The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-12
WCf11el1 Preachers
 and Pastors

In Chicago Mrs Cora l.. V. Richmond
 has been pastor of religious society
 for nearly thirty years. Some of her
 disc0urses expound philosophy not
 unlike the teachings of Swedenborg.
 Once in a sermon on the spiritual sig
 nificance of the natural attraction be-
 tween the sexes she said that the soul
 began it's revolutions in matter as I
 spiritual unit. This unit was divided
 into halves and each half sent out
 separately to gain experiences on us
 own account Thus the complete souis
 evolution could be hastened. some times in the earth life the two halves meet, then there Is comparativeiy happy marriage. provided one or the other half is not already welded to some third party's half At the eno of all earthly existence the twain come together permanently as one ana are happy ever after. Here is surely com | fort for those who believe in soul mates.
 Lately a friend who had not seen Mrs Richmond in many years said to l her. You don't grow bit older Inc | answer was:
 "oh, no, don't let myself grow ] old" .4s 1 The religious denomination known distinctively as Christian was among the first to admit properly qualifed
 women to its pulpits as ordained
 preachers. The youngest woman pas tor in America. a girl only IS years old, belongs to this sect. She is Rev. Myrtle
 B. Parke of Ramsey. H. She prepared for the ministry at Eureka College. She is giriish looking. but very much Tn earnest. She preached in the namsey Church some time ago. but left 1t to attend Eureka Coiiege. Immediately
 after coming out of scnool she received the call to ,ne Ramsey pulpit.
 It is odd that with scores of ordained
 women preachers in America, tn all
 Europe and Great Britain there Is only one, Rev. Gertrude von Petzoid. Miss von Petzoid IS one af the most hisniy educated pastors inf all Europe, how ever. Sne spent some nine years study ing for the ministry. She is an M A. Of Edinburgh and a graduate of the theological course of Mancnester Coi- lege. oxford. studying also consider abe time in Germany. From her cnfid- hood Miss won Petzold was so devout and sainlIy in her ii1e and so eloquent and persuasive in her Sunday school talks that even in conservative Eng l land she was urged to study for the ministry. She is pastor of Unitarian Church in Leicester. England. It raised something of a stir Tn the kingdom wnen recently Miss von Petzoid per | formed her first marriage service. She ! has a rare, sweet face, wi.h mouth | that turns up at the corners. In her I first sermon at the Leicester Church i she said:
 Look at the world around you! Look I at the men and women selling their souls for pleasure, for money. ever ready to take advantage of one another, | to make the best of d worldly bargain
 in their spare moments giving tnem- selves up to their passions. degrading | themselves body and soul"
 In most of the Protestant denomina- tions, notably the Methodist Episco- | pal, women serve as evangelists, pro- | noting revivals, which they do with | zeal. In this work they seem peculiar | ly gifted. One young Methodist wo. l man who Is singularly successful as an I evangelist Is Miss Ruth Warren. She | turned her back upon a business career | of brilliant promise, also upon the ca' reer of marriage, to enter on the lowly, hard working life of the Methodist dea~ I coness in slum settlements. But she
 developed speaking gift, of rare pow | CT and persuasiveness, so consecrated herself to preaching to the multitude, who listen to her joyfully r
 Charlotte Van Beck