The age-herald., 1898-01-06
HIS VIEW OF WOMEN.
Rev. A. C. Dixon Says She Has Powerful h.
 fluence on Man.

From the New York Journal.
 Woman is either an angel or powerful adjunct of wickedness
 She can either elevate man or drag him down to the lowest depths.
 The three apostacies Of modern tines were led by women-Spritualisra, Christian Science and Theosophy.
 Under womans guidance man sinks in comprehensibly low.
 The Rev. Arthur c. Dixon, pastor oI the Hanson Place Baptist church, Brooklyn, paid his respects to ''Woman" in the course of his sermon last night.
 He first startled his hearers by saying that women had led the three notable apos- taces of modern times-spirtualism Chris tian science and theosophy. Continuing, he declared that woman, of necessity, is either "an angel or a powerful adjunct of wicked ness" She can occupy no intermediary stage.
 MT. Dixon expressed emphatically his dis approval of the ordination of women as nm isters of the Gospel. 'She is physically and spiritually incapacitated for preaching the word of God,'' he declared,
 Members of the congregation stopped In the vestibule of the church after the ser vice had concluded and discussed the ex- pressions of their pastor with considerable warmth. Many of them expressed their disapproval of his utterances.
 The sermon was the eighth in the series generically entitled, Sights and Shadows of American Life"
 MT. Dixon abused the modern newspaper in picturesque eloquence last Sunday, and a large audience awaited in eager expect ancy for some biZane expression in line with the general tone of the sermons of the Lights and Shadows" series.
 The members of the congregation didn't have to wait long, The tall, handsome man on the rostrum had but announced his text when he applied it with shock like that attending actual cautery.
 The ''Seyen churches" in the Book of Revelations was the theme of the sermon.
 "The woman's church," said MT. Dixon, "as represented in Asia, was really a wicked institution, for it was led by a wicked woman.
 capable of glorious deeds. but with her there is no so-called happy medium. Man may be indifferent. He may be neither good nor wicked, but with woman such a state can never obtain.
 "Wonan is either an angel a powerful adjunct of wickedness. She can either ele- vate man or drag him down to the lowest depths.
 "The three apostaces of modern times were led by women. Spiritualism was start ed by the Sisters Fox and began to rot before it began to bud
 Christian science, with its leading expo nent in Miss Eddy. is another example of how fallacious and wicked may be the doc trineS suggested or taught by women.
 That so-ca led science contends that there can be no sin. pain or affiiction in the world, and how unnatural and unreasona- ble is such belief. But 'tis but another example of woman's baneful influence.
 Madame Bavatsky, in her idiotic men, tai wanderings, shows how women can also lead prove a powerful adjunct to lead ing men into error. Under womau's guid- ance man sinks incomprehensibly low"
 MT. Dixon deplored the fact that women were ever ordained to the ministry He said there was no warrant in the New Tes- tament for woman's being allowed to preach. Her place was in the home but not in the pulpit. She could. he thought, be power for good in the former sphere
 'I believe" he continued. ''n woman talk ing part in public affairs, but emphati- cally don't believe in her being ordained to preach the ministry. She is physically and spiritually incapacitated from preach ing the Gospel"