CONCLUSION.

“What are we, what our race,

How good for nothing and base,

Without fair woman to aid us?

What could we do, where should we go,

How should we wander in night and wo,

But for woman to lead us!”

        – Cristoval DeCastillejo, A.D. 1590.

     IN the preceding pages the following propositions have been clearly proved.

     1. Man and woman were created equal, each possessing the same rights and privileges as the other.

     2. At the fall, woman, because she was first in the transgression, was, as a punishment, made subject to her husband.

     3. Christ re-enacted the primitive law and re-stored the original relation of equality of the sexes.

     4. The objections to the equality of man and woman in the Christian Church, based upon the Bible, rest upon a wrong translation of some passages and a misinterpretation of others.

     The objections drawn from woman’s nature are fully overthrown by undisputed facts.

     5. In the New Testament church, woman, as well as man, filled the office of Apostle, Prophet, Deacon or preacher, and Pastor. There is not the slightest evidence that the functions of any of these offices, when filled by a woman, were different from what they were when filled by a man.

     6. Woman took a part in governing the Apostolic church.

We come, then, to this final CONCLUSION: THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST, IN THE PROVISIONS WHICH IT MAKES, AND IN THE AGENCIES WHICH IT EMPLOYS, FOR THE SALVATION OF MANKIND, KNOWS NO DISTINCTION OF RACE, CONDITION, OR SEX, THEREFORE NO PERSON EVIDENTLY CALLED OF GOD TO THE GOSPEL MINISTRY, AND DULY QUALIFIED FOR IT, SHOULD BE REFUSED ORDINATION ON ACCOUNT OF RACE, CONDITION, OR SEX.