of the Presbyterian Church; and
if Brother See could not conform to its rules, he would say
to him, "Go, brother; there are other churches in which you
can find a place." Dr. Canfield was called to order for that
addendum. Dr. Hutchings, of Orange, referred to the ancient
justification of slavery from the Bible, and in view of
honest differences of construction accepted by the church,
thought the question should be left to the discretion of
pastors and church-sessions. Rev. Jonathan F. Stearns,
pastor of the First Church, demurred to this and stood by
the Scripture text. Nine-tenths of the ladies of the church,
he said, would vote against preaching by women.

Rev. James E. Wilson, pastor of the South Park Church, said
that in churches where women had been permitted to preach,
they had lost ground. "I have never heard a Quaker woman,"
said he, "preach a sermon worth three cents (laughter), and
yet I have heard the spirit move them to get up and speak at
most improper times and on most inopportune occasions, and
have heard them say most improper and impertinent things."
In the Methodist Church he did not believe that there were
over twenty-five women preachers, so the women were losing
ground, and not gaining. Even the woman suffragists, who
made so much noise a few years ago, had subsided, and he did
not believe there were a hundred agitators in the whole
country now. "See," he said, "where Brother See's argument
would carry him. Any woman that has the spirit upon her may
speak, and so, by and by, two or three women may walk up
into Brother See's pulpit and say,'Come down; it's our turn
now, we are moved by the spirit.' (Laughter). A woman's
voice was against her preaching; a man's voice came out with
a 'thud,' but a woman spoke soft and pleasing; however, here
were the plain words of the text, and any man that could
throw it overboard could throw over the doctrine of the
atonement. If a mother should teach her son from the pulpit
by preaching to him, thus disobeying the plain words of the
apostle, she must not be surprised if her son went contrary
to some other teac