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I 1 r V r t f r rv t t ti rt r v From an Old Bible Illustration Picturing The Departure of St. St Paul in Which the Homage of Women Is Recognized ONG before beCore feminism In any on modern sense made mode Itself felt In the tho world tho name of St. St Paul began to be 1 quoted as that of ono one opposed to chan change o In tho sItuation situation situa sItua- tion of women When rights were first so soPt Pt quoted St S1 Pauls Paul's name namo was linked again and again aga n nI I I with protEsts protects against adherence to old traditions Sometimes these protests were temperate an and argumentative c Sometimes they were bitter Thorn There are aro many signs of or a survival of this controversial point for ever every change must be measured b by tho standards of ot history an and history Inevitably leads back to the great grent guiding figures of moral precept An English suffragist In discussing tho extremes In feminine fashion and the tho Increasing love lovo of the modern woman for lavish decoration of at person says sas that If the tho apostle were active In tho the self self-centred world of toda today he would unquestionably thunder against Tho The undress which Is the full dress of ot the smartest fashion The dominance of or the wife In tho the home The woman who pleads In n public for the tho new order of ot things Tho The Independent supporting self woman Tho The mon men who havo have given Indorsement and moral support to tho the suffrage mo movement Tho The vices of cigarettes arcHes and cocktails arising from the tho present present pres pres- ent passion for emancipation Bridge whist and all forms of gambling Indulged d In b by smart women and the smart near smart near women X 0 t O Mixed discussions of or sex problems i Sensuous roun round dances ances especially tho the tango and tho the I Apostle Still Alive It might be he argued says sn's the person who makes tho the compilation tion that St St. Paul would find himself in a world made up o of everything e which should not be 10 according to his view But this would not bo be so o for the very spirit of or the apostle is reflected re reflected re- re In a great g but unobtrusive proportion of our western civilization to to which the word reactionary should not hastily bo applied who applied who hold through deep moral conviction to tho the beauty of the idea of or woman as tho the gentle tender Mother of the Race the ministering angel 1 of the home And in these tranquil persons to whom the tho cry cn of or the new feminism comes with unfamiliar dissonance St. St Paul still lives says the woman who has Ijas look d without prejudice on both sides of or the picture In his famous chapter on The Position of Women romen In the History of European Morals Leck shows show's how Christianity c. c affected the status of ot woman saying Tho The services rendered by the tho ascetics in imprinting ImprInting- on tho the minds of or men a pro profound round and enduring conviction of the tho Importance of chastity though extremely great were seriously counterbalanced by their noxious noxious noxious nox nox- ious influence upon marriage St St. Paul has been held up as the tho great opponent of or womans woman's rights but not always alwa's with Justice for it was he who said Nevertheless neither Is the man without the woman neither neither tho the woman without the man in the Lord I. 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I Cor xi 11 It Is v 1 0 Dr r Anna Shaw haw Says That Thai Times Have Changed and 7 That ihal hat the Great Preacher So Often Quoted as Against WI Women t omen W Would Not Be Bet 7 heir err t Opponent if He Were Alive Today WHAT SAINT PAUL SAID Neither was the man created for the woman but the woman for the man 4 Let Let your women keep silence in the churches If they will learn anything let them ask their husbands at home Let the women learn in silence with all su subjection bj WHAT DR ANNA SHAW SAYS That old idea of womans woman's was all very well for the patriarch days but this is a different age It is no longer necessary for women to lo keep silent in the churches or elsewhere this chapter which has been cited against the apostle because here he says sas Neither was the man created for tho the woman but the woman for the man verso 9 0 and he warns tho the woman against praying with uncovered head Other statements made b by Paul bear out the general contention contention contention con con- that he believed In tho of or woman In I. I Cor xiv 3 34 35 5 he writes Let your our women keep silence in the churches for it Is not permitted unto them to speak but the they are commanded to be under obedience as ns also saith the law And If It thc they will learn anything lot them ask their husbands at homo home for it is a shame for women to tc speak in tho the church I If Paul were alive all today toda would ho he say the tro same samo thing Could he say this with justice In tho the United States tates and Canada tho the women might have havo t a ai their husbands in vain aln concerning church matters His Tribute to Women Yet Paul Is not always alwa's against tho the women for he gives them credit for or much In the tho vcr very chapter where 1 he says that woman is created for man ho says sars also But nut the tho woman Is the glory of the theman thoman man lie Ile Is cr very much concerned over the tho woman question for forIn forin forin in his first Epistle to Timothy chap II 11 91 9 9 12 ho writes That women adorn themselves In modest apparel with shamefacedness shamefaced shamefaced- ness and sobriety not with 1 broidered hair or gold or pearls or costly array but which women professing professing- godliness godliness godli godli- ness with good works Let the tho women learn In silence with all subjection But I suffer not a woman to teach nor to usurp authority over theman tho the thoman thoman man but to be In silence Ar l i h r. r r I 1 4 S' S f V fh Cr a. a aT J a. a r g gm av fest ST 1 t- t tZ Z f P 1 a r is r G v a. a r rr r b y L j F. 