H. C. HARPER

Whiteside, G. A., July 19, 1934, in answering a query raised by "two young women" in Arkansas, as to whether they were doing right in teaching classes in "Bible Study," or plain "Sunday School," as they have now called it, says: "Now, if these sisters had been teaching these children in public school, would any one ever have thought that they might be doing wrong And he says, "The devil has got in a clever piece of deception when he fools people into believing that it is all right for a woman to teach any other useful thing, but wrong for her to teach the Bible."

But nobody believes that it is wrong for her "to teach the Bible." In fact, if we read what the Apostle Paul says in Titus 2:3, and what is said in other Bible passages on the matter, we shall see that she is expected to teach the Bible; and the devil or man has got in a clever piece of deception when he fools people into believing that anybody believes it is wrong for a woman "to teach the Bible." And this same devil has got in a still more clever piece of deception when he fools people into believing a church of Christ is on a par with the "public school," a human institution.

And if the "Bible Study," or "Sunday School" is not the church, "the church at work," as its advocates claim when trying to defend it from the claim that "it is an institution separate and apart from the church, as is the missionary society," or any other human institution. And if it is the church, "the church at work," it must be subject to Christ its Head, and his word, or its walk is disorderly, and it is called upon to "repent." Rev. 2.

Whiteside evidently wants us to look upon the "Bible Study," or "Sunday School," as being the church, "the church at work," for he makes an effort to show that the Apostle Paul’s inhibitions do not debar women from teaching in the church.. And after quoting 1 Tim. 2:12, "But I permit not a woman to teach, nor to have dominion over a man, but to be in quietness," he says, "This language of Paul has often been misunderstood and misapplied."

He then says: "‘To have dominion over’ is the translation of one Greek verb. We get the idea. more clearly if we translate thus: But I permit not a woman to teach nor dominate a man. Man is the object of both verbs. The language does not even prohibit her from teaching a man, if she does it in a womanly way."

But seeming to realize that this sophistry it too transparently thin to blind "the two young women," women, who no doubt are sincerely seeking the truth, and want an honest answer, he throws out another straw to them, saying, "But even if it prohibited a woman’s teaching a man, it has nothing to do with her teaching children, or even grown women."

He evidently makes this flourish in the Greek to inspire confidence in his answer. What if "to have dominion over" is the translation of one word? Does this in any way affect the matter?

Not a bit of it. This fact clarifies nothing as to what the passage says, It is useless. And any school boy should know that in the text he quotes. "man is not "the object of both verbs." He does not use the comma after "teach" in his so-called "translation," but where is the scholarship that sustains him? It is not that of the Authorized version, not that of the Revised version, not that of the American Standard version. In fact, it is nowhere. And the 11th verse fully exposes his sophistry. It says, "Let a woman learn in silence with all subjects." And the 12th goes on: "But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence," just as it says in 1 Cor. 14:34-35: "Let your women keep silence in the churches, for it is not permitted to speak. . . . for it is a shame for women to speak in the church." And the Apostle shows in Timothy that the church is thus safeguarded since the woman is more readily seduced by Satan than man is.

These apostate churches of Christ, now churches of. Christ in name only, having digressed into the "Sunday School," the "Pastor System," the "cups in communion," the "Young People’s Meeting," will soon be ready for "mechanical music in the worship" and the "junior church." And when the organ, piano, or what-not, does once enter, it will take these churches by storm as did the Pastor system and the individual cups. The seed is already planted. And if these women suffer the devil’s to lead them away from the Word of the Lord, they can expect nothing but a devil’s hell, Mt. 25 :41-46.