The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-06-26
OCALA, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, JUNE %, 1914
WOMAN'S POSITION IN RELATION
TO MAN, FROM A SCRIP
TURAL VIEWPOINT
Ocala, Fla, June 90, 1914.

Ocala, Fla, June 90, 1914.
To the Editor Ocala Banner:
A short article l read in the Bar
ner few days ago upon the subject
OF giving the right to vote to women
has caused ne to write the following
article. You appeared to give your
endorsement to the article which ycv
published, but l cannot agree with
you, because I think the biblical re a.
tiCn OF woman to man is against you.
Now, let US see how it looks from
a scriptural viewpoint:
First, God created man, ard pre-
pared and planted a garden for him.
and took the man and put him in it
to dress it and to keep it. (Gen. ILL.,
Is, inclusive.)
How long the man remained, all in
his lonesome, working the garden, be-
fore the Lord concluded it was not
good for him to be alone, we are not
told It may have been days, weeks,
months or years, but it matters not
what the length of time before the
Lord said it was not good for him to
be alone, and so determined to make
q help-meet for him. (Gen. 11:18.)
1t was at any rate after Adam had
given names to all living things as
they passed before him, but he alone
was found not to have a help-meet
So God provided one for him, taking a
rib from Adam to begin with, and aft
er he had made the woman he
brought her to Adam and presented
her to him. (Gen. 11:21, 22.)
So man was first created and given
dominion over all creatures before
the woman was made, and when she
was made she was subordinate to
man, because she was taken from him
and then presented to him as his
help-meet, and the record tells us
that very soon after that the curtain
rose on the first act of the tragedy
which drowned the world in perpetual
sorrow and grief, and soon, very soon,
the scenes shift and the curtain sud-
denly goes down, and the two star per-
formers who had God and his angels
for their audience, make their exit
from the beautiful playhouse of
Eden! Why? Because the actress
took her cue from the wrong prompt
er. See the record of this dire calam-
ity in Genesis, Bird chapter.
But 80 specially bear on the point
of which I am writing, see the 18th
verse of the 3rd chapter of Genesis,
especially the latter clause of the
verse, where we see away back in the
day-dawn of history that by the de-
cree of the Almighty Creator himself
the woman was to be subject to the
rule of the man. 1t would seem that.
to thoughtful minds in Christian
lands, this mandate form the lips of
the Omnipotent Creator, promulgated
way back in the cycles of time
When yonder spheres sublime
Pea1ed their first notes to sound the
march of time"
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all. 1t was spoken by the l AM, and
We are told by the WORD, made man
ifest in the flesh, that Heaven and
earth shall pass away, but my word
shall lever pass away
But, "lest We forget" as some ap
parently have forgotten, we search
the pages of sacred writ through all
the annals of the ages of the Patri-
archs, the Judges and the Kings, and
find no record of any time or place
where the woman was assigned any
part in the scheme of government.
All through the long period of bibli-
cal history it was a quasi theocracy.
God, speaking through his prophets,
outlined the governmental affairs of
the people. True, many times the peo-
pie went contrary to Jehovah's plans,
but even when they thwarted Gods
rules they did not bring the woman
into the systems of government.
Then, passing on until we come to
the new dispensation, when more
light is thrown upon the world as to
the will of God towards the creatures
he had made. In the light of this new
revelation do we find any change in
the position the woman is to occupy
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