The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1896-08-27

all the time during which woman in
general among civilized nations, has
enjoyed any degree Of freedom from
unworthy determinations. Further
more her possession of opportunities
Of the higher kind is practically lin.
tied even yet to our own blessed
country and the various European
nations. Among untold millions
outside of these limits, she, the
treasurer of life and tender minister
to childhood, is still woefully abused
and the voiceless sufferer of meas
ureless agonies and humiliations.
Even among us and other progress
i've eople she has hanging about
various rags of the serfdom and
heartless subiugation she has endur-
ed. An incident at the coronation
Gar in May last shows that by the
Greek Church woman is still un-
relentingly held as an unholy being.
After the Czarina had been crown
ed she sat beside the Gear and par
ticipated equally in all the cere-
monies until it camo time for the
royal pair to receive the communion.
The Car went into the sanctuary,
but the Czarina knelt outside, as
women are never allowed within the
ikonostas. This is on the part with
the legend above a certain Mohame-
don temple: Women. dogs, and
other impure animals not allowed
to enter
Coming nov to the second point
raised by our editor Wives be sub.
missive to your husbands" Ihave
to state that he limits this largely to
n physical submission and on that
ground thought my article unworthy
of print, an opinion which fortunate
ly was not shared by any other Edi-
tor in the large list that publish
these Thoughts. L must be brief
but l will be emphatic.
He omits 'in the Lord" (Col. 3
49, No one Editor, nor ten thous-
and at once, could convince me that
a 1.-THE, fraction of the degrada-
tion to which We man is expected to
submit is sin the Lord. L do not
use the word degradation" with
out due thought. Whenever the
grandeur and the far-reaching in
huences of our various powers are
lost to sight, there is degradation.
He also omits any reference to
verse II of the same chapter, which
if it means anything must mean a
sanctificatiou of the supreme and
most fateful of home duties.
Our editor makes st. Paul his
stronghold. Space will not permit
more than n reference TO the contin-
ued influence over Pauls mind, Of the
Rabbinical teachings received at the
feet of Gamaliel. Though broaden
ed out so extraordinarily that he be-
came the Apostle to the Gentiles"
his views and thoughts upon women
remained colored by some Of the al
most childish theories of the Jewish
commentators. But the points to
be made clear and emphatic is that
our Editor comes near to hypocrisy
when he drags in st. Paups words
to bolster up his theories regarding
the position of women. One long
question will state this and close the
article. Are we men. who, contrary
to Jewish law, permit women to
teach men in Sunday school, and
who deprive ourselves of our priv
lege of 'instructing in law" when we
allow women to train little children
in Holy Writ are we, say, to be
mentally biassed enough to claim
that certain other Rabbinical limita-
tions regarding women shall con-
tinue in power, after We have given
a practical denial of force to the
greater number of them
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