h Barker point to some of those errors.
And I can listen to the ingenious interpretation of the Bible,
given by Antoinette Brown, and am glad to hear those who are so
skilled in the outward, when I perceive that they are beginning
to turn the Bible to so good an account. It gives evidence that
the cause is making very good progress. Why, my friend Nevin has
had to hear the temperance cause denounced as infidel, and proved
so by Solomon; and he has, no doubt, seen the minister in the
pulpit, turning over the pages of the Bible to find examples for
the wrong. But the Bible will never sustain him in making this
use of its pages, instead of using it rationally, and selecting
such portions of it as would tend to corroborate the right; and
these are plentiful; for notwithstanding the teaching of
theology, and men's arts in the religious world, men have ever
responded to righteousness and truth, when it has been advocated
by the servants of God, so that we need not fear to bring truth
to an intelligent examination of the Bible. It is a far less
dangerous assertion to say that God is unchangeable, than that
man is infallible.

In this debate on the Bible-position of woman, Mr. Garrison having
always been a close student of that Book, was so clear in his
positions, and so ready in his quotations, that he carried the
audience triumphantly with him. The Rev. Dr. Nevin came out of the
contest so chagrined, that, losing all sense of dignity, on meeting
Mr. Garrison in the vestibule of the hall, at the close of the
Convention, he seized him by the nose and shook him vehemently. Mr.
Garrison made no resistance, and when released, he calmly surveyed his
antagonist and said, "Do you feel better, my friend? do you hope thus
to break the force of my argument?" The friends of the Rev. Mr. Nevin
were so mortified with his ungentlemanly behavior that they suppressed
the scene in the vestibule as far as possible, in the Cleveland
journals, and urged the ladies who had the report of the Convention in
charge, to make no mention of it in their publication. Happily, the
fact has been resurrected in time to point a page of history.

A question arising in the Convention as to the colleges, Antoinette
Brown remarked:

That much and deeply as she loved Oberlin, she must declare that
it has more credit for liberality to woman than it deserves.