they consent to have any) while mothers as surgeons are
operating indiscriminately upon the victims of a terrible
railway disaster? * * * No kind husband will refuse to
nurse the baby on Sunday (when every kind of business is
stopped) in order to let his wife attend church; but even
then, as it is not his natural duty, he will soon be tired
of it and perhaps get impatient waiting for the mother,
chiefly when the baby is crying.

These, with the omnipresent quotations from St. Paul to the
effect that women shall keep silence in the church, etc., formed
the argument of the Bishop in two or three lengthy sermons.
Indignant men, disgusted with the caliber of the opposition and
yet obliged to notice it on account of the position of the
divine, made ample rejoinders. Rev. Dr. Crary of Golden, in an
exhaustive review of the Bishop's discourse, deprecated the
making permanent and of universal application the commands which
with Paul were evidently temporary and local, and said half the
churches in Christendom would be closed if these were literally
obeyed:

"Women should not usurp authority, therefore men should
usurp all authority." This is the sort of logic we have
always heard from men who are trotting along in the wake of
progress and howling because the centuries do not stop
rolling onward. In barbarous regions Paul is paraded against
educating girls at all. In half-civilized nations Paul is
doing service against educating girls except in the
rudiments. Among people who are just beginning to see the
hill-tops of a higher, nobler world, Paul is still on duty
crowding off women from high-schools and colleges. Proud
universities to-day have Paul standing guard over medical
meanness and pushing down aspiring female souls from the
founts of knowledge. Within our memory Paul has been the
standing demonstration in favor of slavery, intemperance and
the oppression of women.

Another sermon in which the Bishop lays solemn stress on the one
sacred, inevitable duty of women to become wives and mothers, was
answered by Mr. David Boyd of Greeley, who, among other things,
asks the Bishop:

How, in view of the injunction to increase