Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-03

He1 OtJznptd B7oaTs. nlzed as an EN-
clent and consecrated laborer in the vine
yard of the Lord called out from the
Brooklyn Presbytery the following, which
eral Assembly, dating back to 1887:
for conversation and prayer, we entirely ap.
prove But let not the inspired prohibition
OF the great apostle, as found in his epistles
to the Corinthians and to Timothy, be vio-
prayer in public and promiscuous assem-
blies, are clearly forbidden to women in the
holy Oracles.
Dr.. Collyer's pulpit is always open to the
woman minister and his hearty "God bless
you! falls upon her like heavenly bene-
diction from his reverent lips. This is Rev.
I. Dewitt Talmage's view: 'I do not
think the story of the Gospel will be fully
told until CHRISTIAN women all round the
world tell it. My pulpit Is always open to
women, and when they have preached there
the impression has always been deep and
good and lasting"
Rev. Joseph Cook has said: 'Hand in
hand men and women build the home; hand
in hand they ought to build the State and
the church. Hand in hand they left an
earthly paradise LOST hand in hand they
are likely to enter, if at all, an earthly par
adise regained''
Div!ne'y Qualified for the Work.
Perhaps it is left for DIR. Joseph Parker,
of London, to say the strongest word: 81
cannot but feel that women have greater
Christian work to do than many of us have
yet realized or admitted, and that they have
it to do for the simple reason that they are
divinely qualified to do it. I confidently
look to women who have received the
heavenly gift to recall and re-establish the
heroic and sacri6cial piety of the church.
The weight of such opinion from men who
are foremost in the ranks of the Christian
ministry is beginning to count on the side of
the woman ministry question. The general
conference of the Wesleyan Methodist
Church of America in session recently at
Grand Rapids, Mich, struck out of the dis
cipline the section prohibiting the ordina-
tion of women. While the Methodist
Episcopal Church is not ready as a body to
grant ordination to women, it is taking the
surest possible means to make the ordina-
tion inevitable in fitting the women as it
does at the Garrett Biblical Institute at
Evanston. Ten years ago the most brilliant
scholar of the class graduating in theology
was Miss Mary Phillips. Other women
have studied there since and at present
there are two rygifted young women pre-
pairing to preach the gospel The great
Methodist Church may Just as well begin to
get ready to ordaln them
Women Will Find Their Level.
But after all is said and done the strong
est argument in favor of women in the min
istry is found in woman herself If there
does not appear in her nature an eternal fit
ness for the work no Bible exegesis nor fav-
orable report of council, synod or confer
ence can place her in the ranks of the min
istry. 1t she does possess the qualities of
mind and heart that will make her work a
success, no biblical exegesis or injunction of
council, synod or conference can long keep
her silent in the churches. To woman the
ministry is not a profession, but calling
Women are natural teachers. They are
born with the idea of instruoting. They are
sympathetic by nature. Suffering appeals
to them. Most women feel themselves the
natural guardian. Of the young, the aged,
the sick. the poor.
In the church of to-day theology is taking
the background and christianity applied is
coming to the front. People are growing
less and less interested in the fall of man
and more and more solicitous about his rise.
Outside of her place as wife and mother
there is no calling upon which woman can
enter where her every gift of heart, mind
and brain can find a larger opportunity for
exercise in behalf of the truth of God and
the welfare of mankind than in the work of
the Christian ministry.
FLORENCE 10. KOLLOCK