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452 & ••••••••• 218 • Telegrams from Harriot Stanton Blatch to SBA New York Oct 26 1902 1 Mother passed away today U Harriot Stanton Blatch T * New York Oct 26 1902 Private funeral for you & ourselves only,Wednesday eleven.apartment full. trained nurse Maggie ill. U Harriot Stanton Blatch Y Forms of Western Union Telegraph Company, ECS Papers, DLC. 1. When she donated this telegram to the Library of Congress, SBA wrote near it: “First Telegram—of Mrs. Stanton’s death—or indeed of her illness!! Oct 26th Sunday p.m.—” ••••••••• 219 • Article by ECS [27 October 1902] An Answer to Bishop Stevens 1 In his article the Bishop of North Carolina deals with scientific matter, but instead of giving biological proof of his first assertion that husband and wife are one flesh, or sociological statistics in support of his second assertion that the “disruption of one flesh” is bad, he quotes the Bible. But I decline to accept Hebrew Mythology as a guide in twentieth century science . In the beginning of his article, the Bishop declares that the wife should be allowed divorce on no ground whatsoever. But after endeavoring to 26 october 1902 ^ 453 bring agreement out of the contradictions of the Bible, he thinks it a “troublesome case,” and decides it might be expedient to allow divorce for desertion.Put simply this is the Bishop’s position: If a drunken man comes home every night and beats his wife, she must not divorce her husband; but if the same drunken man does not lift his hand against his wife, but on the contrary runs away and leaves her alone, then she may divorce him. The common-sense, plain people of the nation know life, and will not follow the advice of men who turn for guidance to writings of a people of 2,000 years ago. More and more intelligent people embrace truth as it is revealed to-day by human reason. I agree with exactly one sentence of the Bishop—“Most women will object to this article.” I commend instead of the myths of the second chapter of Genesis, 2 the following verses which theologians always overlook: “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him, male and female created he them. “And God blessed them. God said unto them . . . have dominion over every living thing.”—Gen., 1, 27 and 28. Y New York American, 27 October 1902. 1. Peter Fayssoux Stevens (1830–1910) of South (not North) Carolina was an alumnus and former superintendent of the Citadel,officer in the Confederate army, and bishop in the Reformed Episcopal Church for a special jurisdiction in the South. He worked primarily with African-American churches. The contribution by Stevens and this response by ECS appeared in the same issue of the New York American, although editorial notes near each article stated otherwise. The editor described her reply to Stevens as “the very last article written by Mrs. Stanton.” (Samuel Macauley Jackson et al., eds., The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge [New York, 1911], 11:88; Annie Darling Price, A History of the Formation and Growth of the Reformed Episcopal Church, 1873–1902 [Philadelphia , 1902], 275–76.) 2. Gen. 2:21–25. Stevens endorsed and exploited this account of God making woman from a rib of Adam in his pronouncement,“Just as Eve was made of Adam, not Adam of Eve, so the wife becomes a member of the husband, not the husband a member of the wife.” 27 october 1902 ...

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