CHAPTER XV.. Woman, Church, and State.

WOMAN, CHURCH, AND STATE.

Woman under old religions--Woman took part in offices of early Christian Church Councils--Original sin--Celibacy of the clergy--Their degrading sensuality--Feudalism--Marriage--Debasing externals and daring ideas--Witchcraft--Three striking points for consideration-- Burning of Witches--Witchcraft in New England--Marriage with devils--Rights of property not recognized in woman--Wife ownership--Women legislated for as slaves--Marriage under the Greek Church--The Salic and Cromwellian eras--The Reformation--Woman under monastic rules in the home--The Mormon doctrine regarding woman; its logical result--Milton responsible for many existing views in regard to woman--Woman's subordination taught to-day--The See trial--Right Rev. Coxe--Rev. Knox-Little--Pan-Presbyterians--Quakers not as liberal as they have been considered--Restrictive action of the Methodist Church--Offensive debate upon ordaining Miss Oliver--The Episcopal Church and its restrictions--Sunday-school teachings--Week-day school teachings--Sermon upon woman's subordination by the President of a Baptist Theological Seminary--Professor Christlieb of Germany--"Dear, will you bring me my shawl?"--Female sex looked upon as a degradation--A sacrilegious child--Secretary Evarts, in the Beecher-Tilton trial, upon woman's subordination--Women degraded in science and education--Large-hearted men upon woman's degradation-- Wives still sold in the market-place as "mares," by ahalter around their necks--Degrading servile labor performed by woman in Christian countries--A lower degradation--"Queen's women"--"Government women"--Interpolations in the Bible--Letter from Howard Crosby, D.D., LL.D. 752