“I have never felt willing,” says “a reverend divine” hight, Dr. Dewey, “in performing the marriage ceremony, to use the word obey, in reference to the wife. True, the apostle said, Wives, obey your husbands; but that was in an imperfect state of society; and in the present age of light and refinement, we should not insist on the command of the apostle.”—N.Y. Tribune. This is the way pretended “successors of the apostles” treat the words of Christ’s ambassadors! Urge upon them obedience to apostolic precept upon any subject not in harmony with their fleshly minds, and they exclaim, “O we ought not to insist on the command of the apostles; had they lived in our refined and enlightened age they would have spoken differently!” What an imposition upon the public are such “doctors of divinity!” Pshaw! Is Paul’s authority inferior to Dr. Dewey? The supposition is ridiculous.
EDITOR.
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