144 CORINTHIANS, 1st, 14: 34, 35 C. H. Cayce “Let your women keep silent in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law. And if they will learn anything, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.” The other text reads,”In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with braided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array; but (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.
Let the women learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.” It seems to us that the language of the apostle recorded in these two places concerning a woman speaking in public is as plain as can be. We do not know how such a practice could be condemned in stronger terms. It is a plain command in the first text to “let your women keep silence in the churches.” No one having regard for Holy Writ can say, in the face of this text, that it is Scriptural or right for a woman to preach, or to make a speech in church.
The Primitive Baptist, June 1, 1915.