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Christianity Applied to Some of our Social and Economic Problems. The Coming WonSan. A SERMON BY REV. C. C. BROWN, D.D. "Yea,.I beseech thee also, true yokefellow, help tbese women, for they labored witb me in the gospel."-Pan,. Mr: 3. "Labored with me in the gospel-!" What do yon suppose the women did who labored in the gospel ? They had DO mission societies, no sewing circles, BO orphan homes, cot even any chris? tian homes to visit. What did they do as they labored .'? I am inclined to believe they did just what Paul did, and we can define their work by as? certaining his. ?X am aware of the fact that I shall this night fly in the face of some of Oar Southern customs and institutions.; feat because they are ?'Southern, it does sot follow of necessity that they are cor? rect.; nor does it follow that because one thing is good, another cannot be bet? ter. The whole world is whirling along the ringing .grooves of progress, and there is DO reason why we shoold decline to-keep-step with the multitude, weo ?f -it. be done at the cost of a 'no? tion that has been peouliarly ours, and clung to principally because we have come 4o ^believe we .have a sort of monopoly io that direction. ?Old ideas and practices are not made correct always by being old. There is a good church not far away whioh has had but two pastors io a hundred years, and has had preaching OD the first and third Sun? di y-during all that time. -Recently when a oew pastor came, it was found necessary to change the preaching day. Some objected, OD the groor ! that they did not wish to violate the usage made . sacred by a hundreds years of time. .New measures are generally opposed. Some imagine that opposition indicates ike wisdom of caution. Sometimes it does.; but sometimes it indicates dead? ness and fossilisai. Galileo was im? prisoned for introducing new ideas about the movements of the heavenly bodies.; the churches, io many in? stances, were toro to pieces over the introduction of musical instruments^ men opposed the printing press, and said it was a means of spreading heres-y^ the Chinese tore up the rails of the first railroad that was built on their sacred soil. Because men oppose a Dew measure, the thinking man need not turo aside from it as false. Bat to lay aside prejudice and preconceived notions, so as to be able to paso honest judgment on all new things that are introduced, is no easy task. My way is very apt to be the right way io my eyes, and I dislike to surrender my darling notions which I Dave nurtured so long. Still, if we are on the side of progress, we should give a trial to oew plans and methods; if they fail after testing, it is easy to let them go. It is very easy and cheap to say, "I don't believe it cao be done " This was said about the telegraph, the telepboae, the steam engine, and to say it does not require any special amount of mind power. I waot to make a confession before going farther. I am generally ia fall sympathy with ali Southern institutions and eus toms. For many years, I have been perfectly orthodox (?) concerning the matter I am to discuss to-night I bave been going with the multitude, and never before have taken time to give these questions the thought aod study they deserved I accepted the ready-made opinions of others, just as the majority of meo do ; bat DOW, wheo I come te look in :o the matter for myself, I am forced to the conclusion that all the time I have been siding with the minority, while I thought I was wi?b the majority, aod that I have held to views that were more peculiarly Southern than any tiling else. I am DOW io a happy frame of mind, and am ready to give ap everything for the troth. 1. Woman a* she used to be in the South. Let me begin with this, and many of you will agree wtth me when I say that, up to the War, woman was a genuine aristocrat io these Southern States. An aristocrat is one who does nothing because he has dothing to do. That was woman. She was a sort of little queen who ruled ber servants and had ber behests obeyed. Everything was j done for her comfort, and the head of the bouse found his pleasure in supplying her wants and satisfying her whims. Io girlhood, she was sent to the best schools, no matter what the cost. She was taught books, music ana painting, and the end in view was to prepare her j to fill the place of queen in some happy j home. She bad from one to three j servants awaiting her call, and it was] understood that ber hands were not to ; be stained with toil or hardened by j labor. Her chief duty was to issue orders; according to ber own sweet will. ! In some of our modern schools, the girls j are taught to cook aud sew ; but such brunches of study belong only to tbese j last days that are so sorely out of joint. They, too, fly in the face of our j Southern institutions, because our ? women did not once need to descend to this drudgery. That our methods were wrong, that j they could be revised, amended and improved never once occurred to us, and even a suggestion of this kind would have been set down as treason. j Bu; let us pass on now, and