IL the praying
women of this land had done tile work
Miss Anthony has done these past many
years, we should not be obliged ito meet
the insult and ignominy of the politician
voted In by the majority Of the rum
sellers.-''N. Y. Church Union"
Alas! for Susan B. and her sex. The
praying church wome nwill never claim
tho ballot till their priests and their
creeds claim it for them, and that win
never he. No, it women ever secure the
ballet generally land they surely willy,
e will Oe wrenched from the he-govern-
msnts and the he-political systems by
women and men who stand outside and
ab.,ve all petty churches aud priests.
It will come through the mighty works
Of s0.called 1ntidels, just as the anti
slavery cause was fought through by
those who stood outside ana above the
churches and had to fight tire slavish
priests and slavish church people even
In Boston. Every reform comes
through 'Inilels' simply because the
clergy and the churches den0unce ew-
cry new movement as 'iNfdel7 until 1t
becomes too strong for them, and then
they Jump in and claim they had hand
in this g q reform!' OF course We
except such men as Beecher, who are
always at the front in reforms, but
where there Is one Deecl,er there are
Sc, 800 clergymen in America who op-
pose reforms until the infidels have
made them Observation-Disclosures,
Mimi ADVANCE.
One would hardly think that the
writer Of the above comments on our
inn0cont little editorial note concern
Ing Miss Anthony and woman suffrage,
was Abraham Perry Miller, the author
OF the exquisite little poems recently
published in THE CHURCH UNION.
breathing in every line the spirit OF
prayer, love, faith and trust-the very
essence vt the gospel proclaimed by
the dpvr,ted followers of Christ, whom
he affects to despise. But we are com.
PEELED to say that it is 50. The poems,
We have said. would do no discredit to
Whittier, I.Ongfellow. or Bryant; the
cOiE ments above are of the style and
spirit Of the ''Police Gazette"
We will do the author the credit to
say, as we verify believe, that the real
man, the heart, the soul, spoke In the
poems, while the comments above are
bat the affectation Of = progressive
philosophical development. named
spiritualism. ar some other of the my
Jtad unwholesome fruits of progressive
free t!l0uRht falsely so called). We
are sure the conscientious safter-thOught
OF ANY man that has ever been the ac-
eeRted child of our Heavenly Father
aud faithful disciple of Christ, will Ger
k,sin&y. in due time. return to the only
WSrtl,y object Of mans following.
MISS Anthony is y good worker, Miss
Frances willard is another g0ad wor-.
ker. Let Es lock over the works and
Eeanlts Of the lal)ors Of these two
~resaes. When works and prayers are
united tar Tre:rter results have been
attained. - .--a,s
1t is certainly very encouraging
fact that woman suffrage is to feel the
need Of the help of the praying woman
of this country, il no higher value is
placed upon them than their numeric- |
II valMe. Tie praying women who
have the spiritual experience OF the
witness Of the Spirit with their spirits,
tn knowledge. in their he:l,ts, that
God hears and answers their prayers
aud groanings Of spirit that cannot he
uttered, will not be annililatpd by such
declarations as the above. When men
and women progress beyond the teach
tngs Of the Scriptures. their life work
u always less valuable to humanity.
They haild on the sand and lave no
SounAsstien for the mselves or for 9TH
0rR. =- ,,--' D; 49, ;,
It would be a sad view Of the matter
10 think that the poems were written
years ago, and were the expression of
the real man then, while tl,e above is n
erue expression 1T his present mental
and morxl condition. We do not take
this view of the ease. We tl,ink better
ct human nature, weak as it is, and all
the time subject to Temptations, than
% believe that the cultured brain. the
tender heart. the noble soul. which
were visible in every stanza at the pe:
ems. could, even in an ordinary life
time, rrtrOgrade to the low level Of the
above extract.