THE K I N G ’S BUS I NE S S 701 everything else. In the Bible, God is represented as a man and Christ as a man. The apostles were men. Women are commanded to obey their husbands. Suffragettes cannot accept the Bible literally as a divine inspira tion. We must see that it was written by men at a time when women were their chattels. The position given women in the Bible has kept them from their rights as the equals of men. The Bible needs revision. It is not up to date.” (Mrs. Fixen should try residing in a country where the Bible has not gone.) Hon. Edward Taylor, speaking before the Judiciary Committee of the House of ^Representatives in defense of woman suffrage, said, “ St. Paul’s command that women be in subjection, keep silent and learn from their husbands, has long since lost its authority.” Woman Suffragism has led some to reject the Bible doctrine that both men and women are conceived in sin, hopelessly lost until regenerated. The following utterances are samples: “ Women are better than men inherently.” “ There are certain mental qualities in women which distin guish them from men, but which are not, and connot be, transmitted to her male offspring. Virtue is one of these. The average man is not moral and does not want to be.” UA woman’s superior virtue is inherent in her con stitution. All Jesus’ teachings, when correctly understood, emphasize that character which was primarily developed in the female constitution.” Henry Wood Booth in a recent booklet, “ The Gynocrats” (Eerdmans- Sevenesma Co., Grand Rapids, 25c) says: I t is th e experience of those who have b rough t up larg e fam ilies of children of both sexes, th a t if girls are b rough t up exactly as boys are, they are very likely to he ju s t as bad as boys usually are, and if boys are brough t up w ith th e same care and exclusiveness as girls are, they will certainly be as good as th e average girl. The reason why women have been more generally moral th a n men is because, for nearly 2000 years, men have insisted th a t women and girls shall be k ep t under an en tirely different environm ent th a n men and boys and we are beginning only now to reap th e resu lts of tak ing down th e fence. Men, whatever th e ir a ttitu d e may have been tow ard o th er females, have insisted th a t th e ir brides and th e ir wives who are to be th e mothers of th e ir children, shall be k ep t pure. It h as no t been th e ir superior knowledge of evil, nor th e ir innate dislike for it, th a t has kep t them sexually more v irtuou s.” Any movement that leads to the denial of God’s Word leads to a wreckage of home life. Already stylish women are compelling their hus bands to introduce them as “ My wife, Miss So-and-so” . They refuse to assume their husband’s names. There is a full-fledged rebellion under way, not only against the headship of man in government and church but in the home. Statistics of Yale and Harvard show that women of. the better classes are not having children, the average showing less than one child to a family, and the way in which most of these children are left to grow up, needs no comment. The cultivation of the modern woman’s idea of “ my individuality” is bound to be a destroyer of the home life and a breeder of divorces. We believe the Bihle needs no revision. These conditions are marks of the apostasy. That so many of the prominent characters in the movement are, identified with Christian Science, Theosophy, New Thoughtism, Social ism, Unitarianism and rationalism, is an evidence of the course things are taking. It is also well known that the Roman church, which has such a hold upon its women, is making the most of women’s votes to put its candidates in office and get power to the church, which makes it necessary
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