Nor is it only in the Old Testament that such morals and such justice are taught. The clergy put that part off by saying--"Oh, that was a different dispensation, and God, the Unchangeable, has changed his mind." That is the sole excuse they give for all the "holy" men, who used to talk personally with God, practicing polygamy and all the other immoralities. They maintain that it was God's best man who upheld polygamy then, and that it is the Devil's best man who does it now. Odd idea, isn't it? Simply a question of time and place; and as Col. Ingersoll says, you have got to look on a map to see whether you are damned or not. But it does seem to me that a God that did not always know better than that, is not a safe chief magistrate. He might take to those views again, They say history is likely to repeat itself. Anyhow, I would rather be on the safe side and just fix the laws so that he couldn't. It would be just as well. But now we have come to "St." Paul and his ideas on the woman question. He worked the whole problem by simple proportion and found that man stands in the same relation to woman as God stands to man. That is, man is to woman as God is to man--and only a slight remainder. I'm not going to misrepresent this gifted saint. I shall let him speak for himself. He does it pretty well for a saint, and much more plainly than they usually do. 33 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, _as unto the Lord,_ 33 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._ --Ephesians v. The husband is the saviour of the wife! Pretty slim hold on heaven for most women, isn't it? And then suppose she hasn't any husband? Her case is fatal. 34 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. --Ephesians v. Paul was a modest person in his requirements. 9 In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with braided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array. --1 Timothy ii. It does seem as if anybody would know that braided hair was wicked; and as to "gold and pearls and costly array," all you have to do to prove the infallibility of Paul--and what absolute faith Christians have in it!--is to go into any fashionable church and observe the absence of all such sinfulness: 10 But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works. 11 _Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection_. 12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. 13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve. 14 And _Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived_ was in the transgression. --1 Timothy ii.