WOMAN'S PLACE IN THE CHURCH.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1616, 6 December 1912, Page 2

WOMAN'S PLACE IN THE CHURCH.

Considerable interest is taken in Church quarters in the movement to secure for women a larger place in, ecclesiastical councils, writes a correspondent in the "Manchester Guardian." The decision last month of the Oxford Diocesan Conference by tho large majority to support the women's claim has given heart to the London advocates, who have a difficult task to gain a hearing for any such proposal here. At the lost Easter vestry meetings endeavours were made in some places to put women upon local Church councils, but they came to nothing, and preparations are already in hai(d to raise the_ question next year. So far as -the ruridecanal conferences are concerned, the Bishop of London's constitution of these bodies makes ■ no provision for women members, and as the diocesan conference is elocted from the deaneries no woman is eligible to sit upon the Church's great council. As women perforin the bulk of the work done by the laity, it is surprising that they should still he given no place on the bodies which advise upon, if they do not control, questions of Church government. The responsibility for this must in part be borne by the women themselves, for they have been extremely reluctant to put' forward any claim to recognition. In West London and the adjacent districts of Kew and Richmond the suffrage movement has brought out many women who have hitherto confined their public activities to Churoh work, which they have dovotedly performed. Somehow or other they have hesitated to claim a position on Church councils, but I am told that, the influence of a few bolder spirits is having' a marked effect, The assistance of the clergy to tho women's movement is not inconsidorable, and it will bo interesting to see how far this aid will be directed to furthering the efforts to open the membership of Church councils to womon.

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