proper county or counties, in the same manner and with like
effect as other receipts and discharges may now be recorded
therein. 2. And be it enacted. That this act shall take
effect immediately.

A most remarkable trial, lately held in Newark, New Jersey, which
involved the question whether it was contrary to Scripture, and a
violation of the rules of the Presbyterian Church, to admit women
to the pulpit, is well reported by the New York _World_, January
1, 1877:

Since the time that the Rev. Theodore Cuyler was obliged by
the Presbytery of Long Island to apologize for inviting Miss
Sarah Smiley, the Quaker preacher, to occupy the pulpit of
the Lafayette Avenue Church in Brooklyn, the question of the
right of women to preach in Presbyterian churches, has come
up in various parts of the country, but has never been
brought judicially before any ecclesiastical body until
yesterday, when it occupied the attention of the Newark
Presbytery, under the following circumstances. October 29,
1876, Mrs. L. S. Robinson and Mrs. C. S. Whiting, two ladies
who were much interested in the temperance movement, asked
and received permission of the Rev. Isaac M. See, of the
Wickliffe Presbyterian Church at Newark, to occupy his
pulpit, morning and evening of that day. They accordingly
addressed the congregation on the subject of temperance. To
this the Rev. E. R. Craven, of the Third Presbyterian
Church, of Newark, objected, and brought before the Newark
Presbytery the following charge:

"The undersigned charges the Rev. Isaac M. See, pastor of
the Wickliffe Church, of Newark, N. J., a member of your
body, with disobedience to the divinely enacted ordinance in
reference to the public speaking and teaching of women in
churches, as recorded in I. Corinthians, xiv., 33 to 37, and
I. Timothy, ii., 13, in that: First specification--On
Sunday, October 29, 1876, in the Wickliffe Church of the
city of Newark, N. J., he did, in the pulpit of the said
church, and before the congregation there assembled for
public worship at the usual hour of the morning service,
viz., 10:30 A.M., introduce a woman, who