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gle Christian women should do nothing which could 

 possibly bring them into disrepute. The lives of 

 Christians must be above suspicion. This message 

 is certainly as true to-day as it was in the time of 

 Paul and Corinth. Whether or not a woman speaks 

 in church to-day has no bearing whatever upon the 

 question. The question is how she speaks and what 

 she says. If her life gives force to her message and 

 her message contains God's truth she is entirely free 

 to speak. 



In similar fashion we have changed most beauti- 

 fully the message which we have come to love, as 

 the Mizpah message : "The Lord watch between thee 

 and me while we are absent one from the other." 

 We have absolutely transformed and glorified the 

 message. It was once the calling down of the wrath 

 of Jehovah upon one or other of two herdsmen if 

 either of them should fail to comply with the agree- 

 ment to remain within his own boundary. These 

 men whose herdsmen were constantly stealing each 

 other's cattle agreed to separate because they could 

 not live in unity. They set up a heap of unhewn 

 stone, and called upon God to guard and to see that 

 neither of them passed beyond the boundary of the 

 other. What was once a threat between warring 

 herdsmen has become a binding link between Chris- 

 tian brothers. No longer do we call upon the Lord 



