you are
damned or not. But it does seem to me that a God that did not always
know better than that, is not a safe chief magistrate. He might take to
those views again, They say history is likely to repeat itself. Anyhow,
I would rather be on the safe side and just fix the laws so that he
couldn't. It would be just as well.

But now we have come to "St." Paul and his ideas on the woman question.
He worked the whole problem by simple proportion and found that man
stands in the same relation to woman as God stands to man. That is, man
is to woman as God is to man--and only a slight remainder. I'm not going
to misrepresent this gifted saint. I shall let him speak for himself. He
does it pretty well for a saint, and much more plainly than they usually
do.

33 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, _as
unto the Lord,_

33 For the husband is the head of the wife, _even as Christ
is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the
body._

--Ephesians v.

The husband is the saviour of the wife! Pretty slim hold on heaven for
most women, isn't it? And then suppose she hasn't any husband? Her case
is fatal.

34 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let
the wives be to their own husbands in everything.

--Ephesians v.

Paul was a modest person in his requirements.

9 In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel,
with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with braided hair, or gold, or
pearls, or costly array.

--1 Timothy ii.

It does seem as if anybody would know that braided hair was wicked; and
as to "gold and pearls and costly array," all you have to do to prove
the infallibility of Paul--and what absolute faith Christians have in
it!--is to go into any fashionable church and observe the absence of all
such sinfulness:

10 But (which becometh women professing godliness) with
good works.

11 _Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection_.

12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority
over the man, but to be in silence.

13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve.

14 And _Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived_
was in the transgression.

--1 Timothy ii.

According to the reasoning of verse 13 man should be subject to all the
lower animals, because they were first formed, and then Adam. Verse 14
tells us that Adam sinned knowingly; Eve w