Women’s Christian

The Women s Christian Temperance Union is founded in Cleveland, Ohio. 

Alcohol prohibition was enacted several years later when in 1920, Congress passed the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution. The legislation was a victory for the forces that viewed alcohol as evil and destructive, notably the Anti-Saloon League and the Women s Christian Temperance Union. And the amendment was not vague about its intent It prohibited the production, sale, transportation, and importing of alcohol in any part of the United States. The only exception was that alcoholic beverages kept in the home, such as naturally fermented hard cider, could be consumed but not offered for sale (Lender Martin, 1982). 

Always on the lookout for moral decay in America, the Women s Christian Temperance Union began attacking "soft drink" stands and "comer drag stores which have taken the place of the saloon as a social meeting place. Here is where marihuana and liquors can sometimes be bought."... 

Christian Krarup, Neurophysiology Laboratory, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115... 

Hosea specifies that the sacred prostitutes practised their art under the trees, where the shade is good (4.13). Ezekiel speaks of some kind of full-length veil by which they ensnared souls (13.18). The Holy Plant had not be uprooted under cover of darkness, lest the act be seen by the woodpecker of Mars (perhaps a folk-name for the red-topped Amanita Muscaria), or the sun and moon. The sexual power of women was vital to the mystery cults and accounts in large measure for the attractiveness of cuts to women from the earliest times. It also has much to do with the antagonism towards sexuality generally and the distrust of women displayed by the laser Church, and the readiness with which supposed witches were hounded by Christians until quite recent times. The telepathic control over people s minds exercised by such females, known the world over as the evil eye, came originally from this ability to arouse men s passions. 

As earnest of his commitment to female emancipation Christian Bohr taught review classes to prepare women for university study. One of his students was a Jewish banker s daughter, Ellen Adler. Her family was cultured, wealthy, prominent in Danish life her father was elected at various times to both the lower and upper houses of the Folketing, the Danish parliament. Christian Bohr courted her they were married in 1881. She had a lovable personality and great unselfishness, a friend of her sons would say. Apparently she submerged her Judaism after her marriage. Nor did she matriculate at the university as she must originally have planned. 

A further section, entitled Imphcations, sets forth seven or eight questions, of which the study leader is to select one for discussion. For the chapter on Girls, the questions are as follows What is sex for, in God s eyes What is a Christian perspective on passion What would you say to a friend who sleeps around and can see no problem with it How do you view your own sexuality Does it come under Christ s authority What damage does casual sex do Are there current or past sexual problems you need to sort out How can you commit to doing this, and get help if you need it What does it mean to be pure sexually, and how can we encourage each other in this and Should men be protective of women How can they treasure them more (ibid 23)... 

The apostle Paul described the care of orphans indirectly in his instructions concerning Christian widows. He insisted that widows first care for their own orphaned children and grandchildren. If these women had proven virtuous in raising their children, receiving strangers, and assisting those persecuted for the faith, and if they had reached the age of sixty, then the Christian community should enroll them as widows (i Tim 5 3 12). Paul s ordinances provide the first evidence of an order of widows in the early Church, not simply poor widows in need of sustenance, but older women who have accepted a special ministry after demonstrating fives of piety and charity. ... 

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