WHAT THE CHURCHES ARE DOING.

Press, Volume L, Issue 15047, 15 August 1914, Page 16

WHAT THE CHURCHES ARE DOING.

NEWS AND NOTES FOR PULPIT AND P£W

"THE TTOM.LX MOVEMENT." { Rer- A. ConnoU, M.A., 8.D., of Sof-1 ! ton Park Church, proaehtxl last month I umfcir the auspice* of th<» Liverpool j Union of Women Suffrage Sociotias, on Oalanans iii.. 2S, "Thero is neither malo or female," a great hi which the Apoetlo admitted no distinction of uatlo it.v, l s* rank or sex in the Kingdom of Christ. That was the solitary utt<?r----i anc« of Paul on the question "whojvin J ior range and daring in principle ho ; wont far beyond tho .tdvico he gave in particular detaik that no ol"U>n had seemed Uk« an irritating a.ss«raption of woman's inferiority. Mr Comic!! declared that the present ape was witnessing a supreme historic happening spnnpng out of the instinctive" yournnig aftor the ideal amonsr a multitude of women. It -was a moroment elemental in its character, drawn from Christ's nsion and mission for humanity. Already it had produced sismifionnt per- ' eortnbtire with shifts and radiant souls. It had aKockoti somo of tho deen social inr(j?ia!if ; es and Koine of tho n-srfnl problems and norils of women and airls. It had thrown opon whole demrtmente of national lifo* to awakened womnnrtood. He finely quoted a Hindu woman's pathetic prayer for liberty as an example of" tho" great world aspirations of women for an ampler life and power to express their own personality. In spite of tho set- , back duo to militancy, ho was con- ; vmced that woman's "claim -to a lull ■ sharo m shaping tho future fortune ' or tho notion mnst ho 'jr.-'-itori <~,•! v,, urgod all workers to go forward with Rood courage. Delay must n u i- L 0 resentment, but to patient and sustained efforts, strength for which would ! f. -fli i" tt v si ; eat rc,li sources aiailable for all who wcro serving in any moral movement. "