o, did not want her or any other woman to
permanently occupy the Presbyterian pulpit. Dr. Wilson rejoiced to see
so many women crowding in the lecture-room; but Brother See should not
take all the glory to himself. He was glad to see the women take so
deep an interest in the subject under discussion; but as he looked at
them he asked himself, "What will all the little children do, while
these women are away from home?"[213]

The Christianity of to-day thus continues to teach the existence of a
superior and an inferior sex within the Church, possessing different
rights, and held accountable to a different code of morals, when even
woman's dress is held as typical of her inferiority. Not alone did Dr.
Craven express this idea, but the Right Rev. Dr. Coxe refused the
sacrament to the lady patients at the Clifton Springs Sanitarium in
1868, whose heads were uncovered. This same Right Rev. Dr. Coxe, in a
speech at his installation as first President of Ingham Seminary for
young ladies, declared "the laws of God to be plainly Salic."

Rev. Knox-Little, a High-Church clergyman of England, spent a few
weeks in the United States during the fall of 1880. In the course of
his stay in Philadelphia he preached a "Sermon to Women," in the large
church of St. Clements. The following extract from the report in the
Times of that city shows its teachings:

"God made himself to be born of a woman to sanctify the virtue of
endurance; loving submission is an attribute of woman; men are
logical, but women lacking this quality, have an intricacy of
thought. There are those who think women can be taught logic;
this is a mistake. They can never by any power of education
arrive at the same mental status as that enjoyed by men, but they
have a quickness of apprehension, which is usually called leaping
at conclusions, that is astonishing. There, then, we have
distinctive traits of a woman, namely, endurance, loving
submission, and quickness of apprehension. Wifehood is the
crowning glory of a woman. In it she is bound for all time. To
her husband she owes the duty of unqualified obedience. There is
no crime which a man can commit which justifies his wife in
leaving him or applying for that monstrous thing, divorce. It is
her duty to subject herself to him always, and no crime that he
can commit can justify her lack of obedience. If he be a bad or
wicked man she