The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1885-06-10
A Won ner'S inGdeiity.

The entertainments 4t Memorial Han
Ninth street and Girard avenue, SUNDAY
evening began. before crowded audi
ence containing many women, BY some
weak solo play n on a weak piano by
weak performer. Then a gentleman
IL ectacles aud Napoleouic NOUS tache
saug Gouuod' Ava Maria" in Latin.
which most OF the audience IaIstook fol
French and did not know was scored.
Then pink-Iaced, yellow haired youth
arose and announced that the woman
who braves the shafts Of superstito
and the ostracism of society" Miss
1Iclcn Gardner, would deliver discourse
on Man, Women and God. " When the
talr-haired youth sat down there arose a
pretty little woman, with dark hair and
eyes and very white beriug hands, which
she took every opportunity to display
by using large scarlet fan. She was
dressed IN black velvet, the sombre tint
OF which was set OIL bv pure white
handkerchief stuck in the breast and
white tulle ruchings at her pretty
throat and wrists. She spoke in a rath-
er weak, hlgAstrung voice, with a deci-
dedly nasal accent, every now and again
complaining of the noise made by pass
inc trains and street cars and saving
that she could compete with the clergy,
but not with a locomotive.
She said she had come to tell her au-
dience why She didn't believe in the
Bible being written under Gods inspi-
ration and expected to make GOOD
many women think the same way he
fore she was done. She was supposed
n, Il tA,, L., . nj
ing on the sea, the apple story aud
many others, but she couldn't do ii
without making a wry face. The rea- on
she dlsbelieved i'll the Bible was because
1t bcllttled women. All wickedness. so
the Bible said, was due to woman. She
couldn't help thinking when she was in
Kansas. little while ago, that if it
hadn't been for Eve wanting to know
too much there wouldn't have been 50
many grasshoppcrs there, at which the
audience laughed Theology and com
mon sense, said the little lady, have not
much to do with each other. There is
no book known to man which tells Of a
more brutal, fierce and unjust God than
the Old Testament, unless it be the
New one. If the Bible laws were in
IN the streets of America, and foT what
/ am saying tonight should not be al
lowed to live another day
She made several quotations from the
Bible, among others one from the Book
of Numbers in which Moses is ordered
to take summary judgment of 10000.
women. That >Qne chapter" she said,
''settles the truth about the inspiration
of the Bible for me. I give Jehovah
the benefit of the doubt and don't be-
lieye He inspired it, at which there
was immense applause and laughter.
She said that if the Bible was fit to be
taught TO men as the word and will of
God it ought to be fit to read before
Liberal League but it wasn't.
The morals of the nineteenth centu-
ry have outlived the morals of the Bible
and | mean to do what lies in my pow
er to DO away with jtG influence. | am
told ought 10 respect and love the Bi-
BILE and help to send it to the heather
to show them how good jehovah is to
His daughters, but don't think the God
Of the Bible is safe Chief Magistrate.
at any rate, not for women" She then
icered at the opinions of st. Paul and st.
Peter regarding women and said: ''Wo-
men at present possess partial freedom
and 1t is not owing TO religion nor to Je-
hovah. but to men who have been grand
enough and brave enough to disobev His
commands.' She told many stories
about Moses, David. Samuel and Lot,
and asked her audience if they supposed
them to be true, that, at any rate, she
didn' t. Finally. her lecture beng over
an old gentleman, wha had been sitting
quietly by reporter taking in all she
said, whispered softly
:'Well, guess the cause is getting
pretty sick when it's got to have cham
ptons like her. Blamed if she ain'tmost
enough to make me believe their is a
God . Then he got up and lett