The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-05-17
OUGHT WOMEN TO PREACH

it also declares against women attending
church, for it reads, IF they would learn
anything let them ask their husbands at
home' If they were permitted to attend
church | do not see why they should be
expected to learn from their husbands
at home" Could they not hear as well
as their husbands at church? Why ne-
cessary to ask their husbands at home
what was said and done if they were
permitted to attend? Did they have no
understanding? Then, again, If we take
this Scripture literally, ignoring the CIR
cumstances and conditions under Whlch
it was written, we are driven 10 oDlect
to a woman's speaking at all IN the
church; for in the same Scripture we
read, For it is a shame for woman 10
speak in the church, Here you see II
is not preach but she must not speak,
simply keep her mouth shut aDsoiuteV
when she enters the church. Then IN
Tim. ZIP the same writer says, But l
suffer not a woman to teach. In one
place he suffers her not to teach ana III
another she must not even speak! Yes
the dear people of God whom | have
read after or talked with, on the subject,
while holding to the literal, as touching
woman's preaching to an audience where
there are men, modify the other part OF
the same Scripture ard make 1T mean
something to fit the customs and condi-
lions of the present time. Will you take
Paul in this matter literally and forbid
women the divinely given right to speak
the Word of God, then you at once shut
the mouths of women in the church as
teachers; for he distinctly says that he
does not allow them to teach in the
church Shall we take Paul literally, In
deed, here and forbid Ton that woman (
preaching? Then listen and tell us what
he can mean when he says, on another
subject touching woman II will, there
fore, that the younger women marry
bear children, guide the house" He here
advises the younger women TO marry, and
as there are more women than men, and
the Scriptures were intended for all wo-
men, you see we are at once in polygamy:
To be consistent, those who object to wo-
mems preaching should allow. no woman
to teach, speak in the prsycr meeting, OF
to wear costly array. SOLD, pearls, braid
ed hair; but to appear ~ shame-faeed
ness. In dealing out Christian privileges
to the dear Christian womA let's be real
consistent We recently met a dear broth
er who was not so much opposed to wo-
mans speaking to mixed audience just
SO she did not go into the pulpit! | have
been wondering if it was little more
sacred just two feet or three feet above
the floor than on the floor. In the pull
pit she would be in the same place only
little higher Paul in / Cor. xiv:34, So;
Tim. it'll, Il, evidently refers to such
as prayed and prophesied unveiled as az
pears from 1 Cor xi5-13. Paul in this
had respect simply to the usage of society,
as was his custom in matters of indiffer-
ence. His first public discourse in En-
rope was at a meeting of women, and his
first convert and host was a woman.
Not she with traitorous kiss, her SAVIOUR
stung;
Luke xxii:4748
Not she denied Him with unholy tongue;
Matt. XVI -
She, while apostles shrank, could danger
brave;
Matt xxvi:56
Last at the cross. and earliest at the
grave"
Matt. xxvii:55. 56:xxviii:1
MURDOCH w. BUTLER.
SMOKE la Josephine" and "Young
Fritz"