to
do so; but the two who are one flesh have an identity of
interests, therefore if it is a curse or evil to woman, it must
be so to man also. We mock God, when we make Him approve of man's
thus cursing himself and woman.

The submission enjoined upon the wife in the New Testament, is
not the unrighteous rule predicted in the Old. It is a Christian
submission due from man towards man, and from man towards woman:
"Yea, all of you be subject one to another" (1 Pet. v. 5; Eph. v.
21; Rom. xii. 10, etc.) In I Cor. xvi. 16, the disciples are
besought to submit themselves "to every one that helpeth with us
and laboreth." The same apostle says, "help those women which
labored with me in the Gospel, with Clement also, and with other
of my fellow-laborers."

Man is the head of the woman. True, but only in the sense in
which Christ is represented as head of His body, the Church. In a
different sense He is head of all things--of wicked men and
devils. If man is woman's head in this sense, he may exercise
over her all the prerogatives of God Himself. This would be
blasphemous. The mystical Head and Body, or Christ and His
Church, symbolize oneness, union. Christ so loved the Church He
gave Himself for it, made it His own body, part and parcel of
Himself. So ought men to love their wives. Then the rule which
grew out of sin, will cease with the sin.

It is said woman is commanded not to teach in the Church. There
is no such command in the Bible. It is said (1 Cor. xiv. 34),
"Let your women keep silence in the churches; for it is not
permitted unto them to speak." This injunction, taken out of its
connection, forbids singing also; interpreted by its context,
woman is merely told not to talk unless she does teach. On the
same principle, one who has the gift of tongues is told not to
use it in the Church, unless there is an interpreter. The rule
enforced from the beginning to the end of the chapter is, "Let
all things be done unto edifying." Their women, who had not been
previously instructed like the men, were very naturally guilty of
asking questions which did not edify the assembly. It was better
that they should wait till they got home for the desired
information, rather than put an individual good before the good
of the Church. Nothing els