The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-04-14

that relation which began in a gener-
Gus Instinct and met with grateful re-
Spouse should. through selfish desire and
license on the one hand and mute for
bearance on the other. sooner or later de-
generate into sensual despotism of men
and of corresponding subordination and
degeneration on that of woman
admire and revere St Paul as one OF
the ,grandest figures in all history. Never
theless. he, though an eXpounder and
teacher Of infallible truth, was, like every
other human being, fallible and more or
less subject in his opinions to the warp
ing influence of ethics and customs pecu-
liar to the age and schools in which he
lived and taught. ! hope and believe
that when he said "A wonans desire
shall be to her husband he did not mean
that Il wife should, because of her phys
ical infirmity, place herself below the
level of the same sex in the brute crea-
ton.
If he did, so much the worse for him.
and the men who have taken advantage
of his words and subjected their wives to
treatment which has resulted in that
crime.of crimes, enforced mothe RI God
and as Lady Somerset tells it IN the Are
ma. "unwelcomed children" 1t is be-
cause the grand women OF the Bible
revision committee are deeply interested
and concerned in Gods plan OF the uni
verse and the salvation OF sinners, that
they wish to redeem that plan" from
! the low level and false position to which
! it has been prostituted by sexual practices
! that would not be tolerated by any en- :
| lightened breeder of live stock for the
race course or even for Phil Armour S
packing establishment.
| The salvation of sinners is Just what
they are aiming to help accomplish by
| beginning right here and now amidst
| known institutions which are givin g
! shape and charac er to human souls yet
unborn.
! am aware that these excellent,
motherly. sisterly and in the very highes,
sense Christian ladies have large and
somewhat unsavory job on their hands
but think that by assuming u forgiving
/ attitude over the frantic efforts of certain
conservatives in behalf of the old order
| which is dying as fast as can be expect
ed under the circumstances will
with the help of Just God and of al
decency and Justice loving men and
women, finally succeed.
And when the end is accomplished the
sexes will be, not farther apart but nearer
! together, more to each other and closer to
God than ever before, while the genera
plan of the universe and the salvato on
of sinners" will not have been materially
! disturbed. Humanity grows by slow
stages, but still it grows. The records Of
one age become the cast-off shells of the
next.
| 1t is said that God himself "winked'
at sins which Christ afterwards de-
nouncd. Why? Because later generations
live in greater light. We do not read any
rebuke in the scriptures for the Hebrew
! king who had 800 wives and nearly as
| many concuDines, but who thinks of JUS
| flying Solomon in the light of existing
| moral standards?
! In that intensely interesting history oil
! the conquest of Mexico which i, now
being translated for the Sunday Herald
by John +. Gaifey. we read how the
| great Montezuma displayed his good
nature and gcnn--e'+'- ~ '-'l-;,- ',~c~---t-