WOMAN AND SPEECH
"Let your women keep silence in the churches," is sometimes misunderstood to mean that women disobey a Bible injunction when they engage in public speaking. On the contrary, Saint Paul realized the demoralizing influences surrounding the Church of Corinth, and forbade female questioning. So far from commanding women to be silent, he specially commends the Greek woman Phoebe as minister in the Greek church of Cinchua. Most of the converts to Christianity were made by women who spoke and spoke well. The missionary movement in China, Japan, and India utterly failed until women who could speak persuasively were sent. Nearly all the work of the Salvation Army is done by women, and its leader in this country is a woman. Who are the women of influence in America to-day? They are those who can speak well—teachers, lecturers, social workers, and others engaged in professional and business pursuits. Who are the coming women of this country? Those who can speak their innermost convictions with certainty and power, help to solve great national problems, and give a message to the world that shall ring through the centuries!