The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1893-06-02

streets. She did not take the stump
or mount a pulpit to do 80.
Philips four daughters also publicly
eXpounded the scriptures. (Acts xxi.
s, 0,
We beg pardon, bit is that what il
said? 1t simply says that Philip
had four daughter, virgins, when
did prophesy, "-hOW they prOphesied
is not said. IL may have been iu,t
in private, or may have been that
they accompanied their father in his
evangelistic tOnrs and preached to
the women, as our lady missionaries
often do now.
Besides these lin Romans xvii sever
al women are mentioned as having
done public work, among whom was
| Phoebe, who is called "a servant of the
| Church"
We beg pardon again, but ia it So id
! that these women did "puOliC work ?n
Can not woman be Servant of the
Church" without speaking IN plblic?
What did Phmpe do? Paul Tells Us
in verse 2: For she hath been SUE
corer OF many, and mS sef also She
had simply helped Them with her
sympathy and her prayers and her
means, relieving their necessities aud
giving comfort to their hearts. Did
she do this by her public sermons?
In Philippians iv. 3, Paul speaks of
women who worked with him III the
gospel.
True, but it doesn't say they did 20
by preaching in public, aud it takes
quite long stretch of the imag ma
tlou to make it mean that.
And in Gal. iii. Is, he says plainly
that in Christ there Is neither BOND nor
free, male nor iemaie-thus in word
putting the sexes on equality.
Certainly, in Christ all are equal.
All are saved by HIM alike. Brother
Ussery fOrgets that it is much easier
to get social equality out OF that text
than it is to get the privilege OF
women preaching in public out of it.
The fact Is, it has not the remotest
reference to the latter. We have
noticed these arguments OF Brother
Ussery in detail because they are the
stock arguments of those who believe
in wOman's preaching. He has pre-
: sented the case aboutas Well as 1t can
be presented. and to answer him is 10
. answer all. We wanted to show how
tlimsy, how far-fetched are the argu.
ments with which these good brelh-
ren deceive themselves in their effort
to tiud some excuse for the theory
they want to adopt and some answer
10 PauPs plain and unequlvocal, Let
, the women keep silence in the
2 churches" The truth of the bushes.
r is, brethren, that a man is man, anC
2 a woman IS "a woman. God made
them so. Let them stay so. Man IL
: fitted by nature for the world of Lusi-
: ness, for public life. Woman is fitted
by nature for the world nj home, FOL
private life. Joan and Darby can no
4 wRp work. Ne Their can tulti M
> duty OF the other. Let each stay it
= lis own hemisphere. Whateve
W. man can do in private for Christ
and sue Can do much-as wife, moth
f err, sister, friend, IA Sunday-scboo
: teacher, angel of mercy, or anything
; let her do il in quie., wOmauIy way
t and God bless her. But when sh
: steps into the sacred desk or perform
S any other public acy she unsrXes her
i self, she loses in tue eyes OF the worl
Z the GROWING jewel OF her chgra6tet
modesty, she iranscends the laws {
OF nature and she violates the sOlem
v iujuncton Of Paul and OF the HOl
IS SUirlt, Let the women keep silenc
in the churches.-BSpIist aud R-teC
4 tor.