Blue-grass blade., 1899-12-10

justifies himself in forcing obedience
by any method he may elect.
He believes too that II he murders
his wife In cold blood, and society
commits the crime OF swinging him
from the scafiold for the deed, he
can accept Jesus as his Savior and
be baptized and bis blood-stained
soul soul is thereby washed as white
as snow, and he is given q through
ticket to his heavenly home.
The murdered wife might have
been like the woman who was asked
by the parson "What she knew Of
the blessed Lord and Savior Jesus
Christi" With an enquiring look
she replied: Mister never heard OF
the gentleman. We live so far from
the big road, and John never tells
me nuthin of nobody that comes to
these parts"
If the murdered wife belongs to
that class that "lives so I ar from
the big road" her position Is the
murder route to eternal punishment
Great is the mystery OF godliness +"
Any religious law or custom that
fosters q spirit Of tyranny In the hu-
man heart strikes back at humanity
with terrible vengence, and the
obedience OF wives is an emphasized
Bible decree. / do not wish to con-
vey the idea that men are more tyr
annical or brutal under exasperating
circumstances than women. Not at
all. l think men and women are
both off the same piece of goods, and
that men exercise these propensities
more than women because the relig-
ious law has inculcated the idea that
man should rule, and woman should
be subject.
Neither the best men nor the
best women are fit to be trusted
with power over their fellows, for
us to this present time no man, aud
no woman ever had absolute power
over fellow human being, who did
not abuse it.
II the Bible taught that husbands
should be obedient and in 'subjection
to wives, the crime of husband mur-
der would doubtless be as common
as wife murder is today. But the
Bible does not deal with wo-
man as human being, or an indi-
vidual with human rights. Woman
from Bible point of view, is an
after thought of the Creator, to be
held in subsection to man, and
chiefly valued as being a race pre-
server. An act of disobedience or a
suspicion against wfe's chastity
is often considered sufficient cause
for numbering her; yet II all the
wives whose saint and sinner hus-
bands are untrue to them, should
pursue them unto death, the state of
Texas would not be large enough to
buy the victims. There would not
be enough members left in the
United States Congress to bury the
dead, or to object to Brigham Rob
erts taking bis seat.
Our marriage system decreeing
the obedience az subsection of wo-
men has been ma ged by the church
since the time of those rosebuds OF
domestic purity Solomon and David,
to the saints andjsinners of today
who murder wives, or food our di-
vorce courts. The condition of the
domestic life of Christendom pro-
claims the result of this wrong to
the mothers OF the race.
If women and men who realize the
alarming conditions OF society today
will copy and study every verse in
fba uolxx Rshlo f.ox, Noooe,, 80
Revelations that in any why alludes
to woman, they will not only have a
choice collie tion OF literary excerpts
of which even Anthony Comstock
would be proud, but the cause OF the
carnival of wife murder will be ex-
planned. The reason that thousands
more women are not victims is be-
cause men are so much better, gran
der, and nobler than their religion.
Every wife that has been murder
ed by her "lord and master" since
Constantine the wife murderer
es ablished the Christian religion, is
"a victim of the doctrine of the sub
juction of women.
Thousands of cases of wife murder
by the knife or bullet are yearly re-
corded in the press of Christian ma
tions, but there are thousands of
wives murdered by other methods of
which no notice is taken, and the |
Christian minister commits these |
victims to their graves with the
''The Lord gave and TAX
eth away, blessed be the name of the
Lord. ("
1t is high time that women who
are the chief support of Christianity
should turn search light on a re-
igious system that makes tyrants
and murderers of men, and slavish
and victims of women.
Poor humanity! Its life voyage is
enough without these
liabolisms destroying Natures di-
vine harmony between the sexes.
Jomradeship between the husband
Ind wife will evolve all that is best
q human Nature, and this can never
De done under q religious system
hat makes man the ruler and wo-
nan the subject. / have observed
hat the most religious people are
,he greatest tyrants. III men, they
,yrannize over women, and if wo-
men, they tyrannize over children
Ind servants. The spirit of tyranny
'anctioned by the Bible arms nations
10 destroy other nations, places the
ecclesiastical and political boss in
he saddle that they may ride rough
hod over their trusting and credu-