The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1893-06-16

who did propbesy or preach. will
mention few of them: Mirian'r
EX. XIV, 20; Deborah, Judges, iv,
4, s, 8 (plea4e read these verses
closely, ye mem; Huldah, 2 Kings,
xxi, IA l6.
| wish to call special attention TO
the next IL Luke H., 25-32 We are
told OF old SimeOn's JOY on finding
the infant Jesus in the temple
From the Both to the 33 verse we
have the record of another saints
conduct at that time. 1t reads as
follows: "And she Gamma, the
prophetess), coming in tnat instant,
gave thanks likewise unto the Lord, /
and spake of him to all them that !
looked for redemption in Jerus- I
aem" What is tnis but presching? 4
Anyway, she spoke in tue temple /,
| wish to make statement now
! that may sound a liule irreverent.
| make it after mature thought and
critical examination. 1t is this; Ii
women are forbidden by the word OF
God to tell the story OF the eros, then
the Messiah has not come! This wac
to be one of the signs OF his coming
In the prophet JOel H., 1928, We
read: "And it snail come to pass
afteward that l will pour out my
spirit upon all flesh, and your spDs
aud your daughters shall prOphesy;
aud also upon the servants and the
hand -maidens in those days will
pour out my spirit" This WAS liter
ally fulfilled eight hundred years AZ
terward, as yOI will tind recorded In
Acts ii, 1918: But this is that
which was spoken by the prophet
Joel, aud it shall come to pass III the
; last days, saith God, will pour out
OF my spirit upon all flesh, and your
SOUS aud daughters thall prOphesy,
aud your young men shall see Wis
ions ana your old men shall dream
, +, dreams, aud upon nay and-mAidens
l will pour out Of nay spirit, and they
shall prOphesy."
Let us inquire here who were those
oh whom the spirit fell at Pentecost
!, In Acts j., l3, we read: "And when
they were come III they went up INC
I au upper room, where abode both
Peter aud James and John aud An'
c drew, Phillip and Thomas, Barthol-
y omew aud Mettlew, James, the sol
i OF Alpbaus, and Simon Zelotes, anC
o Judas the brother OF James. There
all continued with one accord IL
" prayer and suppIication with th'
y women and Mary, the mother o
= J. sus, aud with his brethren.
y Again, in Acts H., /: And whe|
" the day OF Pentecost was fully CONS
" they were all with one accord la 'Ou
! place (third verse;. and there 'ap
1 peared uuto them clOven tongues Xix
=, - AS Of fire, and 1t sat upon each U
~ them"
u IT. Romans xvi, l, Paul says: "
u commend unto you Phebe, our sistel
+ which is y servant (diakOnOn, des
II coness} OF the church which is Y
, Cenchrea. Also, in verse II, he says
u u "Salute TrypheLa and TryphOea, VIII
~ labor iu the Lord. Salute the bt
y loved P"rsls, which labored much |
" the Lord.n | quo'e here from th
~ learned DIR. Adam Clark:
"a 1--WE learn from this that Cbristia
W women as well as men labOred in IL
u ministry OF the word. In those Tins
re of simplicity all persons, Wheth'
y men or women, WHO had receivr
in the knowledge of the trutn, believe
1t it 10 be their duty to propagate 1t
an the utmost of their power. Man
'c- have spsut much useless labor in u
~, neayorng to prove that these W
al men did not preach. That there we
w some prophelesses as well as pzophe
ne IN the Christian church we lear
ne aud that woman might preach
prophesy, provided she had her he'
vi xui. nFn..h a : 4
~ spnke unto others to edltloAtlOE, q
l.o horta ION and comfort" Ii wom'
III thus prophesIed, th"n they preHche
ye' Why so much opposition to Wom
Nc wa preaching?
u S l. Ignorance.
,us q A relic Of ancient oriental bi
'iu bsrism.
lay The world has never had but o
VI real slave, VIZ: wman. Before 1
aui fall, she WAS mans equal. "fnel
en- fore shall man leave his father u
MS his mother and shall clesve unto
,ns' wife, and they shall be one flesh
Ihe Gen. ii, "a. fhe average husbal
'n thinks tbat be is the No | and
oi wife (?) the cipher. In all parts
Ihe the world and in all ages CT
Anu world, women lave been consider
am inferior to men In wisdom. In
TOR Hindoo book called the Kurral 1t
on declared that "all women are igI
ing rant" Another says: "IgnOran
.ing is a woman's Jewell" Again: "Fel
'Isu nine qualities are four-ignoran
al, fear, shame aud impunity." AmC
Is. the Jews, while Jesus was on ear
ln, woman was esteemed very little b
Veu t-r than a slave. A man might
her vorce his wife il she was not ne be'
Oey tiful a. some other woman, or II
Aiy, cooking did not SUIT him, such
sue over-salting, Over.roasting, etc. Z
, o man! his stomach has always gi'
ear ' him trouble.
thsI The statement that land OF
helr man preachers is land Of intal
the cides carries fAlsehOod on its II
aud is too low to be noticed in
phe-
his