Blue-grass blade., 1899-12-10
written for the RLur an.ss pLApr.l
THE ARCH
CRIME Of
CHRIS1END0M.
BY MRS. JOSEPHINE X. HENRY.

Iny OeSlre Suaii US w buy nus
band and he shall rule over thee
Holy Bible.
"Let the woman learn in silenc,
with all subjection. Holy Bible.
"Woman what have / to do will
thee2"-Jesus.
''Touch me not. Jesus to Mary
Magdalene.
CAL the wisdom OF Vedas, and al
that has been written in books, is tC
be found concealed in the heart of 8
woman. ."-Vedas.
"When women are honored the
divinities are content. Parse Bi
ble."
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/ have few ideas to express on
the greatest crime OF the ages, name.
ly WIFE MURDER. These ideas may
not accord with those of others, but
they are honest, and why should we
fear to express honest, thoughts?
The world today is battle field be-
cause humanity fears to express1its
honest thoughts, and because wo-
men and men are bond slaves to
laws and customs established by
dead generations, and conventional
tiles enforced by the living, in order
to retain power over the minds and
bodies of their fellows. Christianity
is crying out to the whole world
''come into our fold, and we will CIV
ilize, humanize, and save you, yet
the crimes Of Christendom put to
shame in numbers and brutality
those OF other ages and religions.
One OF the most frequent crimes in
the long calender OF crime in Chris
tendon is wife murder.
England and the United States
boast of leading the world in Chris
tian civilization, yet the press OF
these nations wreaks with the most
brutal murders of the wives, mis-
tresses, and sweethearts OF men,
many of these women bearing un-
born children in their bodies. In
the past four days the press of this
section of the United States records
the appalling fact that III women
have been murdered by men who
claimed them as wives or sweet
hearts. The murder of women by
men has grown so common that the
press gives less space to such an
occurrence than to pigeon shooting
match, fox hunt, or prize fight
Four thousand two hundred and
thirteen wives have been murdered
= by their husbands in Christian
United States in II months, and the
epidemic of woman killing is so wide
spread, that the young man, before
he gets wife, is trying his master
hand at the murder business, on the
young woman who rejects his atten-
tions. This carnival of wife and
sweetheart murder is food for deep
reflection to all who are observing
our Christian civilization with it's
alarming conditions.
To my mind the cause of all crimes
committed against women, is the
oft repeated command of the "Holy
Bible" that women be kept in sill
ence, subsection, and obedience to
their husbands.
l have searched the Scriptures
diligently and l find one of the first
acts of the God OF the Bible was to
curse woman, and the curse contin
ues from the first woman Eve in
Genesis, to tine scarlet woman of
Revelations, upon whose forehead
was written Mystery, Babylon the
Great, the Mother OF Harlots and
denominations of the earth, and this
curse has not been lifted even unto
this present day, when thousands of
women in Christendom for the crime |
of disobedience to their husbands |
are paying the penalty with their
lives.
The command for the subsection |
and obedience OF women to their |
husbands rings clear and true
through the whole Bible.
"Thy desire shall De to thy hus
band and he shall rule over thee.
"Wives submit yourselves to your
own husbands, as unto the Lord. "
"Let the woman learn in silence
with all subjection."
'I suffer not a woman to teach,
nor to usurp authority over the man
but to be in silence.
For Adam was first formed, then
Eve. And Adam was not deceived,
but the woman being deceived was
in the transgression.
"If a woman would know anything
let her learn OF her husband atf
home"
Let women adorn themselves in
modest apparel with shame-faced-
ness"
"The husband is the head of the
wife, even as Christ is the head of
the church.
"Let your women keep silence In
Che churches; for it is not permitted
unto them to speak; but they are
to be under obedience.
These commands are given 10
plain language, SO plain that 1t
seems to me that women with de-
fective mentality could understand
them. There is nothing in all the
range OF literature Of religions that
SO humiliates. insults and degrades
women as the commands of the
holy Bible" for her subsection and
II the Bible is God s
holy word, when 1t says that wives
must obey their husbands, and learn
In silence with all subJection, / take
1t for granted that God means what