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About Christian herald. (Portland ;) 1882-18?? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 14, 1883)
»• CHRISTIAN HEEALD. 3 - <1 ■ — ■* ■ works and glorify their Father in heaven. 2. Numbers who comte among us will be members of the One Body " ■“ brrt'Who have tion with sister churches in the East ami have come here to find homes both ofatemporal andaspirit- ual nature. To these we also owe a debt. We should give them a hearty welcome, and be able to take them by the hand and make them feel that they are one of us and that we are interested in their soul’s sal vation. But in order to do this .. -m ioeo oo fully wo mu s t - l ot t h em se c., that we aro in earnest about the work ourselves. We must make our churches living examples of the love and spirituality taught us in the life Christ and the Apostles Preachors and church officers should see that strange brethren and sis ters find a congenial and vWlcome home in their congregations. By keeping these thoughts before us -ire wiH-finH rW ef work. ,. _ »».„,, . , . .. the Lord' will bless us ■ in doing it. ------- ■ - ---- BEECHER AGAINST PAUL. On Thursday evening, Aug. 30, Henry Ward Beecher was called to Portland to deliver a lecture in the Mechanics’ Pavilion under the aus pices of the “ Oregon State Woman Suffrage Association.” And now as Mr. Beecher is to be the champion of the Woman Suffagists who hold that women should be placed on an equality with men in every respect, the first thing for him to do is to get the apostle Paul out of the way. This is the more necessary iiV view of the fact that many good people, some women as well as men, have learned to love Paul, (although he was “ An Old Bachelor !”) and to respect his statement in reference to this woman’s rights question. As to how effectually the lecturer suc ceeded in his undertaking in the estimation of those specially inter ested, may best be seen from the following paragraph from the organ of the suffrage movement, the editor . herself a woman. It says : Mr. Beecher’s remarks on the very common misconception of St. Paul’s commands in reference to woman ought to be read by every person ‘who is troubled about the Pauline declarations. Interpreta tions similar to his have often been given by scholars and students who have read the Bible intelligently, but we fail to remember another writer or speaker who has so con cisely stated tho historical facts and so effectually cleared away the mists around St. Paul s commands. The two salient points of Mr. Beecher’s lecture Which we have Jewish women in that church/ There ing of the Bible and primitive mentioned will be of value to the were plenty of Jews there, Acts 18, Christianity. So far as its political Woman Suffrage movement in the and at orte time there were Jewish feature is concerned we care but next few months, and every woman in (jrUgdh Owes him a debt of grat- females in the church ; Priscilla for little about it ; for we regard “pol- (j &iwd ah(l -t wfchf nl-■ -Livnmpln words which he so eloquently utter 4. Instead of this command be Christian taken Trom every con ed last Thursday evening. ing given to the Greeks only, it was ceivable point of view. Hence we IndeedTN o wletus tu rn over to in fact a Jewish ordinance Mid the have learned to let modem politica this profound exegesis of Paul’s fundamental principle it contained severely alone, and seek the glory language which is so valuable to had been in force from the very that comes from the cross of Christ. the Woman Suffrage movement and beginning. Hence Paul adds in the We have set out to contend for the /»»»Lx»/#» urlìi* xi l I g C- sçë~ whafr - there - i«? in it; While-- vc i w: “ As al s o sa i speaking of the condition of women 5. If the law wTas enacted for the trine comes in direct antagonism to in Greece at the time the Apostle government of the Greeks alone, is the positive declarations of the Bi wrote he says : it still binding on them ? If not, ble, we are compelled to take our And this throws great light on when and where was it repealed ? stand against it. We are aware passages oT Scripture that are sim If it is, then by what authority that many good people, some or ple enough in the light of this his torical fact, and which have greatly does M r. Beecher and his good sis whom are brethren, believe in the perplexed all the interpreters of ters he represents contend foriequal doctrine of Woman Suffrage, and for these we have the profoundest sacred writ. Paul says : “ I suffer rights ?* Arc they all Jews ? not a woman to teach in your tern - respect. But while they have a As to Timothy we reply, ^les. Let your women keep silence.” 