The Washington times., 1919-02-09
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bleV that they naked; ana they ScDed tg leaves
together and made themselves aprons.
And they heard the TOiCe OF the Lord GOD WaltH1g
in the garden in the cool of the day; and Adam and his
wife hid themselves from the presence OF the LORD Goa
amongst the trees of the garden. Genesis HE'S
Life according the Bible, began the for men
and women. They lived in innocence not ashamed
And when the Serpent more subtle than any beast of
the field which the Lord had made persuaded the woman
and through her the forbidden fruit they were
alike held responsible made to suffer for the sin and driven
out They hid themselves together from the presence of
the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden
That is how it in the beginning but man has in
vented for himself better arrangement for such matters
Today when the fault is committed woman hides her
self and is driven out Man walks proudly erect No more
hiding for HIM He has arranged most conveniently to
put all the blame upon the
For many thousands of years and women have
gone along under this arrangement convenient for
bitterly hard and unjust for women
To know how differently men and have lived
and borne their shares of responsibility get from the library
Lecys History of European Morals 1t is history Of
injustice and brutality.
And conditions have not changed. Woman is the vic
time Of injustice today and the socaed civilization that
keeps her In ignorance and in innocence throughout her
youth throws her out into the gutter like the body of
dead cat she falls victim to the very ignorance and in
nocence that have been seduously cultivated.
Once only in the worlds history has the worlds great
est injustice been nobly and adequately rebuked.
A group of men, prepared to stone a woman, were
gathered Your mind easily sees her. covering in terror
hopeless in crowd of old and young holding
in their hands ready first kill her with blows from the
stones and then her body with stones a
warning to wicked women Like thousands of others
this would been stoned to death the only vic
tim of crime committed by TWO and in which she
not the guilty.
But on this occasion the program not carried out
to the end There stood MAN with in His hand
and no hatred in His The miserable hunted woman
looked instant in His face filed with Divine pity and
threw herself at His feet for protection from the with
their stones.
And this is the story and the conversation as you
read it:
They say unto him, AIaSter. this wornan Irus
taken in adultery, in the Very act
'Now Moses, in the lam commanded u.s. that
such should be stoned; but Vhat SayeSt thou
This they Said tempting him, that they might
have to accuse him. But Jesus stopped dOwn and NTH
HIS finger wrote on the ground, though he heard
them not.
so when they continued asking him. he lifted
up Himself and said unto thenl He that is TvthOut
sin among you, let him first cast stone at her.
And again he stopped dorm and wrote the
ground.
"And they whch heard it, being conricted by
their own conscience WeHt out one by one beginning
at the least EVEN unto the last; and Jesus left
Alone and the lvomau standing in the midst.
''When Jesus had lifted up Himself, and
none but the 1DOHa He said unto her, Woman Where
are those thine accuserS: Hath no man condemned
thee?
She said No man, Lord And Jesus said unto
her, Neither do condemn thee; go, and sin more
St John VII :4-Il.
The with their stones and their victim ready had
planned trap Christ whose destruction they sought
They believed that He would denounce the brutality of the
law and put Himself in their power But He did He
trapped them and shamed them when instead of denounC
ing the brutality that would have stoned the woman to
death He said He that is without sin among you let
him cast a stone at her
Everybody knows that story Every preacher quotes
it once year Everybody knows that is responsible
VIC A.
MING for the crime that destroys the forever
and harms the not at all
The world however breaches Christianity and does
not practice it
The picture this page, the with all her
of happiness gone forever every path closed her.
all hope shut out, is today as it