aining the charge. Rev. Dr. Haley contended that Brother
See ought not to be condemned, because he had not offended
against any law of the church. Drs. Seibert, Ballantine and
Hopwood spoke in favor of sustaining the charge. A vote of
16 to 12 found Rev. Dr. See guilty of violating the
Scriptures by allowing women to preach, and the case was
appealed to the General Assembly.

The General Assembly adopted the following report on this case:

The Rev. Isaac W. See, pastor of the Wickliffe Church,
Newark, N. J., was charged by Rev. Elijah R. Craven, D. D.,
with disobedience to the divinely enacted ordinance in
reference to the public speaking and teaching of women in
the churches as recorded in I Corinthians, xiv., 33-37, and
in I Timothy, ii., 11-13, in that twice on a specified
Sabbath, in the pulpit of his said church, at the usual time
of public service, he did introduce a woman, whom he
permitted and encouraged then and there publicly to preach
and teach.

The Presbytery of Newark sustained the charge, and from its
decision Mr. See appealed to the synod of New Jersey, which
refused by a decided vote to sustain the appeal, expressing
its judgment in a minute of which the following is a part:

In sustaining the Presbytery of Newark as against the appeal
of the Rev. I. M. See, the synod holds that the passages of
scripture referred to in the action of the Presbytery, do
prohibit the fulfilling by women of the offices of public
preachers in the regular assemblies of the church.

From this decision Mr. See has further appealed to the
General Assembly, which, having thereupon proceeded to issue
the appeal, and having fully heard the original parties and
members of the inferior judicatory, decided that the said
appeal from the synod of New Jersey be not sustained by the
following vote: To sustain, 85. To sustain in part, 71. Not
to sustain, 201.

From the following description by Mrs. Devereux Blake, we have
conclusive evidence of woman's capacity to govern under most
trying circumstances:

A certain little woman living in Jersey City has, from time
to time, occupi