, 1891-04-12

senses wants a perforated philosopher or
wants to have anything to do with her.
L would as soon hug a grizzly bear as
touch such 3 woman. and l would rs soon go
on a stroll from Youkers to New York
locking arms with a locomotive or a light
ming express, as to try to keep in com
pany with such a mar Laughter
and applause. Brethren, women are
different" Long laughter.
The Rev. William q. Mickle OF the
Washington Heights church said he ia
vored having aid men in governing
the church on S%crptural grounds. 1t
was plain that it was Gods first thought
that mau and woman should be equal in
authority. In Paradise there was no
place for bachelors or spinsters, widows
or widowers. Sin changed all the rela
lions of the sexes, and woman has brought
forth in sorrow and man has ruled over
her.
1T has been the rule when a bear gets
into the house" continued Mr.. Mickle,
that John shall climb up into the loft
and let Susan find the axe and kill the
bear. Now we propose that John shall
stay down stairs and, if the axe is nearer
to John than it is to Susan. let him kill
the bear; but il the axe is nearer to Susan
then let her kill the bear, and John will
hug her and kiss her on both cheeks"
Laughter and cries OF That's So"
Rev. DR.. Ensign McChesney of the
Madison venue church said he did not
believe women ever had the right to take
part in church government. If they had,
when did they have it and when did they
lose 1t? As a matter of fact, women, on
the whole, didn't want it. Women in the
.np Foran,a unnIA knun 20 o-r - l.
didn't like to argue with a woman. If
he whipped her he telt like a brute who
had been 10 a sparring match, and If she
whipped him he felt more So. Laughter.
Mr.. McChesney didn't believe, he said,
that the men who argued to admit women
really wanted them 10. There is a feel
ing in the world that the church Is good
enough for women, while all a man needs
is more social clubs. To admit women to
govern IN the church would strengthen
that theory and feeling. 1t wouldn't do
to feminine" the Methodist church any
further. 1t would iniure the church in
the great family of churches. To let the
impression 90 out that the Methodist
church is q place for outlandish things to
crop out would be too high a price to pay
for women's presence.
The Rev. j. S. Stone OF Asbury church
in this city argued that this il a remark
able age, and the Methodist church which
has broken the record BY breaking over
all ecclesiastical rules, ought to let women
in. Men need her brains, her judgment,
her sound counsel. Women know that it
is through Christianity that they have
been elevated, and they ought to be en-
couraged to carry the banner of the cross
further onward. 1t is a practical move
ment, All the talk about women seced.
ing and forming another church South
was nonsense.
The Rev. j. Dean said womeu ought
not to try to rule. From a New Jersey
mosquito to a Numidian lion the male
sex Is the sex that executes a purpose,
the sex that means business. All laws
are composed of precept and penalty;
take away the penalty and the remaining
precept is only good advice. Law isn't
brains only; muscle is needed to enforce
to exercise his rule. If women ever get
into the conference it will be on other
ground than the St. James version OF the
bible.
The Rev. DR.. j. r. Day, a big man
from big Calvary church, opposed the
admission of women. She has a right to
pNAoOuallt buN ltlhllNGll " utT
chief duties she has not the right. Her
FIRST duty is to her home. 1t is greater to
be a mother of men than to be a ruler of
men. In this movement to admit women
to rule there is a tendency away from
marriage and from the domesticity of
IN In a religious newspaper, under
the head Good Things for Girls DR..
Day had read this advice: Don't think
1t necessary to get married. Plenty of
room yet for old maids, and many are
happier than married women.
But St. Paul said, 1 will that women
marry and bear children " cried DR..
Day. II stand by the old bible. Look
at the inclination Of o young men
and women to live single lives 10 order TO
make Roadway in the world. The church
would better ask for increase OF member
ship by increasing marriages. Have we
men become exhausted that we must in
vite women to do what we are unable to
do2 This demand is not the voice of the
church, but the echo of woman suffrage
that is denied in the state. It's an effort
to make the Methodist church the battle
field Of hat movement"
The Rev. DR., H. G. McGrew OF St.
Paul's church, for the admission of
women, denied that the movement was an
opening wedge tor universal suffrage. If
women we're made for home, then why
didn't God make homes for 20, 900
women struggling in New York for bread
and shelter? As to the Scripture argu-
ment. st. Paul wrote: Its a beautiful
thing for a man not to touch a woman"
A brother-"Did he state that as a
ruler"
DR.. McGrew-'He made that as a
rule. We can't move in any direction in
the church without women to aid us, and
DR.. Day knows it. You think if we ask
halfa dozen aged mothers in Israel to go
to general conference we are turning the
world upside down"
The Rev. DR.. James NJ. King of this
city opposed admitting women. not be
cause he was Jealous of her power, but
because he was Jealous for it. She would
be called down from her white throne to
a lower throne. 1t would not be her
emancipation but her degradation and en-.
slavement. 1t was said openly BY women
at the recent women's convention at
Washington that when Methodist women
got over St. Paul and the new testament,
the Scripture standard by which the
church is governed would be swept
away.