Putnam patriot., 1915-01-15
SUFFRAGE NOTES
Woman Suffrage and thf Bible'
Address by Rev. J. R. siabkfn

l6ufrage and EC E aiways ready U
 stand for what R2 Believes is right. H' generously gave hlSzervices when th'
 league invited him b present hl. view
 at a public meeting. Elg stirring tsll
 was an inspiration Lo blk nany audi
 tors.
 The nseeting was held ln Odd Eel
 lows .hall fJidsy evening Jan. s
 Mrs. W. ]. EBileti, presldea. of the league, being chaifman Of the eNeB ng,
 Before and after Mir slnbberts sd dress MT. Trevithie sang two ples4ing solos, accom- panied at the piano ts Miss Diane BreauIt.
 Mr stubbeft developed his theme Woman Suffrage and the Bible, with eI6q9enee and logic, speaking of the equality of somen from lhe Biblical point of view. he historical point of view, and the Eoint of view gf com. mon sense. The address follows
 l cal you sfdanda tonight aol 5 want to make the ms5take that oue speaker made. Who sald. eI call yoH friends. won | cal you ladies and
 gentlemen because ku0m you al 100 well for that l simply Ibink if call you "ffieuds Il wilI do.
 We come tonight 10 eOnsi ter a sGb- ieet that is moi new. Lis eery old. IL ls a God given subject. lt pertains to the better class of society, and what we are willing 10 do for them 1 think in all nations the acknowledg- ment is made that woman Is the puff est and most religious Of the human family l would like to know the na tiop gf tbe individual who prescribes the duties oi a woman.
 I make these few remarks before enter upon the subject because few years ago, the Mr, Johnson,' as he is called in England, was asked some thing about tbe education of women. It was beginning bo De meted then in England, and 'Joiln1on. in his gruff way, said what we would expect from him, that the best education that a woman could get was to make q good dinner in the kitchen, for probably no man in England ever liked to eat so well Rs Johnson. He couldn't see over the great wall of custom, and ] do l not know thss enything is of greater hindrance to pToggegs than custom, but who made the la~ 10 say that woman should not vote alonaslde Of a man2 Do you krow any place that it was ever made ot any nation that ever made 1t, where dIa Il Come ffomq It. paaie from the bosom of despotism, and no man or woman wants to live in a state of despotism.
 Now, let us see, as we go along my subject, in my mind, whether those principles maintained by the safirn- gists are right from Biblical and his- torical and common sense viewpoint. Now, God made man and put him in the Garden, and he said, alt is not well for man to be alone,o and if you run down through the history of the human family, you find that Is true. Where men separate themselves from society and segregate, they generally, whatever their intentions are, they generally become corrupt Cage them about with all the good influences you may, yet little by little corruption creeps in, so the Lord knew 1t when lie said, "lt is not well for man 10 be alone. Then He made a help.meet, and l think it has been great stumb- ling block to many. lelp.meet, a helper Made a helper for him, that is what the word means, helper, and , woman becomes I helper for man, a helper in every thing but one thing Christ said, Judge ye eyourselves what is right, so man and woman went along together quietly.
 don't know how many centuries
 before they were expelled from lhe
 Garden, but you femember how that came about-Evets temptation, They put 1t all upon the eye and upon the appetite-W hen she saw the fruit that was good to look at and that was good
 10 taste and they stop therc. Hence
 they say lthat Eyes eye became the eye for women Of all ages, If you read
 your Bibles arlght, you will find thai
 she saw those two things but she saw
 something vastly more, vastly more | important. She saw il was there tC make one wise, to understand goot and evil. So Eve becomes the frs philosopher in the world, before Adam She wanted to look into things to dis cover the principles, to see whether 0 | not they are good and they are evil. When corruption entered in, woman loses her place of equality. Sin pulled her down. As men became corrupt they robbed woman of her true inheri tance of equality with themselves, ant you will find that that is in accord snce, too, with the rules of Nature Corrupt heart, corrupt fife does no seek to have pure one near him anc so they go on and tTample her down Now, If you want 10 believe like them cannot do it. God made woman or equality with man; that is Gods DO sition, and man never was commis stoned 10 give her another place in so
 ciety. God called women. He receiv'
 ed their songs.