“THE POORER SEX.”

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 47, 17 June 1914, Page 4

“THE POORER SEX.”

On* of th* finest speeches at the groat Baptist gathering in London last month, in connection with the sustentation fund, is considered to be that given by Mrs Philip Snowden. She said she did not regard women as the weaker sex, except mnscnlarly, but they were certainly the poorer sox. and she had heard stories that moved her almost to tears of what some oi tho very poorest of the Baptist women had done for the fund. The Church in all the ages had owed much to women. Was the Church going to repay the debt? There was in all the countries a women’s movement, but they had allowed their judgment as to the women’« m»r*ment to be clouded by the insanity of some associated with it.

The women’s movement was not represented by those who came to break np meetings. She charged such women, in the presence of God and man, with having, either in madness or in badness, soiled a pure and noble cause by the methods they used. The woman’s vote movement was only a part of the women’s movement. There was a great aspiration among women the world over for a larger life. The women who desired citizenship, she said —while the Chief Whip smiled—desired it in order that they could remove many evil things by bringing perfectly legitimate pressure to bear on slowmoving politicians, and she believed that in the Church the time was ripe for women deacons, for women on every committee, and ultimately they would see that the ministry of women would enrich the pulpit.