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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 
