The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-27

text tonight. If can keep to a text, is Rev
elation it'll, "HoId fast that which thou
hast that no man take thy crown.
We are told that in religion there is no diff
ference between man and woman, between
their obligations and responsibilities. No
man can serve God and save his whole house
in the service. No woman can serve God and
guarantee through her service redemption to
her husband. Every human soul must stand
alone before God, be it the soul OF man or
woman. When listened to the reading OF the
chapter from the Proverbs tonight, I re-
membered having heard that chapter
preached from many time, but l
last verse and preach from it of the standing
of woman, and of her serving to clothe the fam
lily, of the security of her family from the cold,
because she saw them protected. have never
heard man preach from the text, she seeth
a field and buyeth it." Neither have l heard
sermon on the last verse, to which referred,
"Giye her OF the fruit of her hands and let her
own works praise her in the gates" We have
always been told that women were to be silent,
and if there is any praise to be given, it must
be through the husband. But here, you see,
we are told that woman is to have the fruit OF
her own toll and the works that she performs.
She is to be praised in the gates.
There are certain elements of our character
which the conditions OF the past have partially
at least crushed out of the life of woman, and
these are the natural characteristics of our hui
man nature with which every human being is
endowed. AS the first of these, l name the
right of individuality, the right of personality
the right OF being human being, distinct and
Women have always been judged as sisters,
as wives and mothers. never as individuals.
Men, on the contrary have always been judged
alone as 1t were. Yet there is ALWAYS certain
lego" continually asserting itself to the woman.
The forces which are raised against her are not
created by the Divine Being, but by man, by
custom, by social conditions. Self-sacrifice is
good, said the speaker, but self-assertion is
better No human being is competent to mete
out justice to another unless he is conscious of
that which is justice to himself Women have
bap
selves When their equality with men shall be
recognized, then and only then. shall it be pos
sible for the human child TO develop into what
the Divine Being intended ii should develop
into.
The speaker denounced the double plane
of morality which exists, the one standard
for man and the other for woman. She
grew bitter when she spoke of green
theological schoolboys" who have dictated
to women, and said that in the Whole his
tory of the world there has only been one
republic, that of the Jewish nation in
olden times, for it was there that women
were recognized as having voice in the
community. Miss Shaw touched on the
Bible revision which has been undertaken
by certain bright women and said that it
was imagined that these women proposed
to write new Bible. An eminent divine
is reported TO have said that the world
would never get TO correct understanding
OF the book till women were permitted to
sit on the board as Interpreters with men.
Miss Shaw quoted the lines from Mil
toms Paradise Lost where it is said in
reference to Eve and her husband, "He
worshiped the God, she the God in him."
land mind" said the preacher, sat that
time there was very small amount of God
in him." She disclaimed any antagonism
to man and stated that she was not one of
those people who like to rise on the fall of
others. That was not the idea of the con-
gress. pretty picture from one of the
works of Olive Schreiner was presented to
the audience, in which man and woman
and woman and woman were shown walk
ing hand in hand
Miss Shaw concluded: $50 has the fu-
ture possibilities for US only as we grasp
these great truths. Let us go home with a
heart full of gratitude to God for his great
mercy to us for the good times in which
we live, for the better conditions that sur