The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-17
THE WOMAN'S BIBLE.
HOW THE WORK on THE NEW VER-
SION Is BEING CARRIED or.

Timothy. and Not Abuse Him-aIrS.
StantOn's Orthodoxy Questioned.
From the Chicago Times-Herald.
Woman, in the person OF Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, has laid her hand upon
Genesis, the Exodus. Leviticus. the
Psalms OF David and the songs Of Solo
mon, the script OF Matthew and the word
Of the Acts, and is about TO bring forth
from them and their companion pieces a
new Bible. The revision or new transla-
ton is to be The Womans Bible. The
version of the Bible addressed to "the
most high and mighty Prince James and
the revision Of the same. completed but
a few years ago. leaves woman's posi-
ton in the scriptures, asserts Mrs. Stan
ton, far inferior to that Of man. Deduct
lively the creation Of Adam before Eve
was not an error of the Almighty. but Of
the translator who first attempted TO give
His word to the English-speaking races.
Mrs. Stanton's co-laborers or apostles in
the preparation of the new work are
named to include Lady Henry Somerset,
Miss Frances Lord, Mrs. Stanton Blatch,
who is Mrs. Stanton's daughter, and Mrs
Alice Cliff Scatcherd of England. and the
following of America:
Frances r. Willard, Lille D. Blake,
Rev. j. Hanaford, Mrs. L. B. Chandler,
Rev Olympia Brown, Carrie Chapman-Cat
MIS-. KObt lngersoh, Josephine X. Henry,
Ellen b. Dietrich, g. A. +. Stebbins,
Frances l.. Burr, Helen NJ Gardener
Matilda Joslyn Gage, Clara Bewick Colby,
Sarah A. Underwood, Mrs. u. b. Grannis
Mary a. Livermore.
Mrs Chandler is to have the revision of
the Book OF Timothy, wherein the lines
run:
But 1 suffer not a woman to
teach nor TO usurp authority over the
man, but to be in silence"
Matilda Gage viii revise Matthew and
KeEelation. while Mrs. stanton herself
VIII edit, eXpurgate and interpolate Gene
sis. At her 80 years Of age (she will cele-
brate that birthday in November the
task set Is no light one. She hopes the
book VIII be completed this year. and
thinks it will contain about 400 pages
The new Bible is not yet completed, but
so tar progressed that its publication is a
probability. How far the work of the re-
Visers has extended into the Greek Syriac
ana Latin versions is not made known
What special rules for correcting existing
TRANSACTIONS, what new fountains of
knowledge have been drawn on, has not
been ascertained. Mrs. Stanton herself
in speaking on the subject in New York
Saturday, threw no light upon this inter
esting phase Of the revision. Scholars
and the school of students following Max
Muller's use and origin of words will
look TO her version of st. PauIs utter
ance:
For the woman which hath an husband
is bound by the law to her husband so
long as he liveth."
or those hurtling words to the Corin-
thians:
The wife hath not power of her own
body, but the husband. The head
OF the woman is the man for the
man Is not OF the woman. but the woman
of the man. Neither was the man created
Tor the woman, but the woman for the
man"
But Mrs. Stanton did have much to say
OF interest in regard to this last ambition
of her busy life.
The idea of a revision" she said,
originated with me years ago. I have
always been a deep student of the Bible
ana since l went into the work for the
advancement of woman have found that
the worst foe We had was the misconcep-
ton OF the Bible as regards women 1t
arose frequently from translations and
! mad taken away the self-respect of woman
and made her the slave to man AS time
/ passed ! saw more and more clearly that
TINS must be combatted if woman was to
obtain her proper status in life The i'm
portance of the idea grew upon me. We
Know that many mistranslations in the
Bible did us injury, but II was long be-
dote my co-WoIheIs could pc brought 10
attach the same degree of Importance to
II that l did. / believe that we should
claim equality in the church as well as
in the state, and the one must necessar-
lily entail the other. / said that women
must get together and revise the Bible,
so Tar as their position was concerned in
Mrs Stanton then went on to describe
the progress of the work and the part
taken by the several women who be-
came interested in it. Asked to what the
utility of the revision would be- what its
practical accomplishment, she said:
1T will restore the self-respect of Wo-
men. have seen that women believed
themselves cursed Of God: that they are
the origin of sin and that maternity is
a condition of slavery. If they could only
be brought to see that instead of that
they were represented in the Godhead at
creation, that woman was created in the
image of the motherhood then they might
regain their self-respect. This, 1t seemed
to me, could only be accomplished by a
revision of the Bible, and while the work
proceeded only slowly the ultimate neces-
sity for Ii never. left me.
In brief to take materialistic view
OF the matter, in the progress of the race
from savagery to civilization, woman has
been kept in an inferior position. She
still occupies 1t now that an advanced
state of civilization has been attained one
thing that keeps her there is the misin-
depreciation of the Bible as regards wo-
man. The correction of this will restore
her and deprive her enemy, man, of rea-
attack"
Mrs Elizabeth Greenwood, the national
evangelist of Brooklyn. was also seen In
regard to the womans Bible. She said she
had been asked to take part I'm the wo>
mems revision of the Bible, but for certain
reasons had been Obliged to decline. Mrs.
Greenwood has given considerable atten-
opinion of the movement. She declined,
however to say anything, remarking that
there were certain reasons which forbade
her giving her views on the subject.