suffer loss rather than show her wealth of love with those who gilded dross with golden words in hope of gain; nor Miranda, who told her love as freely as a flower gives its bosom to the kisses of the sun; nor Imogene, who asked: "What is it to be false?" nor Hermione, who bore with perfect faith and hope the cross of shame, and who at last forgave with all her heart; nor Desdemona, her innocence so perfect and her love so pure, that she was incapable of sus- pecting that another could suspect, and sought with dying words to hide her lover's crime. If we wish to find what the Bible thinks of woman, all that is necessary to do is to read it. We will find that everywhere she is spoken of simply as property,--as belonging absolutely to the man. We will find that whenever a man got tired of his wife, all he had to do was to give her a writing of divorcement, and that then the mother of his children became a houseless and a homeless wanderer. We will find that men were allowed to have as many wives as they could get, either by courtship, purchase, or conquest. The Jewish people in the olden time were in many respects like their barbarian neighbors. If we read the New Testament, we will find in the 126 epistle of Paul to Timothy, the following gallant passages: "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." And for these kind, gentle and civilized remarks, the apostle Paul gives the following reasons: "For Adam was first formed, then Eve." "And Adam was not deceived, but the woman "being deceived was in the transgression." Certainly women ought to feel under great obli- gation to the apostle Paul. In the fifth chapter of the same epistle, Paul, advising Timothy as to what kind of people he should admit into his society or church, uses the following language: "Let not a widow be taken into the number under "threescore years old, having been the wife of one "man." "But the younger widows refuse, for when they "have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will "marry." This same Paul did not seem to think polygamy wrong, except in a bishop. He tells Timothy that: 127 "A bishop must be blameless, the husband of one "wife." He also lays down the rule that a deacon should be the husband of one wife, leaving us to infer that the other members might have as many as they could get. In the second epistle to Timothy, Paul speaks of "grandmother Lois," who was referred to in such extravagant language by Mr. Talmage, and nothing is said touching her character in the least. All her virtues live in the imagination, and in the imagina- tion alone. Paul, also, in his epistle to the Ephesians, says: "Wives, submit yourselves unto your own hus- "bands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the "head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the "church."