New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-05-14
REFERS 1T TO SCRIPTURE.
THE REV DR.. PARKHURST breaches
ON THE WOMAN QUESTION"
THE FACT THAT WOMEN DID NOT VOTE IN
BIBLE TIMES IS NOT y GOOD ARGUMENT
AGAINST THEIR VOTING NOW. he SAYS
THEY SHOULD SEEK THE GUID-
ANCE OF THE BIBLE-sUPREME

ANCE or THE BlBLE-sUPREME
IN THE HOME.
The Rev. Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst preached yes
terday morning at the Madison Avenue Presby-
terrain Church upon what is called the Woman
Question" He did not say whether women should
vote or not, but he did express himself empAau-
cally In favor Of deciding that question and AZ
similar ones On strictly scriptural lines AS the
ballot box was not widely distributed In BLDG
times, the Doctors sermon offered only an INFER
entail decision of the suffrage question
He had announced on the previous Sunday that
his discourse yesterday would he for women ana
therefore his church was crowded to the doors
This was the sermon. in part:
have made choice this morning OF two SeXis,
selected respectively from opposite endS OF the
.xnd the Lord God said II is not good that the
man should be alone; will make him an heipmeet
for him."-Genesis il; lS .,.,. ,...o... .,,,.,5
doctrine: That they may teach the youns women 70
be SOBER love their husbands, TO love their emil
dren 20 be discreet chastc, keepers at home g9od;
obedient TO their own husbands that the word OF
God be not blasphemei. Titus ii, l. 4.
There is that in the present situation which /
believe. renders II obligatory upon the Christian
pulpit TO address itself to women There is also al
present that sharp antagonism Of opinion ana that
fevered intensity OF feeling which to peculiar
degree emoarr&ss az suc u cen reasonsbl have
that the handling of the woman question at ms
ing ourselves distinctly upon Scriptural GROUNDS.
have been repeatedly approached this last week
a means OF exploiting or the other side of the
great question that is in these days under DEBATE
Indeed am not quite sure but that If had eVlnced
a tractabe or mercenary spirit could have re-
celved a retainer for the occasion All such APP
offensive; they are directly counter to what |
conceive 20 be he prophetic once Ok hf b
L undertakes 20 make itself an authority upon ques-
lions which it has exceptional means Of under,
sfnnding and no exceptional genius for stating and
elucidating. SO that you are in the wrong cnurch
this morning. any one of you who Is present FOR
the purpose of listening to forensic discussion OF
the woman suffrage matter A. the same time
duty womanly preroga tive-name 1t as you like
knits into the previous question as to GODS idea
In having woman anyhow.
AS to that matter there IS no higher or more au-
Scriptures There is nothing that has done 50 much
for woman as the Bible and II she knows wnat Is Is
ground for hopeful expectations if in the dis
cussion of such questions as are now agitating
little more preliminary time in determining whether
or no the Word of God has something to say about
Word some principles enuncated and illustrated
that have an evident bearing upon me questions IONS
to ignore in her efforts TO reach safe ana there
fore ma Read u p I5e
that has been lately under debate there Is but a
thing that looked ike disposition to inquire
whether God had any interest in this matter or
the Bible there were any events described any
facts stated any limitations given; in the light
could be reached that would therefore give promise
OF divine vadity Inc 6ie rs Who had fe ny
knowledge Of our day. and no presentiment OF the
fertility and eXpansveness OF idea that would OBJ
tain in the closing decades Of the nineteenth cen
fury; still it is not difficult TO discover from the
gard to woman and what construction he puts
upon her, and as men and women who believe in
the Bible as the word of God. that is the first thing
for US to give attention to in every attempt to ar
rive at safe determination as to her immunities'
THE CONSERVATION OF CREATION
.ha fo
from the Bible record is that the production Of
woman was the communicating act OF the creative
week. In order appreciate ali that that means it
needs to be diligently remembered that Gods line
Of creative work was one of steady improvement In
the quality Of its product. Whatever opinion we may
see way clear to hold upon the doctrine Of evo-
luton 1t remains fact that the first two chapters
of Genesis mark orderly progress Of creative
sequence, each step in the history furnishing the
platform upon which sustained itself a still higher
and finer exercise OF the Divine wisdom and power
that each stage was the finish OF what had PIE
in that character then tnat we are obliged to
the final act of the creation week. and 70
find in the production Of woman the climax Of Co.'s
stopped, knowing of nothing better or higher that
saying that without her creation would have just
mi ba oe b @a mat achee d %
found reading Of the first two chapters OF Genesis
womanhood and dsposes summarlly Of any such
conception that woman Is an accident OF history
And & IS by sa6rd With e 81 na Is
VILE sg iss s o ee5 nat
make him more overt and conspicuous figure in
tine tine nsTy Of o ebew np ne as 81
served In the eleventh chapter of the Hebrew Eps
OF the brawnler sexyet. that when it is matter OF
personality carried to the highest and most delicate
upon which the Scriptures regularly put the stamp
Been read r bunSres and thouand OF years v
out that sentiment having become in very wide
but great deal OF what IS known as gaanry IS
silent tribute which yields to the queenliness
itself. although in manner not always understood.
in the heavenly penalty which woman Is publicly
1t Is easy to that the sin is much his hers
and that social ostracsm for her and social olera
AZ the same time, in that discrimination there is
|can be only deep the honor is high from when
II has declined and i is exactly the delicate grand
ruin. That estimate of woman, which is a distinctly
scriptural one. lies very deeply ntrenched in the
masculine Christian inland there is nothing mors
becoming to than that he should continue 10
cherish that estimate and nothing more TO the ad-
self In way 10 encourage that estimate
THE DISPARITY OF THE SCENES
Another matter which lies deeply imbedded in the |
Scrlptural record the essential disparity Of
the TWO sexes. The physical type of each has It's |
correlations in the mental and spiritual Male ana
female. He created them" That is the basal fact Of
tic SNA - Hot an 'teSIutHt VI per
sonaiity, but Is an element that Is constituent in !
every thread and fibre of IT, II a man Is 4 man the |
flavor OF manhood will permeatc him in his entirety !
II woman is woman the flavor OF womanhood |
will permeate her In her entirety All OF that is IN |
the verse just quoted. Male and female created /
He them" That means that, TO the mind Of the |
Creator. each of these two stood for distinct type
of personal existence In all that goes 20 compose
personal existence. The install you commence 10 |
animallze the idea OF and limit the distinction
to disparity OF physical organization you cut into
the tissue OF the deepest part OF the entire matter,
and unfortunately there Is at present a very strong
tendency in that direction The intention OF Script
ure is clear from the method In which IL handles |
OF the womanly sex. Those women
upon whom II puts the stamp OF divine distinction
and approval women. scarcely with an excep-
tion whose womanhood Is realized to be pervasive
ingredlcnt entering into the constitution OF