The Bishop being very liberal in his ideas, we discussed the various theologies, and all phases of the woman question.
I shall never forget those pleasant conversations as we sat outside on the platform, day after day, and in the soft moonlight late at night.

We took up the thread of our debate each morning where we had dropped it the night before.

The Bishop told me about the resolution to take the word "obey" from the marriage ceremony which he introduced, two years before, into the Methodist General Conference and carried with but little opposition.

All praise to the Methodist Church! When our girls are educated into a proper self-respect and laudable pride of sex, they will scout all these old barbarisms of the past that point in any way to the subject condition of women in either the State, the Church, or the home.

Until the other sects follow her example, I hope our girls will insist on having their conjugal knots all tied by Methodist bishops.
The Episcopal marriage service not only still clings to the word "obey," but it has a most humiliating ceremony in giving the bride away.