Part II

… When our men awake and rush to God’s waiting fields of labor, as soldiers, athirst for glory and victory, fling themselves upon bloody battlements of carnage, the Church will stand erect and gather to herself earth’s millions, clothing them rejoicingly in garments of eternal redemption. It is man, not woman, Christ, not Mary, who must redeem the world. We are in danger of reversing God’s order. The twelve were men. St. Peter, not his wife, was Apostle to the Circumcision. The Apostle to the Gentiles was Paul, the unmarried man. Women have their work and high place in the kingdom; but men are fittest for the pulling down of Satan’s strongholds, and for the building of the mighty walls and challenging towers of Zion. It is to men the Master gives the great commission. If men will hear and heed, and waking, go to work, “nations will be born in a day,” and Christ will “see of the travail of His soul and be satisfied.” …

(Source: The Rev. George M. Tolson, Report of the Archdeacon of Raleigh, 1907 Journal of Convention, 130-31)