Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-05-04
Why Nor Women Than Mem

Til, i the theme al a late discourse
10y Rev. II. Francis Perry, OF Baptist
church III Chicago, a etcnographic re-
port 81 which appears in the Times.
Heraf}. The question seems to be 20
fnlly and trutlifully answered. that We
reproduce >cIerAl ri the most salient
paragraphs from the sermon:
"Chr>tianiiy has been the cmanripa.
ton and the rXaltatipn "i womanhood.
~ lar a. the Bible record goes no wo-
man spoke against Christ during His
ministry. y Woman annointei Him ful
the burial. Women. protected lay THEN
sex. stood beside the cross. The Marys
formed part OF the little funeral process.
sion to Joseph's tomb. He appeared
first after His resurrection 10 Mary.
The first convert in Europe To Chris
tianity was a woman. \ very crown OF
glory has been placed upon the fai,
head al redeemed WUmanhoUd by Jesus
Christ.
We're Christianity ever overthrow i,
would d"uhtlc,s mean that woman
would become again the slave and play.
thing OF man, and lose the fair heritage
which she now possesses.
There are more women than men in
the church because woman intutivelv
recognize. the truth.
1T has been well said that woman
loves the concrete of person. A man
enjoys the abstract view of life Ambi.
ton, seltishness, calculation is less con-
splcuous i'll woman than in man. The
aifectlonate nature is strongest in wo-
man. a woman loves and trusts with
her whole being while man is too apt
to make these only a part of his life.
If the w0man'S love is requitted it is
everything to her, ii the mans love is
not received he turns elsewhere for its
fultillment. There is greater blank in
a woman's life when love is dead or lost
than in mans life. She feels the need
ef Christ.
" But the greatest reason of all why q
woman is by nature more inclined to re-
llglouS things than a man is because her
moral life is purer than that OF the av-
erage man. 1t is not discredit to have
more women than men interested in re-
ligion, but it does reflect most emphati-
cally upon men that they have no great
er place in the church,"
And it might not be amiss to con
slider whence came the subsection of
woman that has afforded the new dis.
pensation an opportunity for enamel
patton and exaltation of the better
half of the higher creation. Emanci.
patton implies liberation from re.
straint, and e-altation lifting up from
a state of subsection. Whence this
subsection, unless from the Mosaic
teachings OF woman's inferiority, found
from the first book, which stamps
mans helpmate with original sin, to
the closing chapters, placing her under
a curse and on the plane of abject SER
vitude to man? 1t is special cause
for Joy to women that Christ abrogat-
ed the cruel iujunctions of the patri-
archal creed, such as eye for eye and
tooth for tooth, and has supplanted a
rule of hatred by the teachings of love.
If the biblical account of creation
be conceded, woman's transgression ad-
mitted, and Adams fall as sequence
granted, we're there no bounds to the
punishment of her innocent daughters
until the Master said, to the most de-
PRAYED of her sex: Neither do l con-
denim thee; 60 thy way and sin no
MORE? 1t seems not.
Hence the emancipation and exal-
tation of womanhood," through Chris
tionity, should receive, and is receiv-
ing, the warmest heartbeats of the
faireT members of the human family.