WOMEN MINISTERS.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20178, 5 March 1931, Page 11

WOMEN MINISTERS.

"-to] rauj' lepffoa' a# v ' 1 fiark clays .of >depresr sip», . , will not iO&i bjfcher peopleV Wpney * °P''% confar'ejiqes £o fe' w V C- k 1 >\ '[>/1

lF T %T r Wv~' 1 ; •. s' t , wqrtli repeating, '"voluntarily", -to rednce tboir own salaries, and that this ■ offer Jiaa been gjadly accepted. Perhaps 1 it ig partly.our self*righteausness which makes us look on Australia its.a wanning rather than an example, i but in this matter the Methodistj nj iti- ' listers,'of New' South 'Wales have led. the way. • , * » . Tlte churches are about * half empty ' 'now? ' .dse' probably' in part «> effeminacy of much of,the preaching, but when petticoats invade the pulpit, thinks -will ■be much, worse.—Yours:. ■. *. tI- ■:? : t - : lf ; ~ TEN PER CENT. March 4th, 1931,' I '' ' TO TBS BDITOS OV THX MM Sir,—Your , correspondent, s "One[ Who Goes ,to Chnrcl? \ makes a mistake when he $ (or she) says ■ that the Ehglifeb Church has not introduced the innovation of Women pjfeach-. inft In the Lambeth -Conference of last year, the Resolution on the Minis-ti-y'of Deaconesses includes:— ' (d) "in rchuroh .to reafl morning ' and evening prayer and the Litany, except such portions as are reserved ttf the priest, and'to lead in prayer: with the license, pf the Bishop, # to in, - struct and preach, except in ,the of Holy Communion." Tliis at any rate shows the mind, of the' Church, although the resolutions have • not .yet passed into law. Of, course the .Church does -not plate women doing the Mnjork of "the priest,, such -as celebrating ,the Holy 'Communion, ,or performing the marriage'ceremony. • Evcjn now the. Deaconess 'is allowed fa gfye addresses in Church normally '~to women'and children,'"which, of 'course, ,means that, the Bishop ,"can 'make exceptions xylien he' thinks fit.' A great iqany women Messengers in the "Crusades held in Xondon in recent ;years have : addressed ' large. crowds of imen and jromen outside. "It is only a •pt«p further to come' inside the Church, which 1 the Lambeth Conference is evidently degirous that they sbouM< do.—Yours, etc., > ■C- ■ ' T A CHURCHWOMAN. March 4th, 1931.' ■ 1