Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-11-10
TNEHTIFTHCENTURY NOMANI0BE
CONsUMMAH MOTHER SgUDDER

woman will be a c0nsummate mother,
entirely apart from the mere incl
dent of having children or not DR..
Doremus Scudder gave deeply inter
esting sermon at Central Union
( church last nikllt The 10th Cen
fury Woman" was his subject and he
took as his text Matthew 1928:
Then Jesus answered and said unto
her, o woman, great is thy faith; be
IL done unto thee even as thou wilt =
DIR. Scudder said:
What the goth century woman will
become 1t is not within the province
! Of any man or any woman to foretell.
But jesus words to that humble
minded Syrophoenician mother, the
only person so far as the records
shcw who ever got the better of him
in contest OF wits, hold true for all
thine. o woman, great is thy faith:
be il done unto thee even as thou
wilt This is the God given motto
Iof the new woman of the coming gem
leration. Woman will get nscharacter
land influence exactly what she sets
Tout To win. Poor blinded Rritishars
do not seem to recognize what stone
wall they are butting their heads
against in their Falstaffian escapades
with the suifragettes. Some people
Eneed TO have the truth pounded into
them.
Thirty years ago. specialized sci
entists with long alphabetical name
tails ransackea history and exhausted
Ibrain measurements to prove that
woman was mentally mans inferior;
she could not keep up with him in
intellectual gymnastics; her talents
were distinctly more restricted; uni
versity education for her, especially
along lines pursued by men, was
sheer waste Gentlemen of this per-
snasion are now snugly entombed. Al
debated specimen of the genus may
occasionally appear as melancholy
reminder of atavism--a dead ances.
tor come to life in one of his un.
lucky descendants.
No. Hetty Green in successful
finance, a Madame Curie In pure sci
ence, Jane Adams in social re-
form, an Ella Fiagg Young in educa-
ltl0nal leadership, Helen Gould Shep-
herd ora Mrs. Russell Sage in intel.
ligsnt philantllropy, Frances vii.
lard in oratorical power. a hundred
brilliant literary stars plus the UNI
lcountad thousands in every large
Ecomn1unity who stand at the front Of
every division bif human endeavor
Ioverwhelm with shame the man who
a few years ago prated about what
/ a feminine brain could not do. Still
Ethe world abonnds in men who In
ltheir inmost hearts believe the mas.
iculine gender superior. That linger-
ing superstition thexs20th century
woman will finally exercise from civ
Eilized humankind. IS
|MotherhDod haS Mot Had Due.
Motherhood has never had its due
In the Christian religion That is the
one fault IN the New Testament. Je-l
sus stated clearly. the divine Father
hood But SO Iar sas his reported
words go he was silent about the di-
vine Motherhood though he somewhat
diInly Swallowed 1t forth under the
semblance' Of the Holy Spirit. The
Old Testament was trifle more ex-
plieit than tile New here. 1t would
have been ansincalcuhble Gain for hui
mainly Il Jesus had taught the divine
Motherhood as clearly as he did its
corTeiative, the divine Fatherhood.
For you cannot convince a woman
who has had good mother that
motherhood is not as truly divine as
fatherhDcd. The Roman church.
which after all is most human in its
deep intuitioRs, felt compelled to ere.
ate Mother Of God out of Mary, and
SO satisfy the gearing of the heart
/ for this attribute OF Deity. Let us
then be fair and place motherhood
on an equal plane with fatherhood in
the economy of the human race.
This done. my fundamental convic.
ton is that the 10Th century woman
will be consuinmate mother OF
course this is entirely apart from the
mere incident of having children OF
her own or not. For one thing is
certain, during the next generations
women in enlightened countries will
have more to say about marriage than
they ever have had. The exploita-
ton Of women through, wedIock will
cease except among those women who
wish to be, exploited There are poly
androusa women as well as polyga-
nous men, and this inherited faint
will not soon be eradicated But
more and more men will exalt the
spiritual in marriage. In the transit
ton stage, which may last centuries,
during which both sexes are learning
by sad and costly experiment how
to reach the goal of making no mat
rimonial mistakes. how to wait until
each partner meets the others cour.
terpart, and until found how to trans.
form sexual energy into unselfish
work. divorces and remarTiages with
all their unspeakabie train of social
evils must be expected. We are liy-
ing in an era of social rebirth. The
world over never saw it's like The
very foundations of society are being
relaid. We must expect dust and
CRIME. the hiss Of steam drills, deadly
accidents, blood and tears. But Gods
ideal, one man, one woman in indis-
soluble union, will emerge like a
sculptor's immortal creation from the
UnshaDen block '. ~