FEMALE FRANCHISE.

Evening Star, Issue 9154, 8 June 1893, Page 4

FEMALE FRANCHISE.

TO THE EDITOR.

Snt, -Your correspondent "I).Macniillan" is not consistent. He takes Scripture to suit himself. I have no respect for the opinions of ministers of the Gospel and men of "D. Macmillan's " stamp who take Paul as their stronghold against women while they themselves do not follow out his teaching when it hits home too close. Paul is equally strong on marriage. Why did not " 1). Macinillan " tell his wifouiat Paul did not approve of marriage, so Bhe must remain in single blessedness ? But perhaps he has repented ever since, and maybe that is the reason he is so strong on Avomen "bearing in silence." Again, who ever heard of a minister refusing to marry on the same ground? Why don't such men be consistent—not strain at a gnat and swallow a camel? "D. Macmillan" reads his Bible, perhaps. He will then remember that when some high-class Pharisees found fault with the woman who poured the box of ointment upon the head of our Lord, Jesus rebuked t liem.and said'' Let her alone," and, methinks, lie would say to " I). Macmillan'' "Leave the women alone.'" There is one tiling very certain : it comes with better grace from the Apostle Paul than "D. Macmillan," for Paul went about doing good. Whatever his opinions were about women, he did not shut himself up in four walls and let th<J world go to the devil. If we had a few men like Paul nowadays we could afford to look on, and maybe we could be silent ; at anyrate we might try. ' But I am afraid the women in Paul's day were not as we are. It would take " 1). Macmillan'' all his time to find one who would "learn in silence with all subjection'' nowadays. In conclusion, I may say I find nothing in the Bible for or against female franchise, but I find two commandments, Love to God and love to man, and on these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. These were not the words of Paul, but Jesus. He is our pattern. He was a true friend to the women, and He is the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever.—l am, etc., * * ' F.B.F.