The Monitor-register., 1896-03-06
Only a Rib of Man.
A DISCIPLE OF DIR. BUCKEYES" TELLS
WHAT HE THINKS OF woMAN's PLACE.


The controversy in the Methodist
Episcopal Church over the admission of
women to the General Conference this
year, arouses some one with gift for
satire, who signs himself ga Disciple of
DIR. Buckley" to express, in the Buffalo
Uplook, the following views of "Woman's
Proper Status, corrected copy of which
he Cor she) sends The Voice:
Woman was an afterthought in cres.
ton. To be more scientifically exact,
man was created, but woman was pro.
duced; fragrant of man being used as
the base, with the addition of such odds
and ends as remaiI ed, or, If you please,
the sweepings in the Creators workshop
after all the worlds furnishings had been
completed. With such genesis 1t is
plain she can never be legitimately con-
sidered as the equal of man. 1t is con-
trary to the eternal order. 1t is unthink.
able by any judioially minded person.
In the very broadcast view allowable she
is only human fraction, which may be
expressed automatically thus:
Woman-IIlo
MAN
This formulated value corresponds To
the declared purpose Of her being. Like
everything else in creation, it was for
mans good. His very immensely made
her necessity. Born to lordship, his
voice must have tones Indicative of power
and authority; but with such qualities
any high order of music was impossible
without the complimentary ones BETTING
femininity, weakness and subsection. In
this harmonic relation we have the kew to
her whole significance. 1t suggests her
normal relation to the family, the state.
the church, and that perfected condition
of man which we call heaven. Because
it has been unknown or practically
ignored, the land is full of domest tic strife
and scandals; civic unrest abounds, with
usurpation of official prerogatives and
place; and the church, distracted with
Fictitious discussions, is dishonored by
women who, filled with the unholy ambi-
tion of "Eve to be as gods" are clamor.
ing for the chief seats in the sanctu ary,
and even threaten the sacred ordinances
with the proclamation of petticoated
ministry!
The failure of the Methodist Church to
understand woman's proper status is as
astounding as it has been calamitous. 1t
began with the admission of women to
the holy sacrament. Without single
passage of Scripture designating women
as proper recipients of the Lords Supper;
in utter contempt Of the historic fact that
not single woman was present In the
upper chamber when the ordinance was
instituted; and without any definite,
positive statement that the Apostles, who
were alone appointed to set everything in
order In the churches, ever administered
the bread and wine to a woman, the
founders Of our church opened the door
to innumerable and urwarrantable inno-
vations by allowing women to come to
the Lords table. The first-fruits of this
practical error soon appeared in the
teaching that women were also admitted
to heaven. AS tho it were not plainly
written. HE is the God OF Abraham,
and of Isaac, and of Jacob" rather than
of Sarah, Rebekah, and Rachel; as tho
Moses and Elias were not seen on the
Mount of TRANSPORTATION, rather than
Miriam or Huldah: "a tho it was not
Lazarus, rather than some poor widow,
who was -ried to Abraham's bosom: as
tho the 4 Bible was not without
single specific declaration of a woman in
heaven; as tho it was not positively
declared that in heaven they neither
marry nor are given in marriage but are
as the angels, and not a solitary female
angel named in either Old or Now Tesla
ments; and lastly, as tho it was not
specfica lily written in Luke Xxx. SO In. W.
they "are sons of God.' Notw ithstand-
ing all this cumulative and indisputable
evidence, the doctrine of women in
heaven was foisted upon the church, the
sure forerunner of an interminable dis
pute about her sphere and rights in this
world.
And what more shall be said +? With
st. Paul's clear and emphatic teaching,
"The woman is of the man." 81 suffer
not woman to teach and usurp authority
ever the man, but to be in silence;"
"Let your women keep silence in the
churches, for it is not permitted unto
them to speak," and SIT is a shame for
women to speak in the church, with
all this, Christianity has been scandalized
in the presence of the Brahman, Moham-
medan, and almost all the great ethnic
of the world and of the ages,
not only by admitting her to the Lords
Supper, and giving her the promise of
heaven, but also by allowing her to speak
in meeting, with possibility later on of
a seat in the general council Of the church
0 Temporal, o morss!-N 2. Voice.
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