Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-10-12

to this time the editor of the Westey, has
not expressed his opinion on the question
OF admitting women TO the General Con-
ference. He has opened the paper to both
sides, and impartially printed or noticed
everything that has cone. He speaks now,
not officially, nor to embarrass further dis
cuSsion in the Western, but as an indiyld-
ual. In the last General Conference he
submitted a proposition that the women
elect be admitted by courtesy and without
establishing thereby precedent, until the
church could vote on the amendment
making women eligible to General Confer
ence membership. He declared then his
preference for such an amendment And
now that the amendment is pending, he
heartily favors it. He reached his con-
clusion slowly, and holds it undoubtingly.
The evolution ofwoman from vassalage to
peerage with man is due to the Gospel.
An Asia Minor woman of the first century
was one thing; Methodist woman of the
nineteenth century is quite another. The
latter will never break the spirit of the
Pauline injunctions. Nature and her loy-
atty to Christ will regulate her aspira-
tions. She will be purifying and elevat-
ing element in the councils of the church.
If she ever breaches and superiutends, it
will be because she ought. She may make
mistakes in becoming adjusted to her new
relations; but the adjustment will be made,
and will satisfy her friends and pleasantly
surprise her opponents-enemies she has
not"
"The admission of women to the General
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once rulers" says the New York Christian
Adrocdte, ''for that is the supreme legisla-
tive and judicial body of the church. 1t
introduces them into the arena of debate,
and compels them then and there to con-
tend with men for the floor, and to dispute
with them. To make her the official head
of church does the same. Those who
desire the change know this; this is what
they wish, and they deny that man is en-
titled in the family or the church 10 any
such supremacy. There can be no mis-
understanding here. But if any one can
show that the Apostle was mistaken in
saving that, ~ the head of the woman is
the man. (2) that the law commanded
the woman to be in obedience, and that
the Gospel continues the requirement; (3)
that she is not to have dominion over the
man. and if any one can make clear that
he was in error in basing this upon the
fact that Adam was first formed and then
Eve-and in some way upon the fact that
the woman was originally deceived
by the tempter while Adam was in
duced to sin by love of Eve-these being
great fundamental questions of revelation
concerning both the original creation and
f,II 1f arI bA Nf
and woman in the family and the Church
he will demonstrate that st. Paul was
not inspired on fundamental questions.
When he has done this he will indeed
have accomplished his purpose as to
woman's place, but he will leave both man
and woman without the gospel of Christ.
There Is perfect harmony between the
position of woman in the family and in
the Church. If she is to be legislator
and an official head in the Church, she
cannot comply with the directions to wives
in the New Testament with relation to
their husbands. If one goes, the other
goes, and, logically, if one goes the other
should go. But God has given different
natures to the sexes. If woman must
struggle in the family with the man, rather
than acting in the order of her nature as a
helpmeet for him, the Christian family is
gone. If she and her male abettors are to
trample under their feet the plain state
ments of Gods word, the Christian Church
is gone"
The Christian Union, discussing an
article published recently by DR.. Cyrus
Hamlin in relation TO the meeting of the
American Board of Foreign Missions at
Minneapolis, says: "The American Board
was organized on cathulic basis. 1t has
no creed. 1t has never, until within the
past few years, undertaken to impose
creed on others. 1t has never tried to
constitute itself into theological court
for the determination of theological ques-
tions. Into the theological disputes
which have agitated the Congregational
Churches in times past, between Old
School and New School, Taylorite and
Tylerite, Bushnellite and antiBushnell
ite, it has never entered. With theo-
logical parties it has never identified it
self. 1t has acted on one very simple
principle: the men whom the churches
have fellowshiped it has welcomed to
its co operation at home and ordained to
its service abroad. 1t is the departure
from this policy Of the past which has
produced the present disturbance in the
Board. That departure is frankly con-
fessed by DR. Cyrus Hamlin. Questions
were asked, examinations were made by
the Prudential Committed that would
have been absurd in former days.
And this is defended on the
ground that new heresy had burst
upon them But it is equally
absurd to assert that to the conservatives
of to-day the new heresy appears more
heretical than did the doctrines Of DIR.
Bushnell to DR.. Hawes, or the doctrines of
DIR. Taylor to DR.. Tyler. 1t is even more
absure to characterize the views which
are fellowshiped by all the
larger New England colleges, by three out
of the four New England theological sem.
inaries, and by not a few, certainly, of the
foremost preachers of America in all the
different evangelical denominations, and
by every missionary organization of the
Congregational Churches except the
American Board, as new heresy' so dam
gerous as to justify the Board and its COM
mittee in adopting methods which would
have been absurd in former days The
question of administration to be considered
at Minneapolis is whether these absurd
language is not ours, but DIR:
Hamlin's-shau be discontinued, and the
Board return to the catholic policy of
Mark Hopkins and Secretary Treat.
What answer may be made at Minneapolis
to these two questions we shall not
prophesy. What answer the future will
finally make to them we do not for an in
slant doubt; and for that answer we can
wait patiently, because assured as to the
result"
How to Talk W ell.
Learn to listen well, and very soon you
will find yourself speaking the word in
season and surprising yourself, as well as
others, by the quickness with which your