Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-11-05
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Ep1rEp BY the LADIES.
From MISS willard's Address.

No society ever organized by won-
en- has set the keynote of protection
for the home so clearly as the w. @.
L. u. or has more carefully avoided
antagonism toward good men. For
this reason, there Is not a good man
IN America who is not at heart the
friend of cur movemunt, however the
exlgencles of party, professional pre-
Torment, or success IN trade NAV hold
him from the utterance of all he
thinks.
Let it be forevermore remembered
that the croakers who said public life
would detract from the womanliness
of women. cannot but admit that the
style of dress which reputable men
and women deplore is not illustrated
by progressive women, but by women
of society; and there is hardly an ex-
ceptlon to this rule in the civilized
world.
The ever feminine draweth on in
church no less than state. Miss
Greenwood, our superintendent of
evangelistic work, reports 701 names
and addresses of women ministers and
eYanget:sts. Even the Congregation
al church, descended from the Puri-
tans and notably conservative on the
woman question, lately voted to ordaln
a woman, Miss JuanIta Breckenridge,
who had been permitted to graduate
from one of its own theological SEM
inaries. The vote on admitting her
to ordination stood 80 in favor to Is
against.
Women are freely permitted the
hardest tasks. Competition does not
! ar
burn, of India, says that in ten years
there will be more missionaries frona
their ranks than from the ranks OF
to all emergencies, even to those OF
leadership Bishop Taylor, of Africa,
says that his hardest stations are man
ned by women, and in the very hard
est of all Canadian woman, sanity
and true, works all alone amoag the
natives, and is almost worshiped by
them.
Thirteen years ago a general mis-
sionary conference for China was held
in one of the chief cities. This year
it assembled IN Canton for the second
time, with about five hundred dele
gates of all denominations. WheE It
met before, Il woman missionary was
called upon to bring her methods of
work before the conference, whereup-
on the presiding officer left the chair,
while several members hastened from
the church in tears, and still others
protested in holy horror, ''it is un-
scriptural for woman to participate
in such a meeting" But this year,
one of the first things done was to
make all the ladies who had come Tin
Guiding missionaries wives, ''UotSna
members of the CON erenc lOith all the
privileges of the JsoorP'
Besides ali this, resolution was
adopted, by an overwhelming maiori-
ty, to set apart an evening for a speech
by Miss Jessie Alderman, of Califor-
MIA, 1.-THE representative of the Nation
al Woman's Christian Temperance
Union, who is working in China on
behalf of a society that is the greatest
moral force outside the church"
Surrounded by pagan hordes, these
Christians stand together, and men
perceive the need of woman's utmost
aid. Hedged in by hordes of skep-
tics and saloon defenders, the Chris
tians of America have well nigh at
tanned similar clearness of vision.
May the Methodist Episcopal Gener-
al Conference, north and south, profit
by the Chinese example.
In these days when learned prelates
are fercely crit. losing my luckless lit
tie book eE.Gitled women in the Pull
pit" I ought to explain that I long
ago ordered the revision of one SEN
|, tence, thus, "Christ, not Paul, is the
source of all churchly authority" to
read mot the pseudo-Paul Of theol-
ogy" but fearing that was not clear
enough, I have now put it, ''not the
man-made Paul of certain theoiog.
ians." Dear sisters, please stand by
me in explaining this clearer putting
of the point. Paul interpreted by
himself and by the Bible as a whole,
is woman's friend and liberator. For
this let US always stoutly contend.
0 By way of explanation, it may here
fittingly be said that the accusations
0 referred to my annual address in New
York City (1888) wherein as posi-
: BILE method of introducing women to
a wider field OF christian work, a
D Church union" was suggested and
= the statement made that this was in
tendeded to be carried on without at
0 all disturbing the church relations of
anyone already connected with any
o christian denomination. 1t has been
attempted to be shown that a new
0 church was contemplated; but it was
n a church anton, wherein the total alb
stinence and white cross pledges
should be a requisite, and women
should have the same status Ia all re-
n CARDS as men. That I have been crit
icised signifies little. To the attacks
made upon you through me, thought
to be replied and is hereby, that the
w. @. Z. .. has no secret designs Of
o capturing any church whatever, and
o least of all, that leviathan, the Meth
odist; we would as soon expect to bind
y the sweet influence of the PleiadesI
So far as knew we have no plan OF
Q purpose to organize any ecclesiastical
o movement whatever. Great kindness
o is fealt toward us by the church gen.
o orally. but the higher water mark Of
- ministerial recognition ever extended
" to US was reached In May last, when
o the General Conference Of the NJ e
o church, south, unanimously adopted
y a splendid pronunciamento on the
r temperance reform
Personal controversy is s.like vine
. gar 70 the teeth and smoke to The
70 eyes, Let us have none OF It. "Be
. ing reviled, Jet us reyile not again
No Beyond an occasional dignified reply
to misleading accusations, the Nation
" 81 W. G.. T. q. is won't to hold ii
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