nations, although they have raised more
money than the male societies have ever been able to do--even helping
them pay old debts--and have reached large classes of their own sex
whom the male societies were powerless to touch. By thus supplementing
men's work, they have made themselves acceptable.

Not only do councils, convocations, conferences, conventions, synods,
and assemblies proclaim woman's inferiority, but Sunday-schools teach
the same doctrine. A letter from a correspondent of _The National
Citizen and Ballot-Box_ (Syracuse, N. Y.), in August, 1880, said:

Our Sunday-schools here have just finished the lesson on the
creation and fall of man, and those of us who are capable of
feeling, felt keenly the thrusts at woman for her infidelity to
God's laws, and her overpowering influence in dragging man from
his exalted position in life into a bondage of sin and death, and
that she is to be held responsible for all the accumulated sins
of the ages. One man said that "had not Eve been _lurking_ around
where she had no business, the devil would never have tempted
her." Another said, "Had it not been for woman, we might to-day
be living in ease and splendor," and I listened to hear them say
the fallen angel was a woman.

This same doctrine is taught in the public schools. _The Republican_,
of Havre de Grace, Maryland, in its issue of August 6, 1880, gave the
following report of a speech at that time:

Thus spoke Master Showell at the Berlin (Wicomico County)
High-School commencement: "By woman was Eden lost and man cursed.
If you trust her, give up all hopes of heaven. She can not love,
because she is too selfish. She may have a fancy, but that is
fleeting. Her smiles are deceit; her vows are traced in sand. She
is a thread of candor with a web of wiles. Her charity is
hypocrisy; she is deception every way--hair, teeth, complexion,
heart, tongue, and all. Oh, I hate you, ye cold composition of
art!"

Sermons are frequently preached in opposition to woman's demand for
equality of right in Church and State. On the Sunday following the
Thirtieth Anniversary Woman Suffrage Convention, held in Rochester,
1878, the Rev. A. H. Strong, D.D., President of the Baptist
Theological Seminary of that city, preached upon "Woman's Place and
Work," saying:

In the very creation of mankind in the garden of beauty, God
ord