Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1922-07-29

FIYWA&N the Bible teaches
that wives should
be In subsection to their husbands, II
also teaches that Christians should
each be subject to one another. In
some realms the Bible rates man as
superior To woman When the ques.
ton arises as to who should say the
deciding word on a debated subject In
the church II does not leave us at sea.
Either man or woman must be given
the obligation, aud the Bible gives II
to the man. In the Christian program
woman must not teach or usurp aii-
thority over the man. There Is ever
here the obligation placed upon the
man Ia be the bearer Of the brunt Of
the battle and 10 protect the woman.
But now, has woman a supremacy
In some other realmsi Has she.
through the exercise of meek and
quiet spirit. power far mightier than
II she were TO usurp authority over
the man? Surely. Thus II is that
woman Is o.. many pages Of the Bible
mentioned with emphasis
Consider the narrative In the First
Book Of Kings concerning the dead
child whom Elijah restored to life as
God enabled him. Mention is made
there that the child's mother was
widow. And our Lord Jesus. when
mentioning this incident, speaks of
many Widows But he never speaks
of many widowers.
The account IN the Second Book of
Kings about the Summarizes son Is
written with the same notable en-
phaSls upon the woman. for II reads
that he, having fallen sick In the field.
his father had him carried to his
mother. This child died. Elisha
raised him to life; and forthwith he
calls TO the child's mother, of whom II
is stated that she took up her son and
went out"
Consider our Lord Jesus. though he
addresses his mother rs woman"
when she must more deeply learn OF
His Deity. yet when on the cross He
commends her to John as mother"
All. yes. if you search your Bible
through you will see that there Is no
disparaging of one sex In contrast
with the other. But sin Is here And
while one sinned earlier than the 9th.
er, both were sinners. As a cOnse.
quence all have sinned. hence both
women and me. must find their stand
ing In relation to this fact.
And who could find any place for
contending for his own superiority
here? Here, evidently the woman
would contend that the superiority Is
applicable 10 the man, saying that she
Is the chief OF sinners while the man
would contend that such rank should
be accorded 10 the woman insisting
that he is the chief of sinners.
All Of which only serves To more
clearly disclose the fact that much de-
bate and contention may attend re-
forms. which will utterly die out when
we declare for regeneration. Indeed.
questions which will not submit to
solution through reform prove To have
been already solved when those con-
siderlng them have been really born
again. Reform methods may imprison
the criminal, but they cannot subdue
the criminality in his heart. Regen.
GRAFTON makes the criminal saint.
There is refinement which appears
even in the matter of the sexes which
only the accepted grace of God can
make possible. Mothers day appeals
10 us strongly, but II Mothers day
means only bracing up of sentiment
10 the accompaniment of mailing post.
al cards and flowers. then refined
Christian mothers would scorn II. II
must be characterized by that refine
ment which the new birth imparts to
the meaning Of the word mother; then
the Christian mother will be strength.
ened In the faith, heartened In prayer
and paciiied In the conflict because Of
the day. -
Sin brought to humanity disagree
ment and discord. and II has sadly
prevailed even among the sexes. Grace
is the one and only cure for both man
and woman. When grace Is accepted
there follows In It's train series Of
ennobling and refining influences
which assures between man and wOm-
an and between parcats and children
and between employers and servants
Of either sex a custom of doing good
unto ALI.
But II all rests upon Christian faith
rather than upon cultured courtesy.
Through faith women received their
dead raised TO life again." And IL Is
through faith that men become eager
To declare: Help those women which
labored with me in the Gospel"