River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1922-11-09

be in subsection to their husbands, IL
also teaches that Christians should
each be subject to one anotner. ih
some realms the Bible rates man as
superior to woman When the ques'
ton arises as to who should say tue
deciding word on debated SUBJECT VI
the church it does not leave us at sea-
Either man or woman must be given
the obligation, and the Bible gives IL
to the man. In the Christian program
woman must not teach or usurp a'l-
thority over the man. There is ever
here the obligation placed upon the
man to be the bearer of the brunt OF
the battle and to protect the woman.
But now, has woman supremacy
in some other realms? Has Sne,
through the exercise of meek and
quiet spirit, a power far mightier than
if she were to uSurp authority over
the man? Surely. Thus it 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
| with N rantnhtn
phasis upon the woman, for it 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 it
is stated that she took up her son and
went out"
Consider our Lord Jesus, though he
/ addresses his mother as 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 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 hi; own superiority
here? Here, evidently the woman
| would contend that the superiority is
| applicable to the man, saying that she
| is the chief Of sinners; while the man
would contend that such rank should
be accorded to 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-
sidering 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 a saint.
There is a refinement which appears
even in the matter f the sexes which
only the accepted grace of God can
make possible. Mothers day appeals
to us strongly, but If Mothers day
means only braclng up of sentiment
to the accompaniment of mailing post
al cards and flowers, then refined
Christian mothers would scorn It, 1t
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 pacified in the conflict because of
the day.
Sin brought to humanity disagree
ment and discord, and 1t 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 its train a series of
ennobling and refining influences
which assures between man and wom-
an and between parents and children
and between employers and servants
of either sex a custom of doing good
unto all"
But it all rests upon Christian faith
rather than upon cultured courtesy.
Through faith women received their
dead raised to life again." And 1t is
through faith that men become eager
to declare: Help those women which
labored with me in the Gospel"
Mind Your Own Business.