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The Seeker

CHAPTER IX
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I foresee the time in this very age of ours when no woman will continue to be wife to a man except by the dictates of her own lawless and corrupt nature--when a wife will make so-called love her only rule--when she will brazenly disregard the law of God and the word of his only begotten crucified Son, unless she can continue to feel what she calls 'love and respect' for the husband who chose her.

We prize liberty, Aunt Bell, but liberty with woman has become license since she lost faith in the word of God that holds her subject to man.

We should be thankful that the mother Church still stands firm on that rock--the rock of woman's subjection to man.

Our own Church has quibbled, Aunt Bell, but look at the fine consistency of the Church of Rome.

As truly as you live, the Catholic Church will one day hold the only women who subject themselves to their husbands in all things because of God's command--regardless of their anarchistic desire to 'please themselves.' There is the only Christian Church left that knows woman is a creature to be ruled with an iron hand--and has the courage to send them to hell for 'pleasing themselves.'" He glowed in meditation a moment, then, in a burst of confidence, continued: "This is not to be repeated, Aunt Bell, but I have more than once questioned if I should always allow the Anglo-Catholic Church to modify my true Catholicism.


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