hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of
his city, and unto the gate of his place. And they shall say unto the
elders of his city, 'This, our son, is stubborn and rebellious, he will
not obey our voice, he is a glutton and a drunkard.' And all the men of
this city shall stone him with stones, that he die, so shalt thou put
evil away."

That is a very good way to raise children. Here is the story of
Jephthah. He went off and he asked the Lord to let him whip some
people, and he told the Lord if He would let him whip them, he would
sacrifice to the Lord the first thing that met him on his return; and
the first thing that met him was his own beautiful daughter, and he
sacrificed her. Is there a sadder story in all history than that? What
do you think of a man that would sacrifice his own daughter? What do
you think of a God that would receive that sacrifice? Now, then, they
come to women in this blessed gospel, and let us see what the gospel
says about women. Then you ought all to go to church, girls, next
Sunday and hear it. "Let the woman learn in silence with all
subjection; but I suffer not a woman to teach nor to usurp authority
over the man, but to be in silence for Adam was formed first, not Eve."

Don't you see?

"And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the
transgression. Notwithstanding she shall be saved in child-bearing if
they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety." (That
is Mr. Timothy.) "But I would have you know that the head of every man
is Christ, and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ
is God."

I suppose that every old maid is acephalous.

"For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, for as much as he is the
image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of the man. For the
man is not of the woman, but woman of the man. Neither was the man
created for the woman, but the woman for the man." "Wives, submit
yourselves unto your own husband as unto the Lord, for the husband is
the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the Church."

Do you hear that? You didn't know how much we were above you. When
you go back to the old testament, to the great law-giver, you find that
the woman has to ask forgiveness for having borne a child. If it was a
boy, thirty-three days she was unclean; if it was a girl, sixty-six.
Nice laws! Good laws! If there is a pure thing in this world, if
there is a picture of perfect p