The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-11-29


classed as that, and Mrs. Arthur Davis,
she is not an old maid, either. although
she might have been for all that 1
know. But these two women have al
most. alone of themselves, removed the
stigma of mental incapacity forever
from women.
1 have always held the sister, on an
average. TO be the equal of the brother
in intellect. If she failed to show il
IL was because of false training and
false social requirements. Yet, how
often have 1 had II thrown in my teeth,
Where in literary lines has one woman
shown the intellect of Shakespeare And
where, I might have answered, has, &C
cording 10 the critics Of the world, one
man since shown himself a Shakespeare?
Man. with his thousands of years Of in
tellectual freedom, has only produced
the one Shakespeare Well, I'd keep
still i am just a little bit inclined to
think from this fact that man had but
little TO do with the development of
Shakespeare. 1t would not surprise me
one bit If his mother or grandmother
wasn't responsible for that great brain.
You know, il is said, that mans good
ness and greatness depends much upon
the kind Of grandfathers he had, and in
this case I guess ii was the grand
mothers Again, according to the fore
going reasoning, if, because no woman
has equaled a Shakespeare in literary
excellence. this of itself proves all wom-
en- to be without literary ability, then,
/ suppose, because Miss Fawcett has
achieved in mathematics that which no
man has yet achieved-for she went be-
yOnd the requirements of senior wrang-
ling-then all men are devoid Of math-
ematical ability. Get away with such
reasoning. 1t reminds one of the mar
row logic used in many forms Of thought
in We olden time. Pity breadth and lib
crafty does not distinguish all thought.
oil info
has had but little time to show the
world what she could have, or might
do She can date her starting point
back TO the invention of the printing
press. The determination of knowledge
which makes all thought more or less
free, made women to think also. There
was many a shackle girdling her bodily.
as well as intellectually, which plainly
belonged to the days of paganism, and
TO no other. There was the paralyZing
blight Of a responsibility, which had no
place as TO truth only in allegory or
mythology. Women today are finding
out that her greatest curse has come
from the silly idea that no difference
how brutal her lord and master he
alone must do the thinking. This mode
Of procedure has so dwarfed the intel
lect of woman that she, as a rule, has
brought children into the world who
are also dwarfed and circumscribed of
intellect. thus keeping ignorance and
it's consequent vice and crime in the
world.
Well, sister gu Pirates" l 'spect it
would take an Australian balloting to de-
termine between us as TO church and
republican form of government not be-
ing at all analomous. There is one thing
sure, those who talk of the church union
speak of it in that way at least
You have the right of your opinion on
the Briggs controversy. But with all
Difference |
think you wrong. When Briggs taught
what he did he was only teaching that
which the history contained in the bible
told for itself, no more, no less. The
intelligent students and ministers knew
this and there was nothing thought of
it until publicly in a lecture few of
these statements We're given, and one
who, from the stand he took must have
known very little Of the bible and true
and reasonable comparison of it's parts,
arTaigned him. One assembly held him
right, another held him wrong. But
votes and assemblies are not inspired,
and often they are not even wise. [
hardly know how to take that word
hereto you use. Guess j will appropri-
ate it as my own. Yes. in the majority
Of cases heretics have been right-Tight
as far as they went; most of them
were dreadfully afraid, though, of get
ting too far from the paternal wing.
That is the heretics Of the last eighteen
hundred years. and some before that
time were used just little too shame
full also. The Jewish church and it's
great outcome, the Christian and Ma
hOmmetan, have always been jealous
churches Of their God and the attrib-
utes and teachings which they claim He
has given. You all know what the Jews
felt it their bounden privilege to do-ex-
terminate cruelty i'm the name of their
God all who did not believe with them.
And you all know what the Mahomet-
ans think of one who denies Moses and
Mahomet and the latters teaching But
Of these we have nothing in common.
1t is of our own i speak. Jesus and His
followers We're Jews. They cOnfOrmed
TO the rules of the church in many ways,
yet openly protested against it in others.
Jesus went not out of the church to
point out IT'S follies or preach against its
creeds. And He was pronounced her
etc. and died for His heresy. The church
which followed in His wake grew strong,
grew bold and arrogant. 1t is only the
student of church history who can have
any idea of how at times il was rent
with discussions as to it's beliefs and
teachings. The council and the sword
settled the heresies, or the heresies set
tied the matter as time went on by
proving themselves right. Up to the
days of Savinarold, and down to the
days OF Luther. men protested of church
ly wrong ana died herettcS But, thanks
again to the defamation of reading mat
ter and Germany always ahead in free
thought on all matters, Luther escaped
the fagot. AS far as | can see all heret-
les from Jesus down to John Wesley
made their protests in the church. and
l suppose it was the privilege of the
church TO kick out all that did not be-
lieve in its laws or creeds. John Calvin
was not much Of a professor. He was
more of a buildert with old creeds for
his bricks, covered over with new word
ings perhaps, but just the same i'm the
principle. II is not to be wondered that
from this church must come the great
est trials for heresy and the greatest
need or remodeling.
The day is passing when men of anv
century, whether il be of the first or
the fifth. with ST. Jerome. can arbitrarily
formulate any line of thought and force
men by fear of hell to prescribe to il.
No body of men at any age of the world
has a right to settle that as inspiration.
which undoubtedly gives God a charac-
ter which is blasphemy to give Him. The
student of one hundred years from now
will look back upon us as with pity
With pity at our lack of true reasoning,
and pity that a man as orthodox as
Briggs should have suffered for such
small heresies. You say that one man
should not rule. There is much promul-
gated as truth in the same line we are
on, ~. Pirates" which is certainly and
surely taken from the reasoning of one
man. AS for instance the reckoning of
time at six thousand years, L think you
will find RichOn fishers word "a xap