e is forbidden. There is not a word
here against woman's teaching. The apostle says to the whole
Church, woman included, "Ye may all prophesy, one by one."

In 1 Tim. ii. 12, the writer forbids woman's teaching over man,
or usurping authority over him; that is, he prohibits
dogmatizing, tutoring, teaching in a dictatorial spirit. This is
prohibited both in public and private; but a proper kind of
teaching is not prohibited. Verse 14--a reference to Eve, who,
though created last, sinned first, is merely such a suggestion as
we would make to a daughter whose mother had been in fault. The
daughters are not blamed for the mother's sin, merely warned by
it; and cautioned against self-confidence, which could make them
presume to teach over man. The Bible tells us of many
prophetesses approved of God. The Bible is truly democratic. Do
as you would be done by, is its golden commandment, recognizing
neither male nor female in Christ Jesus.

ERNESTINE L. ROSE: If the able theologian who has just spoken had
been in Indiana when the Constitution was revised, she might have
had a chance to give her definitions on the Bible argument to
some effect. At that Convention Robert Dale Owen introduced a
clause to give a married woman the right to her property. The
clause had passed, but by the influence of a minister was
recalled; and by his appealing to the superstition of the
members, and bringing the whole force of Bible argument to bear
against the right of woman to her property, it was lost. Had Miss
Brown been there, she might have beaten him with his own weapons.
For my part, I see no need to appeal to any written authority,
particularly when it is so obscure and indefinite as to admit of
different interpretations. When the inhabitants of Boston
converted their harbor into a teapot rather than submit to unjust
taxes, they did not go to the Bible for their authority; for if
they had, they would have been told from the same authority to
"give unto Caesar what belonged to Caesar." Had the people, when
they rose in the might of their right to throw off the British
yoke, appealed to the Bible for authority, it would have
answered them, "Submit to the powers that be, for they are from
God." No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as
self-evid