discuss, j 2. WohMn in thc world of ?cork in the changed circumstances of tliese j dags. Great and violent changes have come about. Revulsions have torn j, asunder the foundations of our cher- j ished institutions. The line betw* the rich and the poor has virtus I been blotted oat. Slavery of Negr has been abolished, and the wt women bave been put into th place. The queen of the parlor has co down to be the maid of the kitchen. Woman's responsibilities have b( greatly increased. In many eas she has been thrown on her o resourcess and yet, strange to tell, adequate opening has beeu made her to earn ber living. For thirty-f years, even in these circumstances, < unwritten laws have allowed worn to wear life away at the sewi machine or io the school-room ; \ beyond that, she must not go. O of our papers has lately been discussi the question whether being a she girl injures a young woman's chances : matrimony. In the. first place, w call ber a shop-girl? and why i call her a clerk, just as her broth would be called, is a woman a she girl who clerks in a store that doe. hundred thousand dollars of businc annually? No, the writer was bun ti for a word that would sting, and fon one to emt him. ?But new conditions ar? forcii themselves upon us, and we are i luctaotly falling back. The worn is coming to the front because nec< sity -is urging heron. She mast liv she must earn her bread, and yet the are not .places for them all to fill as teachers, and hence the sphere her labors is widening like the chano of t stream that is dug out by carre and pressure. Dr. Barns, of Stanto Mich., -says woman is the strenge social force of the day, and all tl doors are opening to her. Former the idea of adopting a profess^ never entered the head of any exce the most audacias giri. The girl to-day is born into conditions that d not exist for her mother. Io tl University of Michigan, last yea there were eighty-nine women wi were studying medicine. Io altno ali the great newspaper offices, wt men are serving either as printers < editors, and some of oar very brighte correspondents are women, and i stenography and typewriting she fast driving men co the wall. In tb stores, too, she k findiog a place, an men are actually coming to belies that a woman has brains enough to se two yards of cloth. So also in book-keer. ing and telegraphy she is finding an opec ing, and, like Esther, she seems t ?have come to the kiodom for such time as this. -Has she taken the bit between he teeth ? .No, but she has declared tha the world owes her the chance to raak a living without causing her to be snub bed and trodden down ander the iroi heels of caste and foolish seotimeot Th dormant forces of her nature are awak ing to the call of the hoar, and womal is being surprised at herself. Thirty five years ago, bat ene woman was em ployed in the public departments a Washington. The men seemed afraid o her, and put her in an attic chamber, fron which she sent ber copying by a messen? ger. Her presence below was not desired Today in the treasury building alone there are one thousand women doing government service, and when pains? taking and accuracy are required, a woman is always pat in to fill the place. Some are asking, 4>WelK what next? wont the women want to vote after awhile?'' Suppose they do-what of that? Man as a law-maker, seems to be a' monamental failure. We hold a legislative session this year to correct the mistakes of last. Under all the wise provisions devised by men. oar criminal army is increasing fourfold as fast as oar population. I do not think I should like to see the women going to the ballot-box at every petty election, bat I should rejoice to have her there wheo great issues are before the people. I do not believe that men will ever have sense or courage to settle the whiskey question anaided, and there are other matters belonging to the world of moral reform that only the women will ever bring into proper adjustment. Let us pass on, and discuss : 8. Woman's sphere of labor in the church. "They talk about a woman's sphere, As though it had a limit, There's not a place in earth, or heaven, There's not a task to mankiud given, There's not a blessing or a woe, There's not a whispered yes, or uo. There's not a life, or death, or birth That has a feather's weight of worth. Without a woman io it." I confess it does seem odd to be talking about such a topic, when we are all free to confess that woman is the j life aud supoort of the church, and without her the organization would almost always be a poor and limping t li tug. To say that her sphere is coterminous with man's would be to : give the truth in a sentence ; hut let us ! crush ail cavil by getting our answer from the Bible. ]. She appears in the New Testa? ment as a fellow-helper to the truth. The last chapter in the letter to thc Romans makes special mention of num? bers of worceu. Pheobe is commended as the servant or deaconess of thc church at Cenchreae, and the carly churches understood this to mean that a woman could be a church officer, for wheu a man was elected deacon, they often made his wife a deaconess. In some places the order of deaconess is still found. That the early Christian churches appointed women to the diaconate is shown in the Apostolic Constitutions, a book dating no later than the fourth century. In Bk. viii, ch, xix and xx, i we read: "Concerning a deaconess, I i Bartholomew make this constitution : 1 bishop, thou shalt lay thy hands upc her io the presence of the presbytery and of the deacons and deaconessei and shalt say : O eternal God, tr. Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, th Creator of man and of woman, wh didst replenish with the Spirit Miriai aud Deborah and Anna and Hulda! who didst not disdain that thy ocl begotten Soo should be born of woman ; who also in the tabernacle < the testimony, and in the temple, did ordain women to be keepers of th holy gates-do thou now also look dow upon this thy servant who is to b ordained to the office of deaconess, an grait ber thy Holy Spirit, and cleans ber from all filthiness of flesh an spirit, that she may worthily discharg the work which is committed to her t thy glory, and the praise of th Christ, with whom glory and adoratio be to thee and the Holy Spirit forevei Amen/' "Salute Prisca and Aquila" say Paul, "my fellow-workers in Chric Jesus," putting the woman before th man doubtless because she was th more helpful of the two. Then com Tryphaena and Tryphosa and Persis three worner who labored io the Lord He mentions also the mother of Rufus and Julia and the sister of Nereus All this shows clearly the part th women played io church work in th city of Rome. Io almost every epistl the apostle wrote, there is some sor of mention like this, and w. are drivel to the conclusion that the women did : great deal towards building up an< maintaining the churches of the aposto lie day. 2. It is clear, too, from what Luk* says io the Acts, that tbe women vote? in the churches. When Peter, in tba "upper chamber," advocated the elec tion of some one to take the place o the fallen Judas, women were present and tbe just supposition is that they voted along with the others. [Acts i 14.] Thc "multitude of the disciples' elected the seven who w?re to ministe: to the wants of tbe poor, and no reasoi is given to lead us to suppose that th< women were excluded. At any rate, ii is sure that they are nowhere forbiddet to" vote in the New Testament. 3. It seems too that women prayec in the churches. Acts i : 14, says after naming the apostles, "These al with one accord continued steadfastly ic prayer, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brethren.' lu I Cor. xi : 5, we read, "But every woman praying oe prophesying with her head unveiled dishouoreth her head/3 This simply means that when she prays in the church, her demeanor must be decorous and her behavior modest. 4. Thus far, many of us go together. She can work, vote or pray io the church; but if one suggests that that she be allowed to speak, the objection is raised that the Scriptures forbid socb a thing For macy years I held to his view also. I DOW want to give you the result of an honest investigation of the matter, and let each reach his owo conclusions. There are two Scriptures used to prove that a woman should not speak in a mixed assembly. I will take them up in order. In I Cor. xiv : 34, 35, Paul says, "Let the women keep silence in the churches ; for it is not permitted unto the women to speak; but let them be in subjection, as also saith the law. And if tbey would learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home ; for it is shameful for a woman to speak in the church.7' At first glance, this does seem to settle the question ; but a little investigation shows differently. What is the apostle discussing? Order io the church is his subject almost throughout the whole letter. It seems it had been reported to him that many things unseemly were being done at Corinth, and this epistle was intended to correct them. But I will confine myself to this one chapter. His advice is as follows : v. 23, speak so as to be understood by tbe unlearned ; v. 24. don't talk too much ; v. 28, if one cannot speak intelligibly, let him keep silent; v. 30, let one speak at a time; v. 33, God is not a God of confusion. Then ne adds, "Lst the women keep silence in the churches,'7 that is, let them keep good order. V. 35, if they want to leam anything, let them ask their hus? bands at home. I see nothing in this more than that the women, untaught j and unlettered, deeply concerned now i about this new doctrine, had fallen into j the habit of askiug questions during the ! service conducted in. the church. This j created disorder, and the Apostle, advised that iostead of asking questions ' at. the meeting it would be better to j watt until they reached their homes ? where their husbands could explain the j teaching to them. Let us now go into history of this : matter. "It is not permuted uuto them to' speak. "Thu word used is lukin which j means to talk, to speak. The Greek j word meaning to teach is didaskicn : j but it nowhere appears in this Scrip- j ture These women, were not teaching as preachers or lecturers, but were ; talking to the disturbance of the meet? ing, and I construe the whole passage to mean about r h i .