Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-07-23


But the nelted wax for sealing
Should be used while it may Weld:
Woman. if the. wax be plant,
IN Thy name may il be sealed. ''a
In thy cause and in thy keeping,
In thy power and control,
In fair Eden it We're proven
Thou art master of the soul:
Then if thou hast seen the serpent
That heguilingly hath led,
Surely thou dost know his cunning.
And thy heel may bruise his head.
The Bible IN Favor of Woman's Suf-
trage
Opponents OF equality before the
law are very fond OF quoting Paul's
command to the women of the church
at cortnth: LET your women keep 81
lence in the churches And some a.
gree that upon this one sentence hangs
the destiny of all womankind. But we
;lre glad to find that God is more liber-
al tlian man, and that this subject as
we'll as many others cannot be fairly
treated by taking single passages from
different chapters. The Bible as a
whole emphatically teaches woman's
| equal ity, or. If the order Of creation
means anything we might infer her
superiority. We find God gradually
advancing in his work from the inor-
ganio earth to- the mineral Kingdom,
then The vegetable. next the animal
kingdom, and last Of all making man
from ihe dust of the earth. Now ev-
cry one is ready to admit that Eve was
| madejof finer and less crude material.
which suggests her higher qualities.
rather than mans superiority. And
God said Let them have dominion
over all the EARTH So, Givinely crown
ed
| THESE twain
| Sill side ny Side. fill-sllmme1 III AL be'r rbw'rs
Sellleyerent each. and reserFncing each:
| Dist met in individuaities.
| Bul like each other. rs are those ihat love"
| Thus we find them in their natural and
divine relationship, before the fall.
Nowhere. before the fall, do we. find
a hint Of woman's subordnation, and
| it is not the divinely instituted plan
! but a direct result Of sin. And yet we
are told that the present condition is
the ideal state of the sexes. and that il
is wrong to attempt a change. AS well
might one argue that 'thorns and this
ties" are an ideal state of nature anC
censure the husbandman for his efforts
to rid the soil of weeds and improve its
products. Because God sail:"ln the
sweat Of thy face shalt thou eat bread
must we deem it q crime for man to
make his tasks lighter By the use Of
machinery? Again, the whole object Of
Christ was to restore what was los ir
Adam by the fall.
I If Christianity is to complete the
work. how can it stop short of com
pletely restoring The lost estate to wo
man, and aholishing the subordinatior
which the Bible teaches is the direct
result OF sin.
As to Paul, his letters were written
not us magma charta Of personal
rights but from the high platform OF
love. lie claimes the right tc receive
compensation for labor, but refuses it
says he has u right to eat meat of any
kind, but that If SO doing offends his
| brother OF different belief he will eat
no meat while the world stands. lie also
says: "Let no man seek his own but
| every man his neighbors go@d.'
Now his command to the women to
keep silent in the church vas deemed
best at that time just the same rs he
| thought it best for the Jews and
Romans ret to confess Christ in He.
brew or Latin at Corinth unless an IN
terpreter was present, bnt he does not
say the women do not have the right
| to speak in public, nor that the Jews
and Romans do not have the right to
confess Christ in any Ian guage they
| choose.
And tc make the subject still clearer
he lifts them all on high, broad plat
form of Christian love and liberty by
| his grand declaration: "There Is Meth.
er Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond
nor free, there is neither male nor fe.
! male. tor We are all orein Christ } Jesus
We are truly glad the Bible is such an
advocate of equal rights, fer with the
divine sanction we are encouraged in
the belief that the time is not far dis,
! tant when the noble men OF cur land
| will gladly restore the fallen ero"n to
woman and lead her back to Edenlc