as deceived, so she deserves
punishment. Now I like that. If you commit a crime understandingly it is
all right. If you are deceived into doing it you ought to be damned. The
law says, "The criminality of an act resides in the intent;" but more
than likely St. Paul was not up in Blackstone and did not use Coke.

This next is St. Peter, and I believe this is one of the few topics
upon which the infallible Peter and the equally infallible Paul did not
disagree:

Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands;
that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the
word be won by the conversation of the wives;

2 While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with
fear.

--1 Peter iii.

I should think that would be a winning card. If the conversation of a
wife, coupled with a good deal of fear, would not convert a man, he is a
hopeless case.

But here is Paul again, in all his mathematical glory, and mortally
afraid that women won't do themselves honor.

3 But I would have you know, that the head of every man is
Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head
of Christ is God.

4 Every man praying or prophesying, having his head
covered, dishonoreth his head.

5 But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head
uncovered, dishonoreth her head; for that is even all one as
if she were shaven.

6 For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn:
but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let
her be covered.

7 For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch
as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the
glory of the man:

8 For the man is not of the woman, but the woman of the
man.

9 Neither was the man created for the woman, but the woman
for the man.
--1 Cor. xi.

And that settles it, I suppose. But what on earth was man created for? I
should not think it could have been just for fun.

34 Let your women keep silence in the churches; for it is
not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to
be under obedience, as also saith the law.

35 And if they will learn anything, let them ask their
husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in
the church.

--1 Cor. xiv.

That is a principle that should entitle St. Paul to the profound
admiratio