> : It is not proper for j women to talk aloud and ask questions j during religious service ; su that Paul I was teaching the same doctrine that we : try to teach our children to day. But-and mark this well-Paul j writes this only to the church at Corinth. He gave no such counsel to the other churches nor had he any ? reasou to believe that these other churches would ever iee this letter, j Hence they would never know what | instructions he had imparted to thc i i Corinthians concerning this matter. But why, then, did be say this to the Corinthians ? Because the occasion required it. The historical records go to show that at Athens and at the neighboring city Coriuth, morals were of the lowest order, especially among the women. It came to pass, says Dr. Anthon, that the Greek word called "to Coriothianize" meant to play the wanton ; the very name of the city was the synonym of lewdness and immor? ality. There was scarcely a city in the world where women were so low io morals. Among them the order oi things bad been reversed. The wife was imprisoned at home, and kept as a slave, not as the companion and social equal of ber husband. In the society of what we call the demi-mondes the mao, married, or unmarried, passed his time and spent his evenings, and no law, social or civil, prohibited him. She was the educated woman, and no other woman was. She was allowed to appear in public, in the Agora, in private homes at feasts and dinings, and every woman who thus went out into the world was classed along with her. Pani had been to Corinth, and was well acquainted with all this, and there? upon thought it necessary to advise the sisters in the church there to behave in the most quiet and seemly manner, in order that no evil might attach to their conduct. Dr. Charles Anthon, in his Greek and Roman Antiquities, says in sub? stance. The word hetaira originally signified a friend or companion, but at Athens and other towns of Greece, it came to be used as the synonym of pome, courtesan. The young men, previous to marriage, spent much of their time io the company of the hetairai without its being thought blamable in any sense whatever. Even husbands did the same without drawing upon themselves the censure of public opinion, so long as they did not entire? ly neglect their legitimate wives. A wife was but little regarded, and marriage was looked upon only as the means of producing citizens for the State. The education of women was entirely neglected ; they were re? garded as inferior beings, less endowed by nature, and incapable of taking any part in public affairs and of sympathizing with their husbands. Intellectually they were not fit to be agreeable companions to their hus? bands, who consequently sought else? where what they did not find at home. A woman had no right to proceed agaiost her husband. The State tole? rated the hetairai. They were gene? rally not mere oastways, but acted as cithara and flute-players and as dancers, and were frequently employed to add to the splender of family sacrifices and to enliven and heighten the pleasure of feasts and dinings. They were the most accomplished women in Greece, and paid much attention to the cultivation of their minds. It was because of their intel? lectual superiority that men preferred their company and conversation. The town most notorious in Greece for the number of its lietairai, as well as for their beauty and refined manners, was Corinth. We gather from the above that the wife was required to remain at home, the hetaira, who was cultivated- and educated, went abroad in the world of society and was allowed to appear in all public places. Paul knew all this, and ! in order to aid the Christian women in ! maintaining a good name and place, he j advised them to be perfectly orderly in the churches, and not to do anything which would lead one to suppose that they belonged to the order named above. It was then perfectly natara! that bc should have advised them to keep quiet, and if one insists that the passage under discussion teaches that they must not make public addresses, theo tbat too was perfectly Datural for a city like Corinth ; but because such a law prevailed there, it does not follow that it was necessary elsewhere. We have a similar case in the teachings of our Lord. He said that since be had washed the disciples' feet, the disciples should wash each others7 feet. This statement was made without conditions, and yet the churches observe no such practice. But the reason is obvious. In those days, wheo men wore sandals, the feet were easily soiled by dirt and dust, and tojwash them or have them washed by the host was just as much an act of courtesy as it is now for one to take j your hat when you enter his house, j Changed circumstances have abrogated what was once an actuai law. Jesus ! was speaking for that day, not for this, < Paul was speaking only for that day ! when he said to these same Corinthians, j [I Cor. xvi: 20.] "Salute one another I with a holy kiss;" so also when he' advised them not to marr}', as in ch. vii: 