MY Dear Friend,-Before I proceed with the account of that oppression which lady has suffered in every age and country from her protector, man, permit me to supply in your consideration, some views relative to the social intercourse of the sexes. I’m nonetheless paying off payments from the move (i.e., my forwarded mail just caught up with me, so I’m paying off late fees like my checking account is a haemorhhaging haemophiliac). Darren stalked me like prey and he has stalked many ladies on the web. Let your light so shine earlier than males, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in Heaven.’ I observe him through all his precepts, and discover him giving the same directions to girl as to males, never even referring to the distinction now so strenuously insisted upon between masculine and feminine virtues: this is one of the anti-Christian ‘traditions of males’ which are taught as a substitute of the ‘commandments of God.’ Men and women had been CREATED EQUAL; they’re each ethical and accountable beings, and whatever is correct for man to do, is correct for girl.

Now that is assuming that all pastors are higher qualified to give instruction than girl. HE Teach in the way in which that he shall select.’-‘I will instruct thee and Teach thee in the way in which which thou shalt go-I will guide thee with mine eye’-the younger convert is directed to go to man, as if her had been in the place of God, and his instruction important to an advancement in the trail of righteousness. The enterprise of women and men, who are ORDAINED OF GOD to preach the unsearchable riches of Christ to a misplaced and perishing world, is to guide souls to Christ, and not to Pastors for instruction. Congregational ministers are ostentatious, in the efforts they’re making in preaching and praying to transform souls. LETTER III. THE PASTORAL LETTER OF The final Association OF CONGREGATIONAL MINISTERS OF MASSACHUSETTS. The general Association say, that ‘when girl assumes the place and tone of man as a public performer, our care and safety of her seem pointless; we put ourselves in self-defense towards her, and her character becomes unnatural.’ Here once more the unscriptural notion is held up, that there’s a distinction between the duties of women and men as moral beings; that what’s advantage in man, is vice in woman; and ladies who dare to obey the command of Jehovah, ‘Cry aloud, spare not, elevate up thy voice like a trumpet, and present my folks their transgression,’ are threatened with having the safety of the brethren withdrawn.

But we’re instructed, ‘the power of girl is in her dependence, flowing from a consciousness of that weakness which God has given her for her safety.’ If physical weakness is alluded to, I cheerfully concede the superiority; if brute power is what my brethren are claiming, I’m prepared to allow them to have all the honor they desire; however if they mean to intimate, that mental or ethical weakness belongs to girl, greater than to mean, I utterly disclaim the charge. The new Testament has been referred to, and I am keen to abide by its selections, but must enter my protest towards the false translation of some passages by the Men who did that work, and towards the perverted interpretation by the Men who undertook to jot down commentaries thereon. Our powers of thoughts have been crushed, as far as man could do it, our sense of morality has been impaired by his interpretation of our duties; but no where does God say that he made any distinction between us, as ethical and intelligent beings.

He spares the physique; but the was he has waged against her thoughts, her heart, and her soul, has been no less destructive to her as a ethical being. She must feel, if she feels rightly, that she is fulfiling one of the vital duties laid upon her as an accountable being, and that her character, instead of being ‘unnatural,’ is in exact accordance with the need of Him to whom, and to no different, she is responsible for the skills and the gifts confided to her. It has since fallen into my palms, and I need to digress from my intention of exhibiting the situation of women in different components of the world, with the intention to make some remarks on this extraordinary doc. To work willingly along with her palms, to open her arms to the poor, to clothe herself with silk and purple, to look well to her household, to make nice linen and sell it, to deliver girdles to the service provider, and not to eat the bread of idleness, appears to have constituted in the view of Solomon, the perfection of a girl’s character and achievements.