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J f II r s In n the Picture Above Paul a 11 Tc Is S Seen pen Praying Pravin a with the PI Pilgrims l The e Figure of the Apostle Appears on the Left 1 t o o. o r y k 0 I j ll- ll I 01 f 1 U r I 1 1 0 The Aged Paul Teaching Teach ing Young Hermas Hernias How to Cast a Stone as Shown in Ferdinand Kellers Keller's Celebrated Georg Ebers's Homo Sum Paul Hits the Palm Tree Triumphantly a and Young Hermas Shouts Wonderful f lt Y The Old Is Not Dead I y yIn In This Picture Made to Illustrate Georg Ebers's Famous Romance Homo Sum J Ferdinand Keller Shows Paul in His Hermit Days Rescuing the Beautiful Sirona It has been suggested that Paul was so intense in his attitude attitude attitude atti atti- tude to women because tho they opposed him In his early work In Acts sill xIII 50 59 5 It is said that They stirred up th the devout and honorable women and tho the chief men of ot the tho city and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas and expelled them out of or their co coasts ts and as ns this was at tho the beginning of ot his work as preacher a a. of ot Christianity it may account for much of Pauls Paul's opposition to women in the churches Strangely enough on his second missionary Journey journe the ver very first convert whom Paul added to the faithful in Macedonia Mace Mace- donla donia was as Lydia an Asiatic at Philippi Acts 13 H 14 The personality of ot Paul Is s of tremendous Interest to every ever Christian as well as to every student of tho the development ol of Christianity lie never saw Jesus wh while e alive being converted In tho the year 36 when ho was 37 years old Paul was first a Jew bearing bc the name Saul and was born at Tarsus being sent tc Jerusalem to be educated When Paul Saw the Light According to the record In the Book Boole of Acts Paul was one of or tho the earl early persecutors of tho the first Christians and went t tc Damascus in pursuit of or some of or them There he beheld a sudden sudden sud sud- d den n light from he heaven heen en h heard the tho voice voice of Jesus speaking to him with authority He was struck to the ground blinded an and overcome and then after three days of suspense camo canto Ananias as pg tho the sp special mess messenger nger of Jesus and Saul was as baptised as Paul and proclaimed Jesus in the tho synagogues He was soon driven from Crom Damascus and retired Into the wilderness of Arabia Ara Ara- bia bia according according to Galatians I. I 17 IS Ho lie went went to Jerusalem later and after some somo years began his work of oC Preach Preaching In to tc o. o the Greeks Greel s But when all is la summed up from Crom Biblical statements really 01 very little Is known about Paul Many Ian legends have bC been D Dr r handed down concerning his life lire as an anchorite living In a cave ave and perfecting himself in the faith being tempted and saving a n beautiful woman together with much more of this legendary matter which possibly did happen to him i In Ebers's Homo llomo Sum Paul is introduced forcefully and his adventures go to make malo a great part of this tale Dr A Anna na Shaws Shaw's View Dr Anna Shaw the tho American all suffrage leader does docs not the Woman oman should keep silent in agree with Paul that a of oC the gospel church for sho has been an ordained minister She says that woman has chall changed tho conditions which caused tho the apo 30 apostles apostle's tlc's CS C'S opinions opinions' Sho She inherits her courage of or conviction from an 1 English n lIsh grandmother who refused to pa pay tithes to tho the denouncing de de- established church nn and sat In hi her doorway knitting and the tho law as year after alter year the collectors Hmo came and sold h her household goods for taxes Mrs Irs Shaw after ordInation ordination ordina ordIna- little Methodist parish on bleak Cape tion was a assigned to a Co Cod where she remained for seven cn c years yeara That old Idea of or womans woman's Was all aller er very w well eIl for Cor the patriarch da days s 's she says but this la is Is a a different ago age Instead of Its oan o Now we are arc all r recognized as human beings the tho Interest the the of or to today a views all the problems of or church world It ItIs Is amoral and economical necessity for tho the and opportunities to give to woman the same sarno rights the same samo the same responsibilities as ns man and It is no longer necessary for tor women to keep silent in the churches or elsewhere which Increasingly IncreasIng affect The Tho rapidly changing cha problems of these people of the the moral educational and Industrial life responsibility in the national national na nn- na- na times havo made women realize their Paul would ungrudgingly ungrudgingly un un- un- un life liCe Tho The best good of ot humanity even cn the greater through been advanced nd grudgingly admit has of ot the women of unity of thought and s sympathy and purpose today |