RIGHT TO VOTE.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1889, 18 October 1913, Page 11

RIGHT TO VOTE.

WOMAN'S PLACE IN CHURCH LIFE

The question of granting voting powers to women /at parish meetings oam« before the Anglioan Church Synod at Christohuroh on Wednesday, wten Mr. T. W. Rowe moved:—"That this Synod affirms the principle that! the right of voting at parish meetings should be extended to women." In the .course of his speech' Mr. Kowa aaid fhat the laity representatives wore elected l to represent the whole of the laity of a parish, and the women wero part of tho laity. The argument had been raised that women had not sufficient mental powerß to exercise a vote; When he know of tho mental oapacity of some women he gasped at this assertion. It had also beon stated that if women wcro given the vote it would make the men slacker wan ever in interesting themselves in church matters. Experience had, howover, proved that where women pos.lesscd the vote it quickened up the men's Interest. It had further boon suggested that women's placo was in tho home. It could be equally suggested that man being out of the home all day should never'come home. He did not think, in reply to another argument, that women would sliirk any unpleasant duty they might have to perform in their administrative duties. Mr. Rowe quoted passages from St. Paul which Tie claimed showed that women both prayed and preached in St. Paul's days. The argument from Biblical allusion he claimed, failed entirely. For fifty-four years past the canons of the churoli provided for women taking thoir •proper share in the affairs of the parish. He claimed that according to the canons, women could be elected to a vestry, and stated that though this could be done thev were not allowed to vote for the election of the vestry. On the motion being put to tho meetling it was declared carried on the Voices. A division was asked for re- , Stilting in 30 clergy and 25 laity voting for the motion, and 20 clergy and 9 •iaity voting against it.

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