red to in this charge. He did not, he said, affirm that
woman had no work in the church. She had a great and
glorious sphere; she had no right to teach and speak in
public meetings, but she could teach children and ignorant
men in private. He would not affirm that some women could
not preach as well as, or better than some men, and he did
not know but that in the future she might occupy the
platform on an equality with men; but at present she could
not, and it was expressly forbidden in the passages which he
had read. "You may run to hear another man's wife preach, or
another man's daughter," said he, "but who would have his
own wife stand upon the platform, or his own daughter face
the mob? Woman is the heart of man, but man is the head. Let
woman go upon the platform, and she loses that shrinking
modesty that gives her such power over children. What child
would wish to have a public-speaking mother? I trust this
evil will not creep in upon the church. I felt bound to
resist it at the outset, and unless I am convinced of my
error shall withstand it to the death." * * * *

January 2, 1877, Rev. Dr. See continued his defense of
himself for letting a woman into his pulpit. Then the roll
was called for the views of the Presbytery. Dr. McIllvaine
said that the two sources of light, as he understood it,
were the teachings of the Lord and his disciples. The Lord
didn't select women for his twelve, and vacancies were not
filled by women. It wasn't a woman who was chosen to do
Paul's work. He was the chosen teacher of the church in that
and all succeeding ages, and he had said, "I suffer not
women to teach, or to usurp authority in the church." Dr.
Brinsmade, who was the pastor of the Wickliffe Church before
Dr. See was called there, admitted that women could preach
well, but thought the Presbytery had better stick by the
divine command. Dr. Canfield also agreed with Paul. He loved
women and loved their work, but it seemed from the
experience of the world that God intended that the pulpit
should be the place for men. Such, at any rate, had been the
principle and the practice