The evening world., 1894-05-14
So Says Dr.. ParkhurSt About the
WOman-Sufrase Movement, and 10
Thinks II May Pass Away.
A SCRIPTURAL VIEW TAKEN,
DR.. Rylanco Calls 1t a New 1dolotry, a
Thing for Testing, and Quotes 81.
Paul's Admonition.

Yesterday morning. Every seat was &C.
cuuied, and three-fourths of the congre-
cation were women. Among them were
many of the advocates of both sides of
the question. DIR. Parkhurst took Genesis
IT,. IL. for his text: land the Lord God
said, 1t Is not good that the man shall be
alone; | will make him an helpmeet for
him." He also read several verses from
the New Testament bearing on the sub
ject.
There is at present such feverish in
tensity of feeling over this matter that
to a certain extent 1t embarrasses the
whole people," he said. but we should
hold ourselves absolutely and strictly to
Bible teachings. During the past week
/ have been constantly entreated to use
my pulpit for one or the other side of
this question. AS a matter of fact, 30
ardent have been the entreaties of the
friends of both factions, l could have
received a large retainer. There Is moth
ing so offensive to me as the idea of
turning the pulpit into a rostrum or a
debating platform. The first thing we
do when we enter a pulpit Is to open the
Bible, That Is an emblem that we are
in the pulpit to teach and reveal divine
truths. Now, my friends, you are in the
wrong church if you come to zeal a
forensic discourse on the woman aues-
ton. l shall simply try to show what the
Bible says God mad woman for and the
place he intended her to occupy. The
Bible has always been woman best
friend. and she can't do better than to
stick to it.
1T would be ground for more hope for
a better state of affairs for women If
they had spent some of their preliminary
time in searching to see If the Scriptures
had anything to say on the question.
from all that l have heard and read,
only once has n reference to the Scrip
lures been made or to what God thought
or the matter. The Bible Is a very old
DOCK; and the men who made it did
not know what the needs of this age
would be; Yet the Bible gives a good
idea OF what are Gods feelings towards
Is. and every Christian woman ought
to begin, the study of the question at
that end. The first two chapters of
When God finished woman he
stopped. There was nothing better or
more ideal to be created. It Is a mistake
is an accident of history, or that she
occupies an inferior position to man.
There Is an unconscious tribute hat
mar pays to the %queenliness Of Gods
mans sphere. 1t is the delicate gran
deur of my temple that makes It ad-
becomes men than their home associa-
ton with wives n mothers. There Is
an essential disparity. between the two
sexes. 1t is not altogether physical
strength, Male and female created he
them Each Of these sexes. in the mind
of the Creator were to represent differ
ent types. The acme of the ideal was
reached in Mary, the mother of Jesus.
Sha paIypr made much noise In the world
She never became ambitious to do things
that men did. But when God wanted q
little boy to grow up to become the
THE attempt to- transform woman
into a female duplicate of man Is a
farce: If you succeeded in convincing
ments that the only difference between
man and woman was a slight differ
ence in organic construction you would
lose that UNCONSCIOUS tribute which he
ish your femininity with caution. The
secret of mans alteration for n woman
at home, for a wife at home, is that
she is a woman, not that she Is a fe-
male.
Il am forced to characterize the suf-
frage movement of the present time as
look in the dictionary for that word,
for you won't find 1t. l coined it to
fit this case. 1t is something similar to
the word a~nslomaniac. 4 woman is an
- az FH' mr. Sly Il
achieved IA great triumph because she
has accomplished something that no one
but man has ever before done. 1t is a
woman who wants n college education
for no other reason than that men en-
ter colleges, a woman who wants to
practise medicine or law because men
admitted 10 the bar. although she may
be the first one of her sex to attain
mat distinction. But If she thinks that
the law rs a good field for women be-
Va 4 1 c InIs man Than RhA ill H.
injured.
IL will not say anything about the
IiPhtS or women to vote. l will stick to
the Scriptural teachings on my sub
Ject., There was no voting at Nazareth
IN the days of Mary, and so not even
Joseph could have voted. But had
y Wonid been be r y9tinS in those days It
"arE plcturing her going to the polls.
esq., wan TO say that this subject of suf-
a a very mas sSn 6esn handed by The women in
mat they should do certain things be-
cause men do them. Their narrow con
hnernent OF the line of argument ought
~ make intelligent women ashamed of
ner W superb but distinctive position
ousht to be more gratifying to her than
hayyeee' Possessed al the powers that men
time My. object in all this is not
70 ~ peLltiie the woman suffrage ques-
s.,t 10 W DTlnS out the
Serious side of the question. Man
dotS not understand woman, and woman
noes not altogether understand man
me Queen OF the home is the wife and
the mother. That is the Bible. You may
iot IKE 1t, but II is all the worse fol
you II You do not. The little common
wealth. of the home where she rules Is
rs important as the greater common
Nealth outside where men govern,
- not say that women ought not tc
re | nave no, studied that proposi
Il2h very carefully. do not know
whether you will understand at first JUS
MMNt l do mean, but | ask you to e
ilOhlle and study the question with thu
h,,ole as n basis to begin with"
Icy. DE- RVlance chose the question
- II eHpedient just now to concede tC
women the right Of political SUFFRAGE
Mark Church last evening. He tool
NJ" leNt from |. Timothy, II, 70:
Shner not n woman TO teach or L
rsVrP authority, over the majority. bu
This double injunction, he said, Nigh
ne cited against the people who insis
anht every word in the Bible is inspired
~ who are now taking the afirmatiy,
So. IN the present controversy OF
Mpman's rights. "But these same zeal
rs for plenary Inspiration" he said
,IfFing. enlisted in a crusade for wha
Sn'r call 'Woman's Rights can dismis
~ Faul as of no account when n
Sc ms to offend against the new idoiatr,
WI, winch they have taken up. IFS