Wichita eagle., 1886-11-25
THE BIBLE AND WOMAN
To me Edltot - the Eagle

on every point of the statement made by
A. T. L.; IN other words took the cudgei
he thought to WELD upon me, and belabor-
cd him with it till his ideas are confused
He can only console himself with the re-
Election that he drew it upon himself. /
took up the proposition he presented that
man is the head, and woman the heart of
creation. " and discussed the fitting appro-
priateness of the analogy. The flight Of
fancy" was his, but the discussion of the
theme he presented clipped his wings, and
like Darius he fell; but he should vent his
chagrin upon the wings, not on me. One
cannot expect to soar any great distance on
WORKOUT feather busters.
A. T. L. speaks with so much certainty
of the coming kingdom, and the affairs
of the Almighty" that presume he can
tell us within a fraction how much mate
rial it took to make wings for John the
Baptist" and settle the long disputed issue
rs to whether Paul sings bass or tenor. 1t
would be a much wOrthier occupation than
stalking around in the Wondering grave
cloths of Judaism, trying to feed an en-
lightened community upon theological pills
compounded of the cut and dried roots OF
a NEUROLOGICAL tree that drew its nour-
ishment from the animal age
of man, and flourished in the manner Of
tradition. twenty-five years ago \. L. T..
and others of his ilk took the authority of
the church and the Bible to prove that the
south had God-given right to the negro,
body and soul He used his feather buster
then to soar upon the divine foundation
of American slavery; hasn't he lived long
enough TO prove the falacy Of Bible arSu-
ment
TheAshackles have fallen from the negro.
A. l.. T. is no stongcr at the polls than the
poor African ex-slave, and he will to see
women emancipated and secure and pro
tected in that privilege of franchise which
this great and wise Republic intrusts to the
custody of anarchial, communistic, pauper-
lied foreigners, within few months after
their being emptied upon our shores, and
denies to twenty-One millions of industri
oSs, moral, intelligent taxpaying women
i'm some of the cpisties Of Paul he tells
us that the story of Abram and Sara, Ha-
gar and Ishmael is allegorical. If some OF
the Old Testament reoitals are allcgorical,
we may as reasonably conclude that Adam s
fall and Ewes disobcdiencc is also an ale
CORY Certainly no person Of average in
telIigence ever considers the story of our
first parents of any authenticity speak
of the second chapter of Genesis but if he
still wishes to retain the Old Testament
as inspired authority or divine teaching we
will find it a dangerous ,vlumc, for 1t
sanctions wholesale murder, lust,
idolatry, dishonor, MormOnism, slav-
cry and concubinagc. This inspired
word of God" is more pcrncious in
its precepts than the adventures OF Dick
Turpin" or the Trials of an escaped
Nun" Keep it on high shelf out'of the
children's reach, but close this part of the
sacred volume and take up the New Tesla
ment, roll away the deepening gloom of
ares and in the sacred and mysterious
epochs Of Savior's life, the incarnation,
birth. life, death and resurrection Of Jesus,
stands revealed woman as the browning,
foremost figure in Holy Writ. Last at the
or oss. first at the tomb we find a woman.
st. Paul makes honorable mention of the
fair daughters of Phillip who ''labored
with him in the ministry of the Gospel.
He tells the Corinthian women how they
should wear their wells when they prophe
sled, or preached, as all concede, and in
Acts Hi, Peter tells US, first that women
had the right Of uttcrance and the gift OF
prophesv on the day of Pentecost. Second,
that the Prophet Joel had pro phesied thai
she would preach in the last days. Third,
that we belong to the dispenSation in which
women are appointed to preach. Now
take ancient history, go with me to the
Nicine library where we will find accumu-
lated the historical and religious lore of the
world and gathering up the testimony
of Eusebius, Justin Martyr and Ireneus,
and other fathers of the church, you will
find that the whole extraordinary gift of
prophecy was given to others beside the
Apostles. not only in the first and second
but in the third and fourth centuries,
even to the days of Constantine men of all
sorts and ranks, and women too, had this
gift St. Augustine, the negro saint of the
Catholic church, who owed his conversion
and goodness IF he had any) to women,
taught that women are inferior to men and
have greater proneueSs to evil and TO have
dealings with the Evil one. st. Chrysostine
taught the same, and both these men were
tigure-head fathers in a church that veneer
ated a woman as the mother of God. and
taught her devotees that she stood as me-
diator between Jesus Christ and the sinner
How was this glaring inconsistency TO be
remedied? Simply by issuing Papal bill
declaring it to be dogma Of faith that the
virgin Mary was immaculate in her con-
ception; had been prepared by God. the
father. from the beginning of time. to be
the sinleSs mother Of His son. thus robbing
all women Of the honor which might accrue
to them in one Of their number being the
mother Of Divinity" Augustine and
ChrysoStine were vindicated. and through
their representation was begun and promul-