The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-10-14
SHOULDTHEWoMEN PREACH!

SHOULD THE WOMEN PREACH!
THE EcUafESTcAL CONFERENCES MS A
DERAIE Oy THE sCHJECT:
MOS. or tie Speakers Thossks shss tss
,I.uipsts Sheula. Ne Opes 60 Them Pre-.
viaea the Applicants HAD Proper oirts-
M. Atksnses Crsticsses che Chairssaa.
WASHINGTON. Oct. IL --Blship Il II. Harerovo
Of tho Methodist Episcopal lChurch. South.
-. Nashville. presided at tho opening OF the sixth
DAVIS session OF tho Ecumeniosl Methodist
Council. Tho order OF tho day was discus
slon OF Tho Church and Her Agencies" The
Roy, J. Travis. General Missionary Secretary
az tho Primitive Methodist Church. England.
read papor on 4" Tho Place and Power Of I.ay
Agency in tho Church." He spoke Of the 10.
man Catholic. tho Anglican. aud the Non.
Conformist doctrines. The carly Metholists
never talked about ministers" and "lay
preachers." but ." travelling preachers" and
local proachers." The faity have place In
The Church. Tho Church. "a such. allows OF
NO dist notion Of order or sex. Ministers ore
In tho Church, because they arc Christians. not
because they arc ministers. Lay agency has q
placs In the government OF the Church. A
Church which could not or, would not ind
cork for oil who had tho heart and the hand
AZ service was defective. When all Christians
ara at It oil at II. and Alwnys at IT," the cal
y,tion Of tho race will not be far distant.
The Rev. N. D. @. Ctawtorl OF New York
xas set down for an address On Tho Deacon.
"A, Movement" but owing to his illnoss
bishop Niude OF. Kansas treated tho subject.
IN some quarters tho movement had boen
viewed with alarm. It was said to resemble
,Pspa\ methods. Tie Roman Catholic Church
~s,txl nA>d< n L. A..
country He recognized tho holy duties OF
sothefhcod and OF the family. but what Of tho
women who were to mother Thousands Of the
homeless and tho helpless. There woro silly
men and ALLY women. 4 representative wo.
,p,nn could b trusted.
Tho Ilc.. DR.. w. D. Walters, Secretary OF tho
London Mission Wesleyan Methodist Church.
hoped that at the next Council woman would
be permitted to take her plnce upon tho plat
form and address the Conference. tAppluuse.1
Mr.. Atkinson. Mp. OF london believed In
women; married man. a. IN per cont. OF tile
Wesleyan ministers were. WIS bound 70 say no.
Thoy wore more Intelligent IN their Judgment
upon social questions. His own vito and her
sisters had been forty years leaders. ana 10
would rather be led by them than by the Pres.
ident. Of the Conference himself They would
hnvo more time to think OF what thoy wore
i In The Il" afternoon tho Rev. Dr. D. St. James
S Mor IN tSc shrc hs said ts
Protostnntism had generally failed to secure
hundred should enter the work where now one
WIS engaged. and women, must take promi-
. nept part In T. MN 4, could not deal with the
wom on AMI work in tho Church was by Tie same
Tss s oe nRaeSS ues The Rev. #a aar
man OF Belfast said woman might bring all OF
her to s as bt e Of her e
the homes: she might teach her son to preach:
she might perhaps. help her husband prepare
had anointed the Soldiers wounds. and as lis
life ebbed she poured into his ear the story Of
c nsr se va:
toiolow Blayatsky Of. Annie Besant2
greater part Of those who attended church
We're women. and she had demonstrated that
s But ct only CD beys S Eh asvaa Church
South. said that II was bold. bad: dangerous
ss5 hSS va iPs 4 aiyins
female Sr et snd msPe ms cfies Of
Woman was fret in the transgress!on. but also
In the front In the redemption. She was ex.
relation to the masculine church that. she aid
to the family: not one OF subordination. but
'Sssfk ss b. efBE ssEeg nSsS New York said tina.
ss: l assa ssSs !ss fsx
R.s ssS a. ": " 9sSsss! .Ssa 1T
Thsy BE- moters or
sSS H Rsx pHsssheMs1 Eothbotn south
Woman than he had him self Is SHOW lis face
Searcely had the words been uttered bsfors,a
sa tie hot thsGs S
man and Woman Do the same work he would
have made them alike. He. too. called atten-
10 olt sa rss e e se Dr.
:, Mr XtEinssn. N. r. taking the floor. reflect.
IS being unfair. and passed on to characterize
pr: Hass,ts argument as Logical }pggiery say;
hfs be had
th de question. tLsSshtssi WHY should not
such 81 On . woman as Baroness Burdett- coutts
VIZ he Rev. i. W. Bourne Of London said that
na 70 u fhs
Bourne, Tor preschinx u He had had answered. ySW
sss III sss va" sss s
Ss1tsd Yea ssT.sn Il su E'
would prevent Women from. being married in
oaurch: inaaInch as 1t forbids women to
,.fhs hoy: pr. Hood 81" the, A. N. z Zion
sS,s ss sf II s In Sss c% az that
er tho mans loot nor sboye lis head. but .Iss
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