The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-11-28
THE NEW BIBLE.

The "New Woman's Bible" is out al
least the first volume has been issued,
and the female suffragists will be
happy. The ''old mans Bible isn't IN
it for equality of the sexes and the like
with this new version translated by
woman herself. In fact, like female
suffrage. it seems not so much trans
lation as an Interpolation. Mrs. Eliz-
| abeth Cady Stanton, the venerable
| compiler. holds TO the sex-quality idea
from start to finish, metaphorically
annibilating the RIB" idea. The first
and second chapters of the old tesla
ment are no more, as we learned them.
1t is probably all right but we must
| confess that our orthodoxy is terribly
shocked by the downright blasphemy
of this new revision Of Gods word,
| whereby woman is to be saved from
the bondage which the new woman
holds has been imposed by man upon
her. In this connection we are tempt
ed to ask those who laughed to scorn
the Eagles oftime claim that woman
in politics meant the downfall of the
church and the destruction of the
home. as we know it, To read this new
Bible" which refers to Deity as a sex
quality whom il names the Heavenly
Mother and Father" The new YER
sion goes on to say that "the crOwning
work Of creation was the evolving Of
man and woman on the sixth day, the
masculine and feminine forces in the
image of God, that must have existed
eternally in all forms Of matter and of
mind" Woman. according TO this new
compilation, can no longer claim TO be
"the last and best" simply equal to
man, no better nor worse. And so the
rib story is held to be an Interpolation
by some willy man who wished to keep
woman down, fearing that she might
dominate him. Furthermore the wO-
man did not first fall through disobe- |
dience. Upon the contrary, evil always |
existed, says this new revelation, and !
so far as the Eve and serpent episode /
is concerned Eve did not only nOtseduce 4
Adam but she behaved throughout |
with Courage, dignity and lofty ambi-
ton And so along. man gets the I
worst Of it all the way through. When /
the narrative of Balaam is reached
that equestrian prophet is shown TO be
more dumb than the ass which he rode.
which the new Bible claims was not
only she ass hut like her sex could
talk and to the point
This new Bible movement Of the new
woman is intended to dignity woman
hood and to exalt the sex. 1t may do
50 in the eyes Of the female suffragists
and the bloOmer gang but hardly in the
of true men.
Thus the new woman not satisfied
with having conquered man has broken
nut in rebellion against her Creator and
'evised His Holy Book to accord with
Ter fin de steele ideas Better with
Payne and IngerSOll reject it altogether 1
han thus mutilate it by such adj
'anced q notions which are but sacri-
eye. Ignorant Of the languages in /
lOeS not hesitate TO rush in where '
-ngelS would dare not tread, and cut ]
nd slash, Obliterate and inteIDolate {
history held to be true for thousands s
f years, and not only true but sacred {
Denying that Moses talked with God S
ecauSe he quoted things that God di- I
ected which they do not indorSe. when |
he New Testament is reached she
oubtless viii deny the Divinity of i
hrist, if indeed she does not make '
lin out less than legitimate Seat Q
sring the consultations of the Word, d
hooking out humanity's hope and t
rop TO blessed eternal life. the glor- d
'us resurrection gone. the blessed vir- 4
in mother less than themselves. and c
II this as an upward step in the eleva- V
on of women. n