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CHîtÎSTIAlSr HERALD. , ♦ suffragists of the United States! It is also true that Paul was an in- HTAi Aiid ofaly ‘spoke- and splfed than wrote as the Spirit guided him; hut of course as the Spirit of God feould not “ comprehend the political situation in the United StatfeS,” WC are to accept the twaddle of Henry Ward Beecher ! The difference between us and our good Sister is simply.this, ; We believe the teaching of the Bible ’ But what are they goin£ to do about it ? If a few supercilious editors “^n“”tfiis~ coast, -with“mdre selfishness than philanthropy, who presume to be the religious and political teachers and leaders of the people, allow themselves to be utterally defeated and routed by “ Eastern talent,” they have no one to blame except the weakness of the cause they advocate coupled with thtfir owii ignorance. If they are not prepared.. for, / reference to woman’s position in then they had better make public the church and in the world, while announcement to that effect. But she does not; When the Bible it is a consolation to know that we says,“ Let your women keep’silence”ft*e-Writing for the intelligent in the churches,” we believe and people of this coast, and not for accept it; she does not. The Bible "tlliSTiass of journalists, and that says that wives must be in subjec these people have long since learned tion to their own husbands and not to estimate what they read by its usurp authority over the man; she real merits, and tiot by State lines. Our says, not so" Lord, they must have equal rights. The Bible says, Adam is that we “ live wholly in the dead was first formed, then Eve, and past.” We have set out to live in therefore women should learn lii the Spirit of the Christianity of sileTlce ; she would have us believe Christ and the apostles. Will our that Eve was formed first, and neighbor tell us where that is to be therefore, women must speak. God found?” I& it Tn” the whimsical said to the woman in the begin- dogmatisms of Hefiry Ward. Beech ning, “ Thy desire Shall be to thy Of, of in the living, spiritual church F— h u sb a nd, r thee she says this is a mistake, the hands of inspired men of God ? the man is not to rule over her. He who wishes to find and enjoy JUristianity, must not only The Bible téadies that thè family such Christianity, I has had a head from the creation of live in the past, blit must go all the the first pair and must continue to way back to Jerusalem. While we have one for all time, and that man rejoice in the rapid strides the - was and is thait head : she teaches world has made in the various in theory that the family is to have a venues oF progress, we ’rememb r no head at all, or else weman is to that Christianity is the same in all be that head. Hence we repeat ages. The trouble with our Sister is, thdt it is the religious aspect of the movement to which we most having failed to learn the alphabet seriously object; and political move- of New Testament Christianity, she | ments that are not founded on is out at sea without “ rudder, these fundamental and eternal chart or compass.” ------------ •—•—•------------ principles of the Bible are unworthy * of an existence. This is the reason QUERIES AND ANSWERS. we can not advocate “ modern Dear Bro. Floyd: politics.” We are asked if we ever 1. Whom was Christ addressing read Bash ford’s Commentary on in Matthew 26 : 26, Mark 14: 22, “ The Bible for Woman Suffrage. and Luke 22 : 19 ? We venture we have read more 2. Also whom was Paul address S commentaries than our reviewer ing in Heb. 10 : 25, and 1 Cor. 11 : ever saw, and this is another reason 24 to 29 inclusive ? why we can not accept her theory. 3. Were these remarks addressed Our contemporary thinks it is to any except the apostles or dis B “ not pleasant to have a man come ciples ? from some Eastern State and use Yours fraternally, his ballot to perpetuate the dis J. H. M oore . franchisement of all women because Eugene, Or. ANSWER. many of them dn nni l ;« 1. His chosen apostles, who alone creed.” Well, the New Northwest is not alone in its lamentations. ate the last passover with their There are other papers that as Lord that night. 2. The Hebrew brethren, and the justly complain - sectarianism crushed to death by a disciples who constituted the church Eastern State, of Christ at Corinth ; and through * i* 1 1 11s ff « G ood A dvice .