The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1889-01-24
wOMAN's TRUE SPHERE,
Rev, u, z. Herbrueh Deanes the Posi-,
ton OfTrinity Church on Woman's
Place In the Social ReOnOmy.
He Also Anawsrs All the Questions Put
70 Him by thsVarioua Talented Writers,
Who Advocate Woman In the Pulpit


swerlng the questions which 20, W n"
puts TO me Ia your paper, viii
you please allow me 10 restate briefly
my views on "Woman's Place In tho
Social Economy"
There are two extremes In all social
questions, There 10 u class Of people
who are like the wheels Of trimmer
JOnea's mill OF which he said "fhe one
IL stationary aud the other stands atill"
People who favor no change whatever
In the existing order OF things aud are
6ternly opposed to anything like pro-
gresa, There IL another class who rush
headl0ug into every movement that N
proposed, aud who, whon once atarted
cannot stop, but keep on retorming,'
under the impulse Of their own motion,
II seems impossible for them to hold
back any more, aud they fancy that II
would be really Inconsistent ever 70
restrain themselves and brcome mod
crate again Ia their onward career
they cry to their fellow citizens "fle
Koran or the sword" and denOunce
every one who doeSnOt join In the head
long chase. between these two OK
tremes moves the pulpit Of Trinity, not
In the van, nor yet behind, but on safe,
conservative ground,
Az stated In q former article we be
long TO the fright wing" Of this move
ment, which includes far more than
some OF your correspondents have been
able 10 recognize, We direct attention
to only one Of the four special things
which II comprehenda, namely the ex'
tension Of the range Of woman's en-
Payments, without loss Of caste, In
this extension the fundamental idea
Of creation" must not DO lost sight Of,
which idea Is expressed In the language
male aud female created no th0m" aud
the subsequent command, "Be fruitful
aud multiply" or Get married and
rear children" A desire for maScu.
Unity should not DO encouraged here,
for II 10 only In heaven that We shall
"neither marry nor DO given In mar
riage, but be rs the angels" who aro all
Of the masculine gender, While on
earth u man remains q man and a
woman II woman, and God intended
that both Of them should stand In tho
marriage relation.
There Is no rule however that has no
exceptions. There arc women who for
various reasons are barred out Of the
matrimonial state, and the question Is
put to ms, "What are you going to do
with them" II Is no violence to our
theory 10 have such do what they can
without loss Of caste" and entirely In
accord with II 10 have them paid, no
men are, In the exact compound ratio
| of what they can do. We believe that
every employment should DO opened 10
them that Is not hostile to or destru0'
tive Of their w0manly nature, We
have within the past month expressed
qualification from Trinity pulpit over
The fact that the medical profession IL
open 10 women, because we believe she
Is well suited 10 NJ least n certain
branch Of the practice,
W. are pleased TO see that the legal
profession Is open 10 her also, though
there Is one department OF u not nc all
agreeable 10 her sensitive nature,
or woman In the Pulpit" we have
written with reluctance, and II was only
after certain writers on the subject had
intimated that the present management
Of the church by men was biased on
unbelievable sellshness' and bolstered
up by garbled aud obscure scripture
texts that we made any expression on
the subject whatever. We then drew q
distinction between mlnistration and
administration, advocating woman ~ q
preacher, though not as q preacher
equipped with authority TO administer
the s%aCraments, etc, Scripture passages
were cited which distinctly warranted
this discrimination and this Is The
puHoipM g1iifHg Of this discussion. II
amused me 10 observe how s|tudi0usly
the point was avoided by your CORES.
p0ndents, IL was not q m(rcenary con
slderation hut time'hon0red usage based
on scripture precedent that has shaped
matters as they are. II we are dealing
with Christians we shy 10 them, let US
take the Bible Portland settle this mat.
ter In our churches, II we are dealing
with lnldels then we say, "What Is that
TO your
We are not In favor OF woman In
political life Qhough without any
special zeal for this opinion) and would
remark that most OF the great social
and political questions have been set.
tied not by votes but by physical force,
If we may suppose legislation support
I'd largely by only afen.ale constituency
we are confronted with the impossible.
~ OF enforcing that legislation, ~ II
not an unreasonable Bupp0siti0n that
on some great, burning question which
must be settled by a resort 10 arms the
men might DO largely on one side and
the women on the other. Such . state
Of affairs, u war Of sexes, would be not
only q calamity, but u farce. The Mrs,
Dickman quoted by u interrogation
must be- very naive II she thinks that
communism, anarChiBm and the like
can be put down by ample voting.
In answer to the question about Civ
ing political franchise TO ignorant for.
eigners we say; let no ignorant man,
whether he be foreign born or native,
DO allowed to vote, The educational
test should be applied.
But TO get "back TO our mutton" We
would impress upon your readers the
Overmastering Importance Of the fam
lily. The marital relation is the normal
one for woman, and unless there Is
some very serious obstacle in the way,
she should be in II. The professions
and empl0yments referred TO here are
not or should not be opened to woman
with a view of enticing her away from
the home and the Preside, but 10 afford
her independent occupation when such
is necessary.
When "Reform Wing" suggests that
q visit 10 the industrial school would