1. He was no more a Greek right to their opinion, we feel sorry ^ell, to whom did he say these thing» ? To the Corinthian*, in his bishop in a Greek city than was for them, not because they accept all their leaders teach, but because epistle to‘Timothy—Corinth, pre-» Henry Ward Beecher. eminently a Grecian city ; Timothy, 2. The instructions given to of the company they are compelled a preek bishop of the Greek city Timothy in reference to women to keep. r e genival. In-the first chapter. ------------~_______ one word or limitation to womans - — ’ ’ how to ■ > Selections and Comments. Timothy right by the Hebrews. And to the Paul * was telling honor of that nation be it said that manage certain parties who desired A G ood S uggestion —The fol from the earliest of their recorded to be “ teachers of the law,” etc history woman has stood with more Were these Greeks ? Then in the lowing has been going the rounds freedom and more honor than in of our papers, and we commend it any other. Oriental nation. And a second chapter comes the command to the careful consideration of our woman could do anything that God to the women. made her able to do. She could be 3. This is further evident from sprinkling friends : A telegram in the Globe-Demo a ruler, a judge, or a prophet. What the reason Paul assigns for their crat of Monday last, gave the in ever she had a charter to doj in her learning in silence. He says, “ For formation that one hundred Metho own creation, that she was free to Adam was first formed, then Eve. ” dists are to be immersed next Sun do. The whole spirit of the old day at Decatur, Illinois. It would Is not this as applicable to the Jew Hebrew economy had in it the ele be a good time, we think, for our ment of honor unto all women. In as to the Greek ? Methodist brethren to discourse on Greece it was the other way ; wo 4. Timothy was not strictly a the “ indecency of immersion.”— man was low, base, ignorant, vulgar. St. Paul never would have given Greek, for his mother was a Jewess Central Baptist. his command to the Hebrew women. and from a child he had been I nfant B aptism M ust G o .—The Let us briefly note the errors in taught the Holy Scriptures which were able to make him wise con New York Independent gives us this paragraph. the following figures relative to the 1. Paul said nothing about wo cerning all these matters. Now in view of all these facts present condition of the Presbyter men teaching in the “ temples.’ The Christians had no temples in and more that might lie mentioned ian Church in the United States : After a long and gradual ap those days, and were not often per to the same effect, what does Mr proach the membership of the assertions mitted to use those belonging to Beecher’s disjointed Presbyterian Church in the United the Jews. Paul was taking of the amount to ? It is simply Beecher States has at last turned the figure church, and the church was the as versus the apostle Paul. Yet with of six hundred thousand, the exact semblage of the saints whether in the organ of the Woman Suffragists number by the summing just made the temple, in a private house or in this is “clearing away the mist out after the last corrections being from Pauls language,’’ and will 600,725. There has been a small the open air. 2. His instructions regarding the make them many votes ! It would gain for years, the gain of 1878 being 10,181; of 1879, 7,631; of women was not confined to the be curious to know’just how many 1880, 4,185; of 1881, 2,730; of Grecian converts in the city of Cor thinking people who read their 1882, 10.727, and of 1883, 8,597. inth, for Paul says, ’* Let your wo Bibles were and will be converted The number added on examination men keep silence in the churches by this learned disquisition on last year was 12,132, a lower num showing that his command was Paul ! We arc almost tempted to ber than in any jPar since 1878. There has been an increase of 73 general, and included both Greeks offer a premium to all such among ministers and 116 churches. The and Jews alike. This is further our readers.who w ill send us their number of infant baptisms is 17,- evident from the 3G verse, “What!” names. 728, a decrease of 1,298, and a Now in conclusion we wish to smaller number than for at least says the Apostle, " Cam«* the word of God out from you ? or came in state in all seriousness that right six years previously, except 1881. here we tile our strongest objection During the last seven years report unto you only ? ed there has been a steady increase 3. Paul says Jet your women— to the Woman Suffrage movement. in the benevolent contributions, evidently all of then—keep silence. It is utter disregard on the part of which have risen from $8,295,361 Can it be shown that there were no many of their leaders, of the teach- to $9,661,463. We notice for the r •11111 ” cU/cX/CU A. Cvl V X1 Celivi IlVIlW ▼▼ V®* - ... ...................... -inr-rm..... . _ w>