The Press., 1895-12-26
Number 30.

til l, Deborah, mother in Israel, rose q" and we point to the fact that the judges of Israel were always understood by those people to be divinely selected for their position; and, being thus divinely select ed, we cannot assume that any human being could have taken this position who was not recognized by the people at least to have been chosen by God, and, even with the authority of the Bishop back of 1t, we cannot assume that God did not not know what He was doing when He chose Deborah to be judge in Israel.
 If the Bishop thinks God made a mis- ke he will have to wait forever to cor rect 1t, for 1t is done, and we cannot 10 back of the record. This women found country greatly disturbed, country where the people were utterly demoral- ized, where they dared not walk on their highways because of thieves and robbers, but were compelled to go secretly through cross-lots in order to get from city to city. During the forty years of her reign as judge of Israel the whole condition of things was revolutionized. We are told that she judged all the people in right eousness, and the people had peace for forty years. Just think of forty years of peace! We have never known such a De- riod since that day. Now, then, this wo- man was not, we are told by the Bishop, Gods woman. If, then, she was not Gods woman, whose woman was she? And if God Is not able to recognize His own, what will become of us at the last {? We believe that this judge in Israel was di- vinely ordained for the work, because oth- erwise she could not have done her work so we'll.
 This same divine tells us that Miriam was not Gods woman either that this woman was @ sort of a something inter polated for the times of war and distress. All great souls are interpolated for great occasions when they are needed. And when God wants certain thing done that he knows needs a woman to do 1t, he gen. erally raises woman and not a man for the position. The world needed woman Here was the boy Moses, under the reign of man by whom he would have been put to death in his boyhood, but that the loving heart of his mother said, "He shall not die;" and she hid him away. ~E.,
 We are told that women have no req soning powers. They are not able to ar- rive at logical conclusions. When was studying theology 8 young man in my class in the same college who was arrayed, as they always are the first year, with a coat buttoned up high around the neck, l oil dAid hn fh0nDhf Ia duty to warn me in the beginning. He said, "You are making a great mistake !; God never intended woman to preach the gospel. God has so constructed the brain of a woman that she cannot give a correct and continuous eXegesis of scripture" /" Doesn't that sound like first-year stu dent2 "It may be-" said, ''that God has constructed our brain so that we cannot give correct and continuous exegesis oI lGonintute But &E I'll rGk ao1st414ca 6It i - 4e 1na1nGi = place in 4t 1n which He has bestowed Q llarge amount of gumption. Now, if we have not the power of exegetical ability, we have gumption enough, If we under. take to preach and preach our church empty, to get out of the pulpit and go in. to the pew" What grand thing it would be for the church at large If the other sex had some of that kind of gumption There might not be so many Bishops either.
 Now this woman, Miriam, we are told, is not Gods woman. But see this little woman's gumption, how she gets around the young princess, and the mother-heart of the young princess goes out towards the babyl She was 8 woman, though she was princess. See how shrewdly this little girl planned 1t so that the child's mother should become his nurse, and guidance and how, under the.care of hie mother, Moses was reared to become the leader of the people of Israel! You see that in all that transaction God did not need man, and He did need number oi women; and He found women enough oi the kind He wanted to do just the work that He wanted done. What more natu, ral than that when Moses, years after led the people out from Egypt, there went by the side of the great leader his sister Miriam, and that they, with their other brother, became the united leaders of the children of Israel out from their bondage If God chose 8 woman to act in these cases, when the world needed 8 clear brain, a tender, affectionate, loving, moth erly heArt firm and determined will and chose the woman to do 1t, and if when the people needed 8 leader to guide them out of bondage to freedom, He chose 8 woman to be among the leading instru ments of that great undertaking, who shall dare to say, be he layman or priest that such woman is not Gods woman
 The Bishop says there are certain class. es of women who are Gods women. w want to know who they are, because ther we can range ourselves on the right side Gods women, according to the Bishop are "the Ruths, the Rachels, and tho Marys."
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