The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-12-29
W0MAN'S MORALITY
NEEDED To STAMP
OUT MORAL LEPERS
Her Stern Attitude as Well as
Her Purity and Weakness
Would Exterminate False
Standards.
Or. Bowie, in Sermon, Tells
Why He Believes Women
Needed in World of Business
and Politics. Wherever They
Enter They Garry Purity.

Rev w. Russell Bowie last night
preached to congregation which
occupied the greater numser Of seats
in ST. Pauls Episcopal church on tho
hood" In the course of his serm n
the minister said that the world WAS
IN need of the purity, the meekness
and the spirituality of womanhood,
the characteristic, which with those
virtues generally attributed to men
Rre embodied in Christ. and that the
feeling of this ne ed and the posi-
bility OF Improving the business hfe
Of the world by bringing women into
Il were the reasons why he believed
chat woman suffrage was y good thing
We need the womans standard %
purity. but VIC need her standard Of
sternness as well" emphasized the
preacher. we need the sternncss
which will ostracise the neral lePc7
from society. that viii grind down
and exterminate the false and wing
standards, that will enable her ~
guard and retain her own purity ami
make the world morally clean by her
presence IN IT.
Suffrage VIII Come.
THE higher education was feared
some years ago because II was
thought that because Of It The NO
mems virtues would ne lost. 1t Il not
feared now, Tor wherever t..TT-Z tt77rTr
entered they have carried their oHNn
purity The pulpit is no piece to dis
cuss woman's suffrage. and wonld
not spsak az 1t here hllt foT the BE,
lief that by /, the standards Of the
outside werfd may he raised II !
thought that the granting Of the ballot
To women welld break the saartity OF
the home I should give the movement
no aid but believe that saffrasc win
come Ia pass, that IL should do SO and
that we need IL
Continuing DIR Bowie said Man,
in the grind and strain Of business.
loses sight NJ the gentler and sweeter
things of life, He Is concerned with
the external things more man with
the human aud personal values of Nte
and needs the influence which woman
exesrts. believe that ono way -
meeting this requirement IS the
granting Of the ballot 80 women. II
II one way by which womans soul
may be given expression Of the sre&;
est value and is an advance toward a
larger experience for all
Would bring Purity.
The advance would bring to tho
world purity spirituality truth and
sincerity. something very sweet. Tia"
world needs more Of the meeiSne~s
the purity of her characteristics. We
must have in ms those things which
Christ incorporated in himself. Thess
things are sovereign and even so
much as does woman's soul express
itself Just so much will the word at
tain to the kingdom OF God"
During the early part of his SER
mon Or Bowie spoke Of the char
ncteristics of Christ how the Son Of
God possessed not only the mascu-
line virtues. but also those generally
attributed to women, He showed the
meekness and veneration with which
Christ treated women from Mary, his
mother, in the stable, through the
course of his life TO the cross.
Summing up this the minister said
Rand he was not only the strongest
man OF his time. but had all of those
God given virtues most admired of
women"
The First Emancipation.
He also told of how this regard for
women by Christ had led TO the first
emancipation of the feminine sex.
Before the coming of the Lord they
were held In bondage, stsajeet to Wife
sale and child marriage This condi-
tion of holding back the standard OF
motherhood retarded the development
Of the race The attitude of Christ
~ exemplified in his meeting with
me women at the weit gave them
new and higher standard. Dr. Bowie
emphasized the fact that before tho
time OF Christ Egypt was the only
country In which a woman had played
I mart in history. and even here II was
because of the unwomanness rather
than the womanness of Cleopatra.
which gave her a place In 1t.
The service last night was attended
by a large congregation. the greater
tpart OF which were women. Many
~ them are actively engaged In the
fostering OF the woman's suffrage
movement.