with the profoundest reverence. Still, I welcome
upon this platform those who differ as far as possible from me.
And the Atheist no more "drags" in his Atheism, provided he only
shows that Atheism itself demands woman's equality, and is no
more out of order than I, when I undertake to show that
Christianity preaches one law, one faith, and one line of duty
for all.

Mrs. MOTT: We ought to thank Dr. Nevin for his kindly fears, lest
we women should be brought out into the rough conflicts of life,
and overwhelmed by infidelity. I thank him, but at the same time
I must say, that if we have been able this afternoon to sit
uninjured by the hard conflict in which he has been engaged, if
we can maintain our patience at seeing him so laboriously build
up a man of straw, and then throw it down and destroy it, I think
we may be suffered to go into the world and bear many others
unharmed.

Again, I would ask in all seriousness, by what right does
Orthodoxy give the invidious name of Infidel, affix the stigma of
infidelity, to those who dissent from its cherished opinions?
What right have the advocates of moral reform, woman's rights,
abolition, temperance, etc., to call in question any man's
religious opinions? It is the assumption of bigots. I do not want
now to speak invidiously, and say sectarian bigots, but I mean
the same kind of bigotry which Jesus rebuked so sharply, when He
called certain men "blind leaders of the blind."

Now, we hold Jesus up as an example, when we perceive the
assumption of clergymen, that all who venture to dissent from a
given interpretation, must necessarily be infidels; and thus
denounce them as infidels; for it was only by inference, that one
clergyman this afternoon made Joseph Barker deny the Son of God.
By inference in the same way, he might be made to deny everything
that is good, and praiseworthy, and true.

I want we should consider these things upon this platform. I am
not troubled with difficulties about the Bible. My education has
been such that I look to that Source whence all the inspiration
of the Bible comes. I love the truths of the Bible. I love the
Bible because it contains so many truths; but I never was
educated to love the errors of the Bible; therefore it does not
startle me to hear Josep