nd private, but the sources of mighty power" (Grimke 257). She believes that women who preach the gospel and have to report to a male minister as a way to save souls are a false interpretation. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus "lays down grand the principles by which they [Christians] should be governed without any reference to sex or condition" (Grimke 258). Scripture doesn't make any distinction between men and women; it requires all people to be the "light of the world" (Grimke 258). Is it so unnatural for women to be public reformers? According to Grimke, women don't have to be ordained to minister to people.
The second fallacy exposed by Grimke is that, "the influence of woman...is to be private and unobtrusive: her light is not to shine before men like that of her b
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