QUES. 7.-Is there scripture for women to take part in Meetings in the way of asking questions and giving out thoughts, (outside of the morning meeting for breaking of bread), and is the meeting together to break bread the only assembly meeting? It has been brought up of late in our little gathering, and we are not all of the same mind as to it. I trust we all shall come to a happy unity by the Word. Please answer in "Help and Food."

ANS.-1 Tim. 2:11; 12 and 1 Cor. 14:34, 35 are plain and decisive answers to your double question. Both plainly forbid woman's voice being heard in the assembly, and the latter is not a meeting for the breaking of bread but for mutual edification. "At home," as verse 35 enjoins, is evidently the God-appointed sphere for women, both to ask questions and to minister. See Acts 18:26. This is a sphere large and inviting, not only for godly women but also for godly men. Would to God there were more to occupy it.