26 27. . The other passage adduced to uphoid the law of silence on the part of women j is [Tim. ii: 8-12. "I desire there-i fore that the meu pray in every place, j lifting up holy hands, without wrath ! and disputing. In like manner that the woman adorn themselves in modest : apparel, with shamcfastness, [modesty] and sobriety ; uot with braided hair, and gold or pearls or costly raiment: bur [which become!h a woman profess- i ing godliness] through good works. Let a woman learn in quietness, with ; < all subjection. But I permit not ai: woman to teach, nor to have dominion i : Dver a mau, but to be io quietness.'' ; < This Scripture is of a piece with the ! ? tither, except that nothing is said here j ( about the church. It was written to a ! ' man whose work lay principally among j t the Greeks, lt is the custom to lay j F much emphasis on the fact that Paul j ) says he does not permit a woman to I ? teach a man, while no attention is paid to the other injunctions which surely are just as important. A man wil allow his daughter to go to church dressed io direct violation of ali thal Paul here urges ; but nothiug is said of it. If, however, the same daughtei should arise to speak io a meeting, be would be glib enough in saying some? thing about the holy Bible being de? spised and trampled upon-. "I permit not a woman to teach a man." Looking at things as they non are, and seeing the place to which Christianity has elevated woman, a mao is almost compelled to ask, "Why did the apostle make use of such an expres? sion V The answer readily presents itself in the fact that the women of that day were not fitted to teach anybody. Let us follow the injunction to its legitimate ends, and see where it will lead us. It will require us to expel tbe women from the Sunday School io many cases. Mrs. Dr. Pritchard, late ol Wilmington, had a Bible class of forty young men whom she taught every Sun? day? Mrs. Dr. Hatcher, I believe, does the same thing in Richmond. We must expel her also from oar choirs, be? cause even in singing an effort is made to impart spiritual instruction. We must recall her from the mission fields, because in many cases she is there working at the side of her husband among the men from day to day. Ii this is wrong, if we construe Paul to mean for us what he meant for others, we must hush a large part of our female workers. In all these cases, we must remember that Christianity had just come into the world. By its leverage woman had not yet been lifted up. To put ber forward too suddenly might have done barm in some cases, where she was not prepared for it, and these words of the apostle are only the warning of a wise and judi? cious teacher, and we must interpret them in such a way as to honor his wis? dom and discretion, but not so as to stultify ourselves nor him. Great and marvellous changes have taken place. Women are now being admitted to our colleges; "she writes oar books, and we read them with pleasure and profit. She edits our papers, and sometimes tries to teach us that she bas no right to teach-magnificent, though, perhaps, unconscious inconsistency. If you would keep any one in subordination, you must keep him ignorant and help? less. The whole genius of Christianity is against the perpetuation of ignorance and helplessness among women, or forcing them to immorality, as was the case in Greece, if they would obtain culture or mingle with society." [Fulton.] Now, once more-Weigh those words of Paul, "It is shameful fora woman to speak io the church." "Shameful" means injurious to character cr reputa? tion, disgraceful, dishonorable, scanda? lous, infamous. Is that a fact to-day, no matter what it once was ? If a woman were to speak in this church, would she be disgraced ? Paul said she would be at Corinth ; but would she be at Sumter ? No ; it would be a viola? tion of our* established usage; many would open their eyes in amazement for a time; but the woman who speaks in a proper way would lose neither caste nor calling among ber reasoning sisters. Therefore I insist that the conditions bave passed away which would make it shameful for a woman to speak in a church. Besides, if it is wrong for a woman to teach a man in the church, it is equally as shameful 'for her to teach bim in a public school, and we are forced to do one of two things-limit the age of boys in the public schools, or expel the female teachers. The fact is if we are driven to consistency in this matter, we shall strangle ourselves with our own cord Brethren, let us move on. There is nothing in the way; no lion confronts us, but we are trembling and in despair because we do not wish to remove an ancient landmark. An issue has come upon us that startles us, which, like all new things, seems to be revolutionary until we become accustomed to it. I san see no reasoo why wc should dis? trust the good sense of our women. Her fealty and loyalty to all our customs md institutions has kept her where she is for many years ; wheto she has man's consent take a step onwards, ber same good sense and good taste will be her safeguard aod talisman. At the bare mention of tbese