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The Woman's Bible.

I -ArkanSaW Ladies' journal
The Woman's Bible.
Parties are now at work culling from
the Bible every verse containing anv
reference to woman. Each person
takes two Bibles and runs through
them from Genesis to Re, Citations mar
king all the texts concerning women.
The passages are then cut out and past
ed in a blank book and commentaries
| written underneath. The design is to
have it printed with the texts in fine
print and the comments in coarser type.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who is
very liberal in her religious views is
much interested in the work and says
in Woman's Tribune that she will state
the plan; as concisely as possible, upon
which those who have been in consul
tation during the summer propose to
do the work.
l. The object is to revise only those
texts and chapters directly referring to
women, and those also in which women
are made prominent by exclusion. AS
all su;h passages combined form but
one tenth Of the scriptures, the under
taking will not be so laborious as, at
the first thought one would imagine.
These texts, with the commentaries,
can easily be compressed into duodec-
imo volume OF about four hundred pa
ges.
II. The commentaries will be of a
threefola character, the writer's in the
different branches selected according
to their special aptitudes for the work:
l. Two or three Greek and Hebrew
students would be required to devote
themselves to the translation and the
meaning of particular words and texts
in the original.
2. Others would devote themselves
to Biblical history, old manuscripts,
| to the new version, and to the latest
theories as to the occult meaning Of
certain texts and parallels.
3. For the commentaries on the
plain English version a committee Of
some twenty members would be neces-
sary. These would be women Of earn
estness and liberal ideas, who would be
quick to see Che real purport Of the BIZ
nle as regards their sex. Among them
the various books OF the Old and New
Testament would be distributed, max
ing about three books to each member
of the committee.
III. There will be two or more edi-
tors to bring the work of the various
committees into one consistent whole
Nv. The completed work will be
submitted to an advisory committee
assembled at some central point, rs
London, New York, or Chicago, to sit
in final judgement Oh the Woman's BIZ
BILE.
The United States courts having de
i cided that "women are citizens and may
be made voters by appropriate state
legislation" demand should be made
upon the legislatures for states con
ferring municipal suffrage, preside7
tial suffrage, and all other forms Of
suffrage permitted by the respective
state constitutions, and subsequently
for constitutional amendments abolish
ing all political distinctions on account
Of sex, also upon congress for statute
enfranchising women ii the territorie!
and for a sixteenth amendment to tn.
) federal constitution.
: The National Weman's Suffrage AS
ISOLATION will celebrate at Washington
j D.. G., in 1883, the fortieth anniversar,
2 Of the first woman suffrage convention
ever held. At this time a Worlds
Woman Suffrage Association will b.
, formed, and advocates of this reform
in all countries arc invited to partici
pate.
"When / see a baby in it's mother
lap throw up its chubby hands ant
crow With delight, think that some
where i'll the air, or in the condition o
things there IS Il baby joke too fine TO
my grosser nature to perceive"
. [Frank Beard in a Chalk Talk at Mono
ma Assembly.
The eighteenth annual meeting o
the American Woman Suffrage AS
ISOLATION was helt! at Topeka, Kansas
October Goth, 9th, and 18th. Amon'
!, other resolutions the following wa
adopted
r itt::e name Of Elk Mound, WIS, ha
t been changed to Amy. in honorof Mis-
! Amy Kellogg. president OF the Woman
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