TOOK CALVIN’S PULPIT

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 205, 18 November 1927, Page 9

TOOK CALVIN’S PULPIT

NOTED WOMAN TO VISIT NEW ZEALAND MISS MAUDE ROYDEN By Cable. —Press Association. — Copyright. LONDON, Wednesday. The noted feminist and preacher, Miss Agnew Maude Hoyden, will leave England on December 28 for America. Afterwards she will spend three months in New Zealand and Australia, where she will lecture and preach in the principal cities, under the auspices of the British Commonwealth League.—A. and N.Z. Miss Agnes Maude Royden, one of the first women pastors in England, is a daughter of Sir Thomas Royden, chairman of the Cunard Line. She was educated at Cheltenham, and Lady Marg.aget Hall, Oxford. She gained her first experience of social work at a women’s settlement in Liverpool, and lectured in the Oxford University extension movement. She then took up work in connection with the suffrage movement, being for some years editor of “The Common Cause.” From 1920 she was assistant preacher in the City Temple, and on her resignation joined the Rev. Dr. Percy Dearmer in starting fellowship services at Kensington. Miss Royden is an eloquent speaker. She preached at Geneva as the first woman to occupy Calvin’s pulpit.