St. Landry democrat., 1885-01-31

TO be their wives. It Noah and his
sons had married some one else, the
ones that were saved would not have
been saved. It was Noah's righteous
ness that saved the women. And when
God directed the Ark to be built, he in
structed Noah, not Noah's wife. And
afterwards, when the sin introduced by
Eve still grew and increased so as to
lead nearly all human kind astraY from
God, and He determined to build up a
nation that would hold to His holy
laws, He called upon the man Abraham.
And still later when the time came for
the children of Israel to go up out of
the land of Egypt, He called upon
Moses to lead them, and upon Joshua to
be their military chief, and upon Aaron
to be the high priest of their church.
Passing down the long line of inspired
prophets, from Moses to Jesus Christ,
there is nothing to show that women
had any voice in the government of the
Jewish church, but the laws of Moses
debarred them from it. Christ's apos-
ties were all men and at the private
meetings or reunions of Himself and
disciples, even at the meeting when the
sacrament Of the Lords supper was in
stituted, there were no women present.
A perusal of the letters of the apostle
Paul will show that under his admins
tration, while women had the same
spiritual privileges in the church as
men, they had no part in the govern
ment of it.
Woman's sphere is not government,
either of army, State, or church; and a
church without men would be as devoid
OF good government as State without
men, and about as much church mill
tant, except for internal strife, as an
army without men.
The most beautiful feature to us in
Judaism, is the absence of any pretence
to So called woman's rights among the
Jewish women. They seem to be con-
tent and happy in being the helpmates
of their husbands; which removes them
as far from domestic slavery as it does
from woman's rights. This wOman's
rights doctrine is the new Tempter, the
modern Satan that is disturbing the
women. Rabbi Leucht had better let
the women remain as they are and not
try to make men of them or put them
| in mems places if God had intended
| them to be men he would have made
| them SO.
Last Saturday at about noon one
dynamite explosion occurred in the
Tower of London, and two in the Par
lament house. Parliament was not in
session, but there were large number
of visitors, including women and chill
dren, at both places. The dynamite
was in four or FIVE pound packages, and
lighted with fuse, regulated to burn a
certain number of minutes, allowing the
dynamiters to escape before explosion.
| 1t is thought certain that the packages
were introduced by being concealed I'M
der women's cloaks. Great damage was
done to the buildings, especially to the
Parliament buildings estimased at
$35O,OOO. But strange to say, no person
was killed, and not many wounded. A
policeman picked up one of the burning
packages, and tried to extinguish it;
but the fuse burned too fast for him and
he had to drop it, when it Immediately
exploded. 1t was thought he was NOR
tally wounded, but there is now hope
of his recovery. All the governments
that have spoken officially, and the
press generally, including the Irish pa
pers, condemn this outrage on life, prop
erty and civilization.