The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-07-28

osition. One Thousand years before
the birth of Christ the ancient Per-
SLAMS were governed by some of the
purest of moral precepts that ever
Influenced the conduct of mankind.
Stealing and lying, were condemned
by all the ancient Egyptians, Greeks
and Romans. The behavior of the
Chinese ancient and modern compare
very favorably with the Christian
World.
When we consider the wholesale
murders, the corruption of Christian
governments, the venality of govern
ment officials, the immortality, on
every hand lying, cheating and
stealing, there remains very little of
which we can justly boast.
But let us examine some of the
commands from that Book of books,
the Bible. aye shall kindle no fire
throughout your habitations on the
Sabbath day" Eek. xxxv, 81. The
above would be genuine test of re-
ligious faith in the rigorous Mime
sofa winters.
If there is anything more calculat-
ed to destroy the progress of the
world it is the following commands
by Paul. "Let your women keep 81
lent in the churches; if they will
learn anything, let them ask their
husbands at home" Il Cor. xiv, "a,
35). "Let the woman learn in 81
lence with all subsection. But I
suffer not woman to teach, nor
usurp authority over the man, but to
be in silence"' Il Tim. ii II, 12).
l want to say right here, that my
implicit faith is in women to both
humanize and civilize this world. In
all these thousand of years of mis-
ruled governments she has suffered
in silence. Women's blood has been
poured out in countless man-made
wars of determinations. In every
war women's hearts have bled
through the listless, indiscriminate,
inhumane slaughter of fathers, hus-
bands and brothers. Through count
less ages of slavery mothers have
endured the pangs of having their
babes torn from their breast to sat-
isfy avarice, brutality and lust. And
even now in this very age when we
see the millions of little children
toiling from early dawn until dark in
factories, shops and mines we must
turn to those whose hands that rock
the cradles and ask them, beg and
implore them to rule and save the
world, from the misgovernment,
cruelty and barbarism of man.
Let us be frank, let us have COM
mon sense, let US use our brain and
reason. Of all the degrading abom-
nations, most immoral institutions in
the world, slavery is the very nadir.
And yet very catechism of slavery
in all it's worst forms can be based
upon the precepts of the Bible.
Both thy bondmen and thy bond
maids, which thou shalt have, shall
be of the heather that are round
about you; of them shall We buy
bondmen and bondmaids. Moreover,
IF the children of the strangers that
do sojourn among you; of them shall
We buy, and of their families that
are with you, which they begat in
your land; and they shall be your
possession. And We shall take them
as an inheritance for your children
after you. to inherit them for a pos
session: they shall be your bondmen
forever" (Lev. XIV, 44-46). eff thou
buy Hebrew servant, six years he
shall serve: and in the seventh he
shall go out free for nothing. If he
came in by himself, he shall go out
by himself: if he were married, then
, his wife shall go out with him. If
his master have given him a wife,
and she have borne him sons or
daughters, the wife and her children
shall be her masters and he shall 90
, out by himself" "And if the serv-
ant shall plainly say, I love my mas
ter, my wife, and my children; !
will not 60 out free, then his master
shall bring him unto the door, or
unto the door-post; and his master
shall bore his ear through with an
anvil; and he shall serve him forever
(Ex. xxi, 2-6).
= Christ came not to destroy the old
, law, but to fulfill it; we will examine
the New Testamen;. "Let as many
servants as are under the yoke count
their master worthy of all honor" Il
| Tim. vi. ~. "Exhort servants to be
, obedient unto their masters" Titus
ii. 81. Servants, be obedient to
l them that are your masters accord
ing to the flesh. with fear and trem.
5 bling" (Eph. vi, s.. "Servants, be
subject to your masters with all
fear: not only to the good and gen.
tie, but also to the forward" Il Pet
4 ii. 18). Servants, slaves, are never
f advised to throw off the cruel yoke
/ of bondage and oppression. The poor
toil-worn slaves with Scared ant
. bleeding back upon Bonded knees
cheeks wet with tears and hands out.
/ stretched, has no consolation in
4 "Servants, obey your masters" p.
"The people that are lynched
burned. slaughtered and oppressed
|, find nothinp Tn Sootho their h1oodino
: troubled hearts in "Be subject to the
j powers that be-" Why should kings
q Continued on page ~