Women’s Role in Christian Service
By Editor
3137.— W. P. M. L.— 1 Tim. 2:11, 12; 1 Cor. 14:34.— There are some of these admonitions which the apostle gives which pertain to his own time, and to conditions which then obtained but do not now. There are principles, however, involved in the Word, which Christians in all times and ages can take home to their heart. There were customs in the idolatrous world around and in Corinth that it was not proper for women to follow, and at no time should they make themselves boisterous, immodest, arrogant, or assume to lord it over others. These are the things which the apostle condemns. These are principles which ought to obtain now. That the text does not mean that women should not testify for Jesus Christ, should not be employed as teachers in Sabbath-school and in all proper places for the Lord, is shown in various parts of the history of the apostle Paul's labor. Among his associates in the Gospel were Phœbe and Priscilla, and Priscilla was a teacher. The apostle gives instruction in the 11th chapter of First Corinthians as to how women should dress when they prophesied or taught. This has been answered many times in the past. There is no need of borrowing any trouble regarding it. Every truly Christian woman should know her place in the Lord's work, and every truly Christian man ought to be willing to see the Lord's plan operative in the employment of all His children, whether male or female. See Acts 2:17, 18.