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CHAPTER I. t~umbess i. And the Lord spake unta Moses in the wilder- ness of Sinai, 2 Take ye the sum of all the congregation ot of the children of Is, on аар=╨/╨8аар=╨/╨8dCompObj            U                                    to the church and the home. This census of able bodied men still rulls on through chapter ii, and all these potential soldiers are called children of their fathers. Although at this period wom:tns chief duty and happiness was bearing children, no mention is made of the mothers of this mighty host, though solne woman had gone to the gates of death to give each suldicr life ; provided him with rations long before he could forage for himself, and first taught his little feet to march to tune and time. But, perhaps, if we could refer to the old Jewish census tables we might find that the able bodied males of these tribes, favorites of Heaven, had all sprung, Minerva-like, from the brains of their fathers, and that only the priests, the feeble old men and the children had mothers to care for them, in the absence of the princes and soldiers. However, in some valuable calculations of Schencher we learn that there was some thought of the mothers of the tribes by German commentators. We find in his census such references. as the following: The children of Jacob by Leah. The chi■ХS│ │ а░TЫ╨╖ tА КЪЪЪЪаар=╨/╨8dЪ    ╨╡ tЪмT THE BOOK OF NUMBERS. CHAPTER I. t~umbess i. And the Lord spake unta Moses in the wilder- ness of Sinai, 2 Take ye the sum of all the congregation ot of the children of Is, on ~ ? Thrve are tho,e which were numbered by ti,,' louse of their fathers : all those that were :,u,,,t,ere'l of tt~'the children of Israel, after their ta,nilie~,, hy cops throughout their t,o.,t.~ ~,? ~ sit t,undrn,t the house of thetr fathers, with the number of thousand and three thousand ant tire hundred their names, every male by their potls:attd fifty. IN this chapter Moses is commanded to number the people and the princes of the tribe, males only, and by the houses 1)1 their fathers. As the object was to see how many effective men there were able to go to war, the priests, the women, the feeble old men and children were not counted. Women have frequently been classified with priests in some privileges and disabilities. At one time in the United States tlle clergy were not allowed to vote nor hold office. Like women, tlley were considered too good to mingle in political circles. For them to have individual opinions on the vital questions of the hour might introduce dissensions alike into the church and the home. This census of able bodied men still rulls on through chapter ii, and all these potential soldiers are called children of their fathers. Although at this period wom:tns chief duty and happiness was bearing children, no mention is made of the mothers of this mighty host, though solne woman had gone to the gates of death to give each suldicr life ; provided him with rations long before he could forage for himself, and first taught his little feet to march to tune and time. But, perhaps, if we could refer to the old Jewish census tables we might find that the able bodied males of these tribes, favorites of Heaven, had all sprung, Minerva-like, from the brains of their fathers, and that only the priests, the feeble old men and the children had mothers to care for them, in the absence of the princes and soldiers. However, in some valuable calculations of Schencher we learn that there was some thought of the mothers of the tribes by German commentators. We find in his census such references. as the following: The children of Jacob by Leah. The children of Jacob by Zilpah. The children of Jacob by Rachel. The children of Jacob by Bilhah. But even this generous mention of the mothers of the tribe of Jacob does not satisfy the exacting members of the Revising Committee. We feel that the facts should have been stated thus: The children of Leah, Zilpah, Rachel and Bilhah by Jacob, making Jacob the incident instead of the four women. Men may consider this a small matter on which to make a point, but in restoring woman's equality everywhere we must insist on her recognition in all these minor particulars, and especially in the Bible, to which people go for their authority on the civil and social status of all womankind. 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