Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-11-10

4 Declaring that Tie 10th century
4 woman will be a consummate mother,
entirely apart from the mere incl
dent OF having children or not" DIR.
Dofemus Seudder gave deeply inter
esting sermon at Central Union
church last night THE 29th Cen
fury Woman" was his subject and he
tees as his text Matthew 1928
Then Jesus answered and said unto
her, o woman, great is thy faith; be
1t done unto thee even as thou wilt -
DR.. Scudder said:
What the 10th century woman will
become IL is not within the province
Iof any man or any woman TO foretell.
But jesus words to chat humble
minded SyTophcenician mother. the
only person SO far as the records
shcw who ever got the better of him
lin contest Of wits, hold true for all
time. OtwoTnan, great is thy faith:
be ii done unto thee even as thou
wilt. This is the God-given motto
of the new woman of the coming gen.
eration. Woman will get in character
land influence exactly what she sets
tcut to win Poor blinded Britishers
lGo not seem to recognize what stone
wall they are butting their heads
against in their Falstafiian escapades
with the suffragettes. Some people
need to have the truth pounded into
them.
| Thirty years ago specialized sci
entists with long alphabetical name
tails ransacked history and exhausted
brain measurements to prove that
woman was mentally mans inferior;
fshe could not keep up with him in
intellectual gymnastics; her talents
were distinctly more restricted; uni
yersity education for her, especially
along lines pursued by men, was a
sheer waste. Gentlemen OF this per-
suasioh are now snugly entombed. A
belated specimen Of the genus may
occasionally appear as a melancholy
lreminder of atavism--a dead ances-
tor. come to life in one Of his I'M
lucky descendants.
No, a Hetty Green id successful
finance, a Madame Curie in pure sci
enee, a Jane Adams in social re-
form, an Ella Flagg Young in educa-
tioflal leadership, alsIlelens Gould Shep-
herd ora Mrs RUSSELL Sage in intel
| ligeHt pk4lanthropy, a Frances Will
lard IN oraterical power; a hundred
brilliant literary stars plus the UNI
e6unted thousands in every Alarge
community who stand at the frSnt of
every division Df human end,lavor
oyerwhelfa with shame the manflwh
d few years ago prated about that
<ferif 4SS4s
the world abounds lin men who in
their in1hcst hearts believe the tnas-
culine gender superior That linger-
Il ing superstition the 10th century
woman win finally exercise from civ
Hired humankind. s. IL
Motherhood Has Not Had Due.
Motherhood has never had its due
| in the Christian religions That is the
one fault In the New Testament. Je-
sus stated clearly the divine Father
hood. But so Tar as his reported
words go he was silent about the di-
vine Motherhood though he somewhat
dihiIy shadewed It forth sinder the
sernblaHce OF the Holy Spirit. The
Old Testament was q strife more ex.
plieit than the New here 1T would
have been an incalculabie gain for hui
mainly If Jesus had taught the divine
Motherhood as clearly asshe did its
correlative, the divine Fatherhood.
For you cannot convince a woman
who has had a good mother that
lmoth erhood is not as truly divine dis
/ fatherhood z The q Roman church,
which after all is most human in its
i deep intentions, Felt compelled to ere.
j ate a Mother of God out of Mary. and
$50 satisfy the gearing of the heart
for this attribute of Deity. Let us
then be fair and place motherhood
len an equal plane with ifatherhood in
the economy Of the human race
This done, my fundamental convic.
ton is that the 10Th century woman
will be a Econsummate 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 thar
they ever have had. The exploita
tion OF women through wedlock will
cease except among those women who
wish to be exploited. Fhere are poly
androus women as we'll as polyga
nous men. and this inherited taint
will not soon be eradicated. But
more and more men win exalt the
spiritual in marriage. In the transf
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 unit
: each partner meets the others coun
lterpart. and until found how to trans
fern sexual energy into unselfis
work, divorces and remarriages with
ell their unspeakaE1e train of socia!
evils must be expected. We are fiV
ing in an era of social rebirth. The
world over never saw its like The
very foundations OF society are being
relaid. We must expect dust ant
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 6