Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-05-18
WOMAN AND
THECHURCR
c. j. TOPIC
Doctor Doremus Scudder DeliV-
ers Interesting Address on
OccasIcn of Woman'2 Day

ton OF the woman 10 the nurcH,
Taking as his text. Nevertheless,
neither is the woman without the man,
nor the man without the woman. in
the Lord For as the woman is OF the
man. so is the man also by the wom-
an; but all things are OF God. u Cor.
11:11-12," he spoke. in part, as fol-
lows:
To women even more than 70 men
the Christian church has opened
wider sphere Pauls doctrine OF re-
preston was in practice secuted even
in his own day. Once he was glad to
be welcomed as guest in the home OF
Evangelist Philip. who had four
preacher daughters, whom the great
missionary dared not face with his
dictum to the Corinthians, Let the
women keep silent in the churches"
The first four hundred years Of Chris.
tian history were glorious with the
leadership of women whose names
will never die. They fought with
beasts in amphitheaters as bravely as
men, they died for Jesus as nobly,
they formed rescue bands, built hos
pitfalls with their own money. added
their scholarship to enrich the labors
of such giants as Jerome and seemed
about to anticipate our own era OF
emancipated womanhood when Chris.
tianity married European heathenism
and begat the brood of children. known
as the monastery, the nunnery AMI the
papacy, 49,. 81.
Woman Always in Church. !
Yet even in the dark ages woman
held her ,pre-eminent place in. the
church, for Mary rivaled Jesus as vir.
tuaI God. You cannot take woman.
hood cut of the divine nature and
have left q deity whom strong men
and lovely women will continue to
Worship. It is no mere chance which
made Christianity present a regnant
Father, breeding Mother Spirit and
an ever present Brother-C omrade In
its completed picture of human soul.
The entire religious history Of man.
kind shows that woman must have
her rights in the Deity who is to pass
muster with the whole race Christi.
anity Is the only faith that ever dared
grant these rights. 49,, .esss
Therefore women have always
been loyal to the Church of Christ
They outnumber the men on the roll
Of membership and are likely to do SO
as long as they have ungranted lib
critics, because there is only one insti.
tuition to which In the last analysis
they can appeal with perfect conf
dence and that is the church. The
Bible is the only charter of absolute
freedom for both man and woman:
and the church is the only institution
which unequivocally stands by the BIZ
BILE. Whenever the freedom of sex
is menaced, you will see that sex rally
to the Christian Church because the
church is true to ideals. Take an ex.
ample. In Honolulu today the double
standard in sex relations for men and
women prevails. 1t is upheld by the
men, and heaven forgive them-by a
few women. perhaps, of our city. The
peoples attorneys have refused over
and over again to prosecute men for
sexual irregularities because they
know no male jury will convict. Mr..
Mccain, God bless him and strength.
en- his arm and give him wisdom and
self-control, recently tried two most
notorious cases, the details of which
would be enough in some American
communities to stir up lynching bee.
Thrice juries of men disagreed, nail.
ing to the mast that emblem of mascu.
line disgrace, the double standard.
Who in this city today openly de.
nounces the double standard? The
Christian church, that taken in its
larger sense of all affiliated with Il
and that alone. 1t is the bulwark of
safety for womankind here and you
all know it. Is it strange then that
women, conscious of their best social
friend, support the church? The only
wonder is that every right-minded
woman is not in the church helping
to make it what it should be.
Church Home Essential.
III the church means so much to
woman, woman equally bulks in value
/, to the church. First in practical
ministry Luke was nightly different
from Paul. In fact, the born physician
has large element of woman in his
makeup. In Ian Maclaren's portrait
Of Doctor Mcclure you will find the
luOIuSI uedTI III LHHJ rugged nature,
So where Paul was off in his estimate
OF women this beloved physician more
than made uD the lack Of his great
friend. You'd expect doctor to give
exactly the pictures of womankind
that Luke does. There, for instance.
is the group of women who went about
seeing that Jesus had enough to eat
and decent bed. John and James
and Peter and the others were splen.
did in denunciation, in longing to call
down thunderbolts from heaven, in
preaching and miracling. but we might
have had no cross if the women had
not kept their Lord strong for every
new fight with evil. Luke, too, paint
ed the immortal portrait of Mary and
Martha and told of the Woman's So
ciety for the comfort of condemned
criminals that helped the Savior on
His way to Calvary. What would the
Church of Christ have done without
the women to buy the carpet and fur
nish the pulpit and provide the dishes
and run the suppers and garland Gods
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