Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-10-11
Entry of Woman Into
Ministry Fulfllment
OF Marriage Condition
BY Margcry Rex.

ly inurmured dozen years ago to
a pleading suitor was accompanied
with an If"
IF and it's implication was full
lSFjustified when Mrs. May Lind
say Haight, at the West Side mis-
sion, before a council of clergym On
was examined for ordination into
the ministry. Mrs. Haight's tiG-
lively religious career as evancc- |
1ist.', carried on with the consent
Of her husband and family, wlll
have, its elimination when she
passes over the prejudice Of cen
turtles into the pulpit.
Ever since, AS a girl OF fifteen,
she felt the call to religious duty,
Mrs. Haight has looked forward
TO, the opportunity that Will be hers
When ordained.
IT was forced into business ga
feeE early in lifeaand after work
iilg@a few Years one morning felt
I5.hiust give up to serve God. II
could stay at my desk no longer
-When@T became