n. All reforms are
anti-Bible. We must look at all things rationally. We find women
endowed with certain capacities, and it is of no importance if
any book denies her such capacities. Would Mr. Grew say that
woman can not preach, in the face of such a preacher as LUCRETIA
MOTT?

Mrs. MOTT begged leave to substitute friend Grew's own daughter,
Mary Grew, who has already spoken on this platform!! and said,
Mr. Grew himself does not take all the Bible as inspiration, in
which most of the speakers concurred. She expressed her
attachment to the Scriptures, and said many excellent lessons
could be learned from them. She showed the misinterpretations of
the texts quoted by Mr. Grew and others against the equality of
the sexes. Mr. Grew does not take the Bible for his guide,
altogether. Mrs. Mott then quoted St. Paul in regard to marriage,
and said: Why in opposition to that text has Mr. Grew married a
second time? It was because he did not really believe that the
Scriptures were entirely inspired.

EMMA R. COE made a few remarks on the position of the clergy
generally toward this reform, the most beneficent in its results
of any, man has ever yet been called upon to consider. We often
hear it remarked that woman owes so much to Christianity. It can
not be the Christianity that the clergy have proclaimed on our
platform. From them we hear only of woman's degradation and
subjection. We have certainly nothing to be thankful for if such
are the principles Christ came into the world to declare; the
subjection of one-half of the race to the other half, as far as
we are concerned, is no improvement upon the religions of all
nations and ages.

At the close of this protracted discussion on the Bible position of
woman, the following resolutions, presented by Mr. Garrison, were
unanimously adopted:

_Resolved_, That while remembering and gladly acknowledging the
exceptional cases which exist to the contrary, we feel it a duty
to declare in regard to the sacred cause which has brought us
together, that the most determined opposition it encounters is
from the clergy generally, whose teachings of the Bible are
intensely inimical to the equality of woman with man.

_Resolved_, That whatever any book may teach, the rights of no
human being are dependent upon