things, some fly into a sort of state of demeutia, aud see woman rushing madly to the polls or ! haranguing a maddened multitude from the stump. But that is j only a vision in some distorted brain. She will always be a : lady, and the very term will prescribe ! the limits of her veutures. I am not prepared to say that it would turn our women into fools if we accord to them j the rights that men claim and exercise, j To the women I say, the issues are ' upon you ; arise to meet them. Buy op the opportunities, and enter the | apen doors; above all thicks, do not i sleep away your rights. Fifty years | igo, one morniug in June, two digni- | :aries of thc Church of England made i heir way from Windsor Palace where ? William IV had just breathed his last, o Kensington Palace, where the Prin ;ess Victoria lived. They called tor the Princess, saying they desired an audi? ence with her. The attendant replied, ?ayiug, "The Princess is iu such a ;wect sleep that she canuot be disturb? ed. " "We are come,'' said the mes? sengers, "on business of state to thc I O' ^uecn, and even her sleep must give vay to that.,? What they meant was j hat they had come to tell Victoria that j ?he was now the Queen of Eogland. ' Let the women awake ; the world is j i ?oon to give her a plaee-a place to live i and labor, a place among the workers where no dishonor will attach to her labor ; & place among tbe writers and teachers, among the merchants and men of business, and she who has been grinding her life away at the sewing machine or suffocating in scbooi rooms is to be led forth to stand in the great ranks of those who are freemen in a free world. But I am anxious not to be misun? derstood. Some one is now ready to say that I have advocated the apppoint ment and calling ol' women as preachers of the gospel, and that [ have argued that they should be put wherever man is pat, and sometimes io his place to his discomfiture. But I have not so argued. I do oot find in the Bible any proof of the fact that a woman was ever ordained to preach the gospel or administer the ordinances. I am only desirous of going as far as the Scrip tares go. Oar methods make ber out a figure-head in religious meetings, and to this I raise objections. To explain myself more fully, I will give an illustration. Some years ago, I was invited to hold a meeting with one of the Baltimore cherches. The pastor was once a Carolinian, raised, as I had been, to require the women to keep silent. On our way to the first even? ing service, be asked me if I had ever beard women talk in a meeting. I told him no. He promised that I should hear it that day. I began to feel'uneasy, and imagined that I could not preach if such an untoward thing should take place. Bat oo we went to the charch. The san had not yet set. In a little while, the people commenced to gather, and each woman brought a little basket. What could this mean ? When abont seventy-five had come, the doors to the rear of the prayer-meeting room swung open, aud lo! a supper had been spread-a church sapper at which the brethren and sisters sat and ate and talked This was all new to me. I had gone to church, but not to sapper; and yet I soon found that that sapper was the means of doing great good. It brought the members together in a social way, and opened up introduc? tions which could not easily have been brought about otherwise. After a -half hour's communion in this way, wc filed oat into the lecture room. I had been told the women were to take part, and I felt like one about to Be initiated into a secret society. After a hymn and a prayer or two, the pastor asked if any? one bad a word of testimony to render for Jesus. A woman advanced in years, arose and read some promise oat of the Scriptares concerning God's love and care, and said, ''I have re? ceived the fulfilment of that promise in my heart this week." Another sister made a statement concerning some answer to prayer about her child. A third recited a stanza from a hymn, and a dozen more repeated Scriptare verses, and one motherly old soul led in prayer. I was converted. I had looked on with a critic's eye to find out the wrong, and it would have given me pleasure to be able to show the pastor the great evil I had dis? covered, bat my eyes and ears had failed to detect the heresy that I sought, and from that day to this, I have never had the courage to open my mooth in opposition to testimony from the women, nor shall I ever teach that women must keep silence in the churches. Whiskey was Responsible. Special to The State. DARLINGTON, March 19.-R. A. Mixon was shot by W. L. Best on Sun? day afternoon and died early this morning. The shooting was done with a shot gun, the contents lodgiog in the stomach of the murdered man. The tragedy took place over twenty miles from town and uo particulars have been received, except that whiskey was mainly responsible. Best has not been apprehended, but it is reported that he intends surrendering to the sheriff. The most aggravated cases of rheumatism have been speedily and permanently cured by Salvation Oil. 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