ained the subordination of woman.

This president of a theological seminary, where Christian theology is
taught to embryo Christian ministers, said that woman's subordination
would be most perfectly seen in the "Christian humility and gentleness
and endurance of her character, and in her indisposition to assume the
place or do the work of man," forgetting, apparently, that
subordination, humility, and endurance are precisely the qualities
which tend to destroy nobleness of character.

The sermon was especially directed against the following resolutions
of this Convention, which throughout the country met much clerical
criticism and opposition:

_Resolved_, That as the duty of every individual is
self-development, the lessons of self-sacrifice and obedience
taught women by the Christian Church have been fatal, not only to
her own highest interests, but through her have also dwarfed and
degraded the race.

_Resolved_, That the fundamental principle of the Protestant
Reformation, the right of individual conscience and judgment in
the interpretation of Scripture, heretofore conceded to and
exercised by man alone, should now be claimed by woman, and that
in her most vital interests she should no longer trust authority,
but be guided by her own reason.

_Resolved_, That it is through the perversion of the religious
element in woman, cultivating the emotions at the expense of her
reason, playing upon her hopes and fears of the future, holding
this life, with all its high duties, forever in abeyance to that
which is to come, that she, and the children she has trained,
have been so completely subjugated by priestcraft and
superstition.

Professor Christlieb, a distinguished German clergyman who was in
attendance upon the Evangelical Alliance in New York, a few years
since, expressed severe condemnation of the marriage relation as he
saw it in this country. His criticism is a good exemplification of the
general religious view taken of woman's relation to man. After his
return to Germany, a young American student called, it is related,
upon the professor with a note of introduction, and was cordially
received by the German, who, while he praised this country, expressed
much solicitude about its future. On being asked his reasons, he
frankly expressed his opinion that "the Spirit of Christ" was not
here, and proceeded to illustrate his