Then a man named Hale rose, and asked if it were right for women to teach in sabbath schools. “Certainly it is!” answered Mr. Zenas Melendy, “very right and very proper.”--“And if,” continued Mr. Hale, “inquirers anxious for the welfare of their souls should come to your wife, seeking light on religious subjects, it would be right for her to give them information?”--“Certainly!” answered Mr. Zenas. “She would be very blameworthy in not doing it.”--“On the contrary,” replied Mr. Hale, opening his Testament, “she is strictly forbidden to do it. Here Paul says, ‘_I suffer not a woman to teach._’ This excludes women from teaching the truths of the gospel, from teaching in the sabbath school, in high schools, normal schools, any schools.” “But Paul didn’t mean,” began Mr. Zenas--“Excuse me,” interrupted Mr. Hale. “The conditions are, not to add, nor subtract, nor explain away. And here in Ephesians is another text.” Mr. Hale then read, “_Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands in every thing_,” and asked if that command were to be obeyed without adding, subtracting, or explaining away. “Why, yes,” answered Mr. Zenas, with a hesitancy which caused a general smile; it being pretty well understood in Tweenit that Mrs. Zenas does not fulfil that command to the very letter. “This injunction, then,” remarked Mr. Hale, “takes from wives all personal responsibility. Submit yourselves to your husbands in _every thing_. If a husband wishes his wife to do a wrong act, it is her duty to obey him.” Mr. David said, that, of course, a woman should not do any thing against her own conscience. Mr. Hale replied, that the text left her no right of private judgment, inasmuch as Paul declared over and over again in his epistles, that the wife must submit to the husband, and that “_the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the church_.” “And here,” Mr. Hale continued, “is a passage which commands us to ‘_Owe no man any thing._’ Those who cannot worship in a building in which women speak cannot worship with any person who is in debt. And here again” (turning the leaves) “are other texts: ‘_Let no man seek his own, but every man another’s wealth._’ ‘_Bear ye one another’s burdens._’ These are equally emphatic: if one binds, all bind.”