Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-04-11
NUMBER II

ulOIueIS-ill-tdW DIS DIG 1ui iio ihSi OtlSA
on her home and her country, and
faces wild beasts and exile and death,
that she may be with Naomi, her hus-
bands mother. Ruth, the queen OF
the harvest fields; Ruth, the grand
mother of David; Ruth, the ancestress
of Jesus Christ. Tho story of her vir-
tues and her life sacrifice the most
beautiful pastoral ever written. Here
is Vashti defying the bacclana1 Of a
thousand drunken lords, and Esther
willing to throw he. life away that she
may deliver her people And here is
Dorcas, the sunlight of eternal fame
gliding her philanthropic needle, and
the woman. with perfume in box
made from the hills of Alabastron,
pouring the holy chrisIn on the head of
Christ, the aroma lingering all down
the corridor of the centuries Here is
Lydia, the merchantess of 'Tyriar purss..
pie, iInlnortalized for be-: chris
llayior. Hereais dow ifll two
MITES moSe ffafii5 IAN tie eaaibod ys;
and the I.enaxes of all tile ages while.
here comes il. slow OF gait and with
careful attendants and with espe-
cial honor and high favor, leaning on:
the arm Of inspiration, one who is tho
Joy and pride of any home SO rarely
fortunate to lave one an old Christian
GRANDMOTHER, GRANDMOTHER Lois. Who
has more worshipers today than any
being, that over lived. on earth except
Jesus Christi Mary. For what pur-
pose did Christ perform bis first miracle
upon eartha To relieve the eInbarrass-
ment of wornanly housekeeper at the
falling short of q beverage. Willy did
Christ break up the silence of the tomb,
and tear off the shroud, and rip up the
rocks2 1t was to stop the bereavement
of the two Bethany sisters. For whose
comfort was Christ most anxious in the
hour of dying excruciation2 For q
woman, an old woman. wrinkle faced
woman, u. woman who in other days
had held him in her arms, his first
friend, his last friend, as it is very apt
to be-his mother All the patllos of
the ages compressed into one utterance,
Behold thy mother" Does the Bible
antagonize woman2
CHRISTIAN AND PAGAN WOMAN COY
TRASTED.
If the Bible is so antagonistic to
woman, Low do you account fer the
difference in woman's condition in China
and central Africa, and her condition
in England and America? There is no
difference except that which the Bible
makes. In lands where there is no BIZ
bio she is hitched like beast of bur
den to the plows, she carries the hod,
she submits to Undesirable indigni-
ties. She must be kept in private
apartment, and if she come forth she
must be carefully hooded and relig-
iously yelled, as though it were shame
to be woman. Do you not know that
the very first thing the Bible does when
it comes into new country is.to strike
off the .shackics of woman's serfdom9 !.
O woman, where are your chains to-
day7 Hold up both your arms and let
us see your handouts. Oh, we see the
handcuffsl They are bracelets of gold
bestowed by husbandly or fatherly or
brotherly or sisterly or loverly affeo-
ton. UnIoosen the wnrln robe from
your neck, o woman, and let us see the
yoke of your bondage. Oh, i find the
yoke carcenet of silver, or string Of
carnelians, or a cluster of pearls that
must gall you very rnuchI How bad
you must all have it
Since you put the Bible on your
stand in the sitting room has the Bible
been to you, o woman, curse or
Why is it that woman
when she is troubled will go to her
worst enemy, the Bible2 Why do you
not go for comfort to some of the great
infldel books-Spinoza's Ethics" or
HuIne's Natural History of Religion"
or Paine's Age of Reason" or Dedro's
Dramas" or any one OF the two hun
dred and sixty volumes of Voltaire7
No; the silly, deluded woman persists
in hanging about the Bible verses,
Let not your heart be troubled"
"All things work together for good"
weeping may endure for night, . II
am the resurrection, peace, be still i"
Furthermore, rather than invite re-
sist this plague of intidelity because it
Us wrought no positive good for the
world. and is always hindrancc.
ask you to mention the names of the
merciful and the educational institu-
tions which inidelity founded and is
and has supported all the
way NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. pronounced.
against God and the Christian religion,
and yet pronounced in behalf of suffer-
ing humanity. What are the names of :.
theln7 Certainly not the United States
Christian commission or the sanitary
commission, for Christian George Fl.
Stuart was the president of the ono
and Christian Henry w. Bellows was
the president of the other. Where are
the asylums and merciful institutions
founded by iniidelity and supported by
infdelity, pronounced against God and
the Bible, and yet doing work for
the alienation of suffering2 1nfidel-
ity is so very loud in its bragga-
docio it must have some to men
ton. Certainly, if you come to speak
of educational institutions, it is not
Yale, j: is not Harvard, it is not Prince
ton, it is not EIiddletown, is not Cam
bridge OF Oxford: it is not any institu-
ton from which diploma would not
be disgrace. Do you point to tho
German universities as cxeeptions2
have to tel! you that all tho German