Women's suffrage in the congregation (Pieper 1899) — "the spirit of the age"

      We saw in earlier posts how Walther (1885) and another writer (1872) defended the Biblical teaching of women in the congregation (here and here).  Now in 1899, before the turn of the century, we see how Prof. Franz Pieper not only carries on this doctrine, he emphatically reinforces it.  Der Lutheraner vol. 55 (1899), p. 35 [EN]:

Women's suffrage in the congregation. We read in the Lutheran Observer: "The German Philadelphia Conference of Pastors of the Pennsylvania Synod has decided against women voting in congregational meetings; the English Conference, on the other hand, has voted unanimously in favor of the measure." If this is the case, then the English Conference has unanimously decided against God's Word. God's Word says in 1 Cor. 14:34—35 [LED]: "Let your wives keep silence among the congregation: for it shall not be lawful for them to speak.… But if they would learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home. It is evil for women to speak among the congregation." From this it follows that 1. women should not speak in the congregational meetings; 2. women should not appear in the congregational meetings at all, but remain "at home". Women and children have men as their natural representatives in church meetings, just as men are the natural representatives of women and children in public civic life. The English Conference of Philadelphia has placed itself in direct opposition to God's order with its decision. And this is not good. We can well imagine how that English Conference came to this unchristian decision. It simply gave in to the wrong public opinion. We Americans, for as highly as God has gifted and blessed us in many natural things, have become unreasonable and childish in some respects. This includes, in particular, the effort to abolish the natural, God-ordained difference between man and woman and to drag woman into the public sphere in the state and in the church. But the Church of God does not exist on earth to fool with the world, but to confess God's Word and will to the world. We hope that this English Conference, which calls itself Lutheran, will promptly take back its wrong decision. The Church never gains anything by making concessions to the spirit of the age. She has the promise of her Savior only if she remains faithful to His Word. F. P. [Franz Pieper]

Now there is no doubt how this will be received in our modernist soaked society.  But it is not Pieper that our society is against, it is God's Word.  And need I prove how the LC-MS has swallowed the modernist thinking of the English Conference above?… "hook, line and sinker".  Yet they would promote their defense of God's Word to society?