PUBLIC LECTURE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 10118, 27 October 1917, Page 3

PUBLIC LECTURE.

I ',l public Mimi entitled "Woman', Work : and lho New linen'' was delivered (0 tl mm-.',U liul greatly interested nudieiico In Miss Christie en Tliiiimluv afternoon iii ' the Orionl Hall. Mi'S A. !'. Morgan «.'■ L-miicd llio cliuji- "i" 1 introduced ihc lee . tuifi - , I Tlu' esoteric meaning which unified the 1 Iwq apparently cruilra.dieu.iiy p.tyolittM of (lie order ol rreitUUn lij lllc 111,1 nfiil fteoostd rhitpTcrs of Genesis and the fall of inntl from tlic standpoint of occult teaching was dealt with, Woman with her intuition was ili" livsl to sec that (lie wisdom of liio serpent (always the symbol of wisdom in tli" World scriptures) really meant (he knowledge of evil as well ne of good, which made tnall and w.OlHsin ai gulls add turned tliein out of paradise, in which ignorance was the necessary fjudrdian of i innocence; this brotfghl pain and sufleyI ing, but whs ii necessary stage ov step in evolution. Adam and fve were the first man and woman, lull not the lirst huniaii lulu';- upon our planet; their story is that of llio separation of the sexes in tllO middle of die third race of ui"!i. Tito materialihtic conception of hitter-da.y teachers upon these two chapters is at tile root of the subordination of women and ihe sexunl impurity which now threatens the life of tho Teutonic or leadine race ol the world. The present Hygiene Dill, the Knll'ragette movement, White Slave traffic, and tho duties of women us mothers, wives and single women was explained and discussed, and j In. fiic! of woman's responsibility n-. a voter when in the majority. .Neither sex, -aid the lecturer, should dominate; each lias its own work and its own functional activity. Without pure men we cannot have pure women, and vice versa. i The "reai importance of having pure minded, clean bodied and, if possible, educated gentlewomen as nurses for infants was strongly emphasised and reasons given. \u sensual impure pi ison of animal nature should he allowed to caress and carry about in his or her arms an infant ol p,,,-,. physical, emotional and mental heredity. The reasons for pure nou-uesh diet* and non-alcoholic drink, and education without corporal punishment were explained; also the news of die new theosopliical schools now ill process of formation, into which children so undeveloped ns to be impossible of control without being hen ten'or terrified would not be admitted. Fear is a factor lit only for a place in the training of a semi-savage.