The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-07
WoMEN'S NEW SPHERE.
,r7rH A NUMBER OF THE SEX ARE
VOW ORDAINED MINISTERS.

+ha Iunovation-NoG very raging
Profession.
From the Pfttsbtiro Dispatch.
~ man. il may be said, is more stub
- g. against preaching by women
-, the distinguished and dignifed rector
sT-,ni,v church, New York-the Rt. Rev.
u Morgan Dix. 1t grisves him to the soul
.bink that there are such recreant and
s...-ange women" in the world as those who
,a,i,a they have "a calln to teach or to
,,-aacb the gospel. BE hesitates not to SOL
sr,,.1v affirm that the church and the Bible
-. dasd set against such usurpstion of the
holy office
1T srfFer not a woman TO teach, nor to
,,.,rn authority over the man. but to be in
-;Ionca y is-ssys Brother Dix-not to be
.akon as merely the private opinion of the
ssast APOSTLE. but las the mature and per~
Tatusl Judgment OF the church, and the
mind Of God"
Nth authority-knows precisely what the
mind Of God Is IN this matter, and that the
judgement of the church as to women keep
10 their mouths shut is to be perpetually
hi9ding-even unto the end OF the world.
T. howeyer. women should prove renegade
a. this article Of faith and doctrine, then
prOCher DIX sadly asserts tndL uObnluR can
come of IL but Indignation and wrath,
trbulation and anguish"
DOWN TO A QUESTION OF RESPECT.
"With women admitted to holy orders,
or ordained by the laying on OF hands to
Dreach the gospel, baptize babies and i'm
nose upon men and women, for better or
worse the holy bonds OF maurimony, the
result will be nothing short of the destruc-
tion of society, the dethronement and deg
radiation of women" This is the opinion
of the learned brother as published in black
and white and furthermore it is his solemn
conviction that when women enter upon q
field in competition with men, when they
push into professions already overstocked,
Il will end-not in enhancing their merits
or exciting admiration for their talents in
the minds Of men-but in making them, to
their brethren, offensive and detestable.
Moreover, the prediction is ventured that if
they 90 100 far in such direction, that men
having put up with such manners long
enough and having found that the sisters
are becoming social nuisance and ''gen-
eral tormentors," will finally lose all respect
for them and thrust them away with loath-
ing and disgust. and bid them behave them
selves aud 90 back TO their old condition of
interiOrity.
There now, beloved sisters, you have It,
II you persist in pushing into forbidden
fields, If you will stick to 1t that you have a
right 10 exercise your talents 10 any line
where they seem fit, If you will insist upon
40 inward call to save souls by preaching
from a pulpit-upon trying to promote
health aud cure disease by the practice of
medciue-by aiming to follow your bent
by study of the law-upon securing a
place to sell ribbons and pins, rather than
90 steam over the washtub-upon finding a
position as book keeper, rather than to
clean windows and scrub floors, then you
know what to expect
NOT LISTENING TO BROTHER DIX.
This is a logical necessity" says the
learned brother, but evidently the sisters
have little faith in his prophecies. They
take no stock IN the direful predictions.
Even II 1t be true that the church-with a
big C-is dead against them, they are
neither dlsmayed or driven back, but move
right on as seemeth unto themselves good.
Il really appears as il some women were
losing their respect for "the CLOTH" and
We're no longer distinguished for their
difference and submission to their spiritual
pastors. In their growing Intelligence they
manifest desire to think for themselves
aud to decide for themselves. They show q
disposition to act upon their own know ledge
aud convictions of right rather than to pin
their faith upon even the dictums of the
clergy.
Brother Buckley of the Methodist church
thinks it dreadful and as tending TO upset
The heaven ordained order Of things for
Frances Willard to teach and to preach, hut
The whole power Of the great Methodist
church to-day could not compel her to re-
main in silence. Rev. Anna Shaw, who felt
herself called" to the ministry, and is one
of the most effective and eloquent speakers
Of the day, could not be crushed into keeps
Ing her mouth shut by ali the ecclesiastical
authorities in Christendon. Men think
women need religion because it tends to
Keep them meek, Iowly, patient, long suf-
fering and selt-sacrihcing, but they forget,
as some one says shat 1.-The strength of the
religious sentiment in a woman is as we'll
seen when she resists her clerical advisers
as when she adores them or pets them" Not
Gavin, or Luther, or Wesley, or even the
pope Of Rome, still less the smaller fry that
compose the general assemblies and confer
ehces and presbyteries of to-day could
brighten Mary A. Livermore out of the pull
pit or off the platform.
WOMEN ARE DANGEROUS AT TIMES.
4 In any cause upheld by truth, in any re-
form founded upon Justice, In any great
question Of conscience women are heroic in
ther bravery, and in their devotion to
q wat they deem right, and infexible even
Al 'helr olgotry. In olden times they dis
Il tlngulshed themselves among ''the noble
81 army OF martyrs" They showed their
saAchHess and courage as heretics, as HUI
guenots, as Quakers, as Puritans and as
IAgrim mothers. They unfinchingly faced
81 MODS and herocally endured the sneers and
noots and misses of the multitude, as aboli-
t.onisIs. They showed their spunk, forth
.u'e and tirmness-on both substituting
tle OWL war, aud there need be no fear
tlat they will fall short of these qualities
nowsdays, however much their efforts NAV
IIe aecrled and derided evel by the clergy.
us t too late In the day for them to be
u frightened by predictions dire, and proph-
cues That would perchance make the hair
sse II they we're not discounted by the facts
O'uaiIy experience.
Just think of it! How must the soul of
ar reverend brother be affrighted, and his
Ioart De disquleted within him, when be
. nsArS that the Rev. Mrs. Williams is the
pastor OF the First Congregational church
n ~ DeIolt Wis. Will not he, and those who
5 lung with him, feel that destruction
S,a"eth nigh when the morning paper in
Fans ms them that Mrs. Ada h Kepley OF
tta nsnam, Ill. has been ordained to preach
II cue H,s gospel ana administer the sacraments In
S rIs iFst Congregational church at Shelby
WOMEN PRESSING INTO THE PULPIT.
,. nlelr horror will not be lessened by the
Nc" stated In the item, that she studied la W