AMAZING SCENES

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 106, 7 May 1934, Page 13

AMAZING SCENES

A WOMAN MINISTER

There wcro amazing scenes at the Pa'rtick Congregational Church in Glasgow when th 6 Bey. Vera Kenmure, Scotland's first woman minister, preached her last sermon to a congregation of 1000 a few weeks ago. "When tho doors were opened there was a wild rush to enter the church, and an official bad to appeal to tho crowd to be move- orderly, or lie would have to send for tho police,', states, a correspondent. Women lost their hats in the stampede, and pver 500 people were locked out Many people wept during the sermon. Mrs. Kenmuro's resignation was brought about—after a five years' ministry at the Partick Church —by a section of the congregation taking oxception to her continuing as their minister after tho birth of her baby early this year, . The principle involved in tho resignation of Mrs.: Kenmuro will it is expected, be brought up at the annual meeting of the Society for the Ministry of Women, to tie held at St. Albans on Juno 9. Dr; Maude Roydon' will preside. ■ Other married women ministers are pursuing their vocation in the pastorate as well as bringing up their children. At Wolverton Congregational . Church, Buckinghamshire, -tho Rev. Constance G'oltmau is co-ministeiy t with .her husband.' She has a family.of throe young children.' . '

The Rev. Jtrs. Living-Taylor, who is also 'a co-minister with her husband at

tho Claytpn-Le-Moors Baptist Church, asserts that because she is a mother she can be a better minister. '