—The Christian them all Christians, 3. No. Nobody on earth has Evangelist has been giving some good advice to it s- r e ader s concern- — Jesus to partake of the emblems of ing the obligation of churches and His body and blood except His dis preachers to each other. Read the ciples, or true Christians; and the following from a recent eflitoral: The dishonest practices that we custom prevailing in some of our churches to state that this is the have thus far described are those of “Lord’s table ” and then invite all individuals, btit we must not pass over some that are of an official who1 wish to partake, whether in character. In too many instances Christ or out of Hiu , is both as in- preachers have fallen under a cloud "consistenFand sinful, as”td'state” to for not meeting ttielFTrtdigiitMHiMi-^ the avowed infidel, that this j8 the who have failed because churches “ Lord’s baptism,” and then en them. A preacher of reputation courage him to be baptised. wrote us the other day: “ I will have to make a change ; my salary .^Selections and Comments. is $800, only enough for me to. live upon, and the congregation are sev eral hundred dollars dehind.” It is “ How IT W orks .— Keadthis; Kalama has a big, robust “man” probable that when he does change ' named Cole, who recently indulged there will be a balance left unpaid. in practical demonstrations of his There is not hardly a preacher but superiorty to womankind by beat- what has hundreds of dollars owing kTrT>n)iS T"WHe7. shMiing furniture, tohim- which,-he sadly needs, anil breaking crockery, ruining their forbears to collect by law on ac cooking stove, and driving his fam- count of the reproach to the cause MIy out of doors, where his wife has which would thereby arise. It is since had to cook. The Legislature mean for a church to thus take ad of Washington, sooi^Jo meet, should vantage of the forbeamace of a pub provide the -whipping-post for this lic servant. We hold that the brute and his \\k.^Ncw Nvrdtwe&C- preacher ought to be held to- as rigid an account as any other man We venture that that wife was in the matter of debt paying, but a strong advocate of Woman Suf- we hold, upon the other hand, that . -H-has t hfi s ame right s UuxiRftcLhis debts as any other man. Church A S ignal C hange . -7 —An ex- members can be dishonest collec tively as well as individually. How change gives us this fact: can an elder or deacon pride him The Boston Watchman ^states self on his personal integrity, be that the building erected in that cause he meets his private obliga city as a memorial of Tom Pain and tions, when he suffers public coven as a propaganda of infidelity, is now ants to be broken and the laborer named Appleton Chapel, and has go without his reward £_ If we.con been opened for Christian worship demn the private member who in connection with the work 60 long would wrong his hired servant out carried, on at the Warren street of his living, what shall we say of a chapel. congregation, pledged to righteous And so it will ever be; the me ness, which does the same thing ? morial buildings and daring dogmas Such congregations are covenant of infidelity will sooner or later breakers, and, every elder, deacon and private member who consents give way to the truth of Christian to the arrangement is guilty of the ity and the worship of the living same wrong. Let this evil be put God. The waves of infidelity may out of the camp of Israel. Let con break over Christendom for a time, gregations be honest, and then let but the receding tide will leave the them insist rigidly on honesty on the part of every member. unshaken mountains ofJDhristianity unmoles ted. E nraged C atholics The New York Observer gives us this item : The American Bap- S uicidal . It was to be expected that the tist-Flag, of St Louw*rin an article Papists would be stirred to a high pitch of excitement over the honors on Methodism says; Methodism is not Christianity. paid to the memory of Martin Yet it is freely admittied that many Luther, in connection with the Methodists are children of God. 400th anniversary of his birth. Bub That Methodism is not Christianity they are almost exceeding expecta will be readily admitted when we tion. A London paper says : “ The Romish clerical papers in consider the fact that Christianity existed with all of its ordinances Germany, and the authorities at and saving power for' seventeen the Vatican, are metaphorically hundred years before Methodism ‘ gnashing their teeth ’ because of the enthusiasm excited throughout was born. This is a good point; but is this Protestantdom by the approaching fourth centenary of Luther’s birth. not equally true of Baptistism ? The Roman Catholic journals keep Wherein thou judgest another, sneering at what ihey call the ‘ de- ification ’ of Luther, and are pub- thou condemest thyself,
