Imagine the ignorance of a lady who had only that source of information. "_But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but be in silence._" Observe the magnificent reason. "_For Adam was first formed, then Eve, And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived, was in the transgression._" Splendid! "_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_." That is to say, there is as much difference between the woman and the man as there is between Christ and man. There is the liberty of woman. "_For the man is not of the woman, but the woman is of the man. Neither was the man created for the woman._" Well, what was he created for? "_But the woman was created for the man. Wives, submit yourselves unto your husbands, as unto the Lord_." There's liberty! "_For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church; and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore, as the church is subject unto Christ so let the wives to be their own husbands in every thing_." Even the Saviour didn't put man and woman upon any equality. The man could divorce the wife, but the wife could not divorce the husband, and according to the Old Testament, the mother had to ask forgiveness for being the mother of babes. Splendid! Here is something from the Old Testament: "_When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the Lord thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive. And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldst have her to thy wife. Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails_," (Deut. xxi. 10, 11, 12.) That is in self-defence, I suppose! This sacred book, this foundation of human liberty, of morality, does it teach concubinage and polygamy? Read the thirty-first chapter of Numbers, read the twenty-first chapter of Deuteronomy, read the blessed lives of Abraham, of David, or of Solomon, and then tell me that the sacred scripture does not teach polygamy and concubinage? All the language of the world is not sufficient to express the infamy of polygamy; it makes man a beast and woman a stone. It destroys the fireside and makes virtue an outcast. And yet it is the doctrine of the Bible. The doctrine defended by Luther and Melancthon! It takes from our language those sweetest words--father, husband, wife, and mother, and takes us back to barbarism and fills our hearts with the crawling, slimy serpents.