The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-08-19

by Miss Francis E. Willard as follows:
Quoting what persons have said to her,
she said:
Stay in the church, and help reform
it," says one. "No; that is impossible:
old churches and old parties are equally
crystallized," comes the reply. Let the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
organize church, and will join it, every
man Of u.s. il the declaration of an in
fuential group of earnest men. NO; we
have too many churches already" objects.
a listener; "let the wheat and tares grow
together until the harvest"
But for myself love my motheF-church
so we'll, and recognize so thoroughly that
the base and body of the great pyramid
she forms are broader than It's apex, that
l would fain give her little time in
which to deal justly blythe great house
hold of her loving, loyal, and devoted
daughters. | would wait four years
longer in fervent hope and prayer that
the great body of her ministers and of
her membership may make it manifest to.
all the world that the church of Lady
Huntingdon, Barbara Heck, and Phebe
Palmer does not hesitate to march with
the progressive age it has done so much
to educate, nor fear to carry to their
logical sequence its lifelong teachings as
to woman's equality within the house of
God. | say this frankly, from my present
outlook, though so often urged, and not
a little tempted, and sometimes quite de-
termlned to take new departure. The
time will come, however, and not many
years from now, when, if representation
is still denied us, it will be our solemn
duty to raise once more the cry, "Here |
stand, | can do no other" and step out
into the larger liberty of a religious
movement where majorities and not mi
norities shall determine the fitness of wo-
men as delegates, and where the laying
on of hands in conservation, as was un-
doubtedly done in the early church, shall
be decreed on a basis of gifts, graees
and usefulness" irrespective of sex.
I 1t must be true, for Miss Willard de-
clares it, that "an influential group of
earnest men have called upon the Wo-
mans Christian Temperance Union to
organize a church =" 1t is not wonder
full that such things should affect the
judgment of the recipient of such con-
tidence.
If such a spirit exists, the church should
know it. With genuine admiration for
Miss Wizards gifts, and full recognition
Of her varied services, but with the faith
fulness Of friendship, we assure her, that
were the WOmen's Christian Temperance
Union to attempt to "organize a church."
that "group Of influential men" would
fail to stand by it or her, and if they did
the organization would simply add an
other to the successors of Jonah's gOurd.
Still worse. Speaking of one of these
woman suffrage meetings, Dr. Buckley
says he witnessed the proceedings. He
says:
In the morning the proceedings were
somewhat tedious until a woman, about
sixty years Of age, Of masculine proper
tions and voice, introduced by the chair
man as Mrs. White, NJ. D., arose. She
strobe to and fro, and with loud voice
pOnderOus geStiCulatiOn exclaimed eve
shall never get out rights as long as that
old book the bible is the rule in this land.
Talk about freedom There is more
slavery here than there was on the plan
tations in the South; slavery to an old
book"-then kissing through her teeth
-"old Paul! Millions Of women believe
in him, and groyel in the dust at his feet,
and at the feet of men that believe in
him. We've got to break the shacklps
off the mind, snd set people free from
that old boOk-the bible" In this train,
with some "reminiscences of the difficulty
she had in getting practice as a physician
in an early day, she continued for fifteen
or twenty minutes.
After one or two christian members of
the convention had protested agains Mrs
Whites remarks, an elderly man arose
and said Il suppose think pretty much
about the bible as Mrs. DR.. White does,
as to whether it is Godma or man
made, for, like her, | don't doubt it is
man-made; but | cannot but feel that
that she makes a great mistake when she
says that our cause wont prevail until
the people stop believing in the bible.
We don't want to enter on a job Of a
thousand years. What we want to do is
to TACK OUR IDEAS ON TO SOME POPULAR
QUESTION AND GET TIE CHRISTIANS IN
TEREsTED IN IT. | used to tell them so
before the war. That is what we ought
to DO, for if we can get the christians to
take up our ideas they will DIG THE SENSE
RIGHT OUT OF OLD PAUL, AND OUT OF THE
BIBLE. They will put a new interpreta-
ton on it; that's what they always do;
that's what the Universalists do. The
bible is full of hell, and everybody knows
it is; but the Uniyersalists holds on to
the bible and grub the sense out of the
passengers and that's the way they'll
do if we can make them believe that fe
male suffrage will help them do some
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