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Show MR- B E EC HE R ON THE NEW-j NEW-j ARK PRESBYTERY. Mr. Beecher's talk last evening was in relation to the question as to the divinity ol Christ. In relation to this heBttid: "AIv own impression is that vfcry little ia icttluJ, and my own im-prcbeion im-prcbeion is that vary little ever will be settled. You cannot determine this thing by intellectual processes: the prool ot the divinity of Christ isi that it has a power to eaccur the wretched, and a power that can 'succur the wretched ia necessarily divine." i Brother Shearman spoke of the low 1 Mate of civilization at the time that Cbrut was on earth. In the early Orek ages be said Socrates was about ! the only man whose record has come J down to us who, if he had lived in these days, would have kept out ol I Btate prison. I Mr. Beecher And he wouldn t, : either. Why, there isn't a church with any self-respect in this coun try Mr. Shearman (interrupting). That would take him ia'l Mr. Beecher That would keep him in; they would kick him out. Mr. Shearman All the rest, and perhaps even he, would go to state prison, I am Bure. Mr- Beecher There are some men in Btate prison a great deal better than some that are out of it. Greece was the devil's wn cauldron. If my nature was capable of indignation (here Mr. Beecher settled himself back in his chair and Biniled) 1 Bhould certainly feel indiguant when 1 aee a a pack of fools over in New Jersey debating whether Dr. See did right or wrong in permitting a woman to preach and attempt to prove him wrong by the new testament. Why (here Mr. Beecher rose to his feet and epuke with great earnestness), all through the old testament she was permitted to be what a man was. If a man wanted to propheay he did not go to the Byuagogue aud ask them to ordain him; he prophesied, and so did woman. In all the womanhood of this continent, among all the nations, there is none where woman utomla an Hahaiichod OA aha Btood in that vaunted Greek civilization. It was explicitly taught that a wife must be profoundly ignorant; Bhe was the slave of the man, and if any woman wanted to know poetry, muBio or philosophy, if any woman, in Greece wanted lo be that which we are ambitious to have our daughtera be, she had to become a prostitute. Culture, refinement and civilization were only given to woman as the price of her virtue, but the virtuouB woman must be shrouded in ignorance; ignor-ance; and wheu Paul was writing to these churches it was this civilization and this condition of women which he had in hia mind, and for woman, to epeak in those churches in the first place they were not fit, and in the second place it would have been understood universally that these teaching-women were what Phryne and Lais were. New York World. Jan. 20th. |