Wipe the Dew Off Your Spectacles

Elizabeth Cady Stanton in Ministry) (JAW) Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a leader of the human rights crusades in the late nineteenth century. She was an abolitionist and worked with Lucretia Coffin Mott and Susan Anthony for human rights. Stanton was a precursor to the twentieth-century feminist readings of the Bible. In 1895, she published the Woman’s Bible, a series of biblical interpretations from a feminist point of view.

When many, women and men, criticized her project, she held to her convictions and responded: “Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles and see that the world is moving.””*! Interpreting the scriptures is a delicate matter for all serious students of the Bible. Can we wipe the dew off our spectacles and hear what people different from us are saying? As the world moves on, can we dialogue and cooperate, yet still have convictions?

Will the left, middle, and right, all ultimately be judged to have been intolerant and possessed by a lack of charity? Is unity in Christ possible amidst our diversity? (1 Cor 13:1-3; Eph 2:11-22; 4:1-6) (Convictions, Diversity, Unity, Tolerance) (CDW) Calvin Stowe. Biblical Scholar; Husband of Harriet Beecher