A man who does not in his heart of hearts respect woman, who has not there an altar at which he worships the memory of mother, is less than a man. 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." The reason given for this, and the only reason that occurred to the sacred writer, was: 13. "For Adam was first formed, then Eve. 14. "And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. 15. "Notwithstanding, she shall be saved in child-bearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety."--_1 Tim. ii._ 3. "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, the woman sustains the same relation to the man that man does to Christ, and man sustains the same relation to Christ that Christ does to God. This places the woman infinitely below the man. And yet this barbarous idiocy is regarded as divinely inspired. How can any woman look other than with contempt upon such passages? How can any woman believe that this is the will of a most merciful God? 7. "For a man, indeed, ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man." And this is justified from the remarkable fact set forth in the next verse: 8. "For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man." This same chivalric gentleman also says: 9. "Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man."--_1 Cor. xi._ 22. "Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord." Is it possible for abject obedience to go beyond this? 23. "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. 24. "Therefore, as the Church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything."--_Eph. v._ Even the Savior did not put man and woman upon an equality. A man could divorce his wife, but the wife could not divorce her husband. Every noble woman should hold such apostles and such ideas in contempt. According to the Old Testament, woman had to ask pardon and had to be purified from the crime of having born sons and daughters. To make love and maternity crimes is infamous. 10. "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, 11. "And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife, 12. "Then thou shalt bring her home to thy house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails."--_Deut. xxi_.