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COKSTANCE L. MAYNAKD, ON THE 



priority of woman in the Fall (i Tim. ii, 13, 14). The passage in 

 Gralatians, referred to at length on p. 39, deals with the position 

 " in Christ Jesus " of all believers, not at all with their relations in 

 the world, nor even with their place " in ecclesia," as a reference 

 to T Cor. xi, 3-15 and i Tim. ii, 8 - 12, shows. There we see hierarchical 

 distinction fully recognized : " the head of every m^an is Christ, 

 and the head of the woman is the man." When, too, we read of 

 slavery in the Bible, is it necessary to read into it the abominations 

 of the African slave trade, as carried on by whites and Arabs ? 

 Would it not be more assimilated to the mild form of household 

 slavery practised by the natives themselves, which one has come 

 in contact with when travelling in Central Africa, where the slave 

 is treated as one of the family, and sometimes owns land and cattle, 

 and, " mirabile dictu." even in some cases, I believe, slaves himself ? 

 Otherwise it would seem strange that the apostle should have to 

 exhort a Christian slave to take his freedom, if the occasion presented 

 itself (I Cor. vii, 21). 



Mr. Sidney Collett sends the following : The Lecturer has 

 spoken of the " education " of girls in general ; and at the foot of 

 p. 43 says : " They leave college ready to take up the immense 

 responsibilities of womai hood." 



Now, is that really so ? My experience is that girls, generally 

 speaking, when they leave such colleges, are really much better 

 fitted to become teachers in other schools (for which indeed their 

 education has qualified them) than to assume the responsibilities 

 of a wife and a mother. What domestic training have they had in 

 the way of household work, cooking, and the care of little children, 

 etc. ? It is surely the lack of this practical womanly training, of 

 which the Lecturer has said nothing at all, which so often produces 

 — not wives and mothers — but what is colloquially called " Blue 

 Stockings." 



Another, and even more serious lack, I could not help noticing 

 in the Lecture, is the absence of any insistence upon the importance 

 of definite Christian training, on Bible lines, in our colleges. It is 

 well known that in most of the colleges for men (even the theological 

 ones) the Bible, as the inspired Word of God, is increasingly dis- 

 credited ; and it is somewhat disappointing that Miss Maynard 

 should not have brought this vitally important matter into 



