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Show ANGELS' SEX DISPUTE. Regarding the discussion which has been taking place in New Tork upon, the sex of angels. Archdeacon Sinclair, one of London's most prominent Episcopalians, Epis-copalians, had no hesitation in declaring declar-ing he was not quite one with Dr. Peters, Pet-ers, who said there Is no scriptural authority au-thority for assuming angels to be fe- ( male. "There is no formulated church doctrine doc-trine on the subject of angels," he said. "All opinions about them are founded on what is said in the Old and New Testaments. In the bible they ate always al-ways represented as men, or, at any : rate, with the appearance of youth. The idea would be, no doubt, that they ; have no sex at all. See, for example, I Christ's words 'in the kingdom ot , heaven they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are as angels. At the period of both the Old and New Testaments women were considered I greatly inferior to men, and the idea. of angels being in the form of females I would have been quite impossible. "The church always has founded its traditions on these views. The idea of female angels came In through the influence in-fluence of the renaissance in reviving the conceptions of the heathen goddes- e'" : ' |