The herald., 1894-11-26
The Sphere Of Woman,

me bpn0r0 Oh woman
The series OF sermons being delivered
at the Unity church by Rev. J. s.
Thomson at the morning service each
week, are proving of exceptional interest
and are attracting large congregations.
Yesterday the theme Of the pastors ad :
dress was Christ'e Doctrines Concerning
Womanhood, az they may be inferred
from His conversations with women az
recorded in the four gospels and also in
the ApoToyphal gospel.
Attention was first drawn to the fact
that Christ had q high esteem for his
mothers intellectual power, and also
for her moral and spiritual intuitioDs.
"She pondsrsd His sayings" said Mr..
Thorn pson, Tin her heart; realized His
divine powers. and followed Him in his
work. She was the grandest woman Of
the ages. Her mental endowments and
the divine man. She was IA traveller,
having visited Arabia and Egypt
with her husband and son. and
we are justified in believing that q
woman OF her ability must have learned
to speak Greek. Latin and some Egyp-
tian dialect. That she was intellectual
10 proved by the fact that che could re.
spond to the intellectual appeals of the
great teacher and ponder his savings.
She was poet. se her poem in Luke
shows US. No one tina. reads the gos-
pels can doubt that she wac highly spir-
itnal. Joseph honored her as his equal
II not his superior. This educated
woman o. genius managed the home in
which Christ's early days were spent,
and her benign influences trained him
to appreciate honor and exalt woman.
hood. When q mother brings up
Der sons to respect her for
her education, manners. and good
sense, they will respect womanhood
every here. as we see in the case of
Mary'e divine son.
"Christ's treatment OF women, 90
recorded In the gospels, shows his ap.
probation OF woman's faith, spirituality,
repentance and loyalty. He revealed
some OF his most spiritual doctrines to
women. He told the woman at Jacobs
we'll about Gods spiritual omnipres-
ence, end the necess ~ of worshiping
God in spirit ae in trutn, as every place
is sacred where God and man meet in
spiritual communion. He told Martha
that human being can il this life
realizs in his soul the spiritual resurrec-
ton. i am the resurrection and the
life.'
"Women find in Christ their might
lest saad trrest friend. He does
not, Ike Paul, Peter, Mohammed
and Moses, talk about woman's
mental inieriority. Even our much
maligned Mother Eve 10 never used by
him % an illustration to show that
woman 10 an atterthought OF the
Creator. He never refused to help Q
mother in distress about her sick chill.
drsn. He treated every woman az mans
equal in intellectual powers. in moral
conduct and In spiritual insight. Ac-
cording to Him she is not an attachment
for mans service and pleasure, but his
equal here and hereafter. Their life lie
. divine companionship, and not a
struggle for mastery or superiority of
one over the other. Her head 10 as near
heaven a. his, and her feet as near hell
90 his. Some women in Los Angeles
actually hate Christ. and refuse to listen
to sermons In which He receives due
honor. These women are foolish and
ungrstelul, for Chrlst's gospel has
raised Christian woman in every way
above the women Of those nations whore
Christ's religion is unknown.
1.-THE Roman Catholic church ia wiser
than the Protestant church in that it
shows more honor to woman in ito wor-
ship and in its art. Surely the mother
Of Christ deserves more honor than
masculine Professionalism gives her, and
We surely need divine woman to lead
her son to greatest success, and Mary is
that woman"
The Way of the wicked.
AT the First Baptist Church yesterday
the revival services attracted very large
congregations and were especially inter-
Getting. At the morning service the pre-.
liminary exercises were conducted by DR..
Read, after which Mr.. Pratt delivered
m impressive and stirring address from
the text "And so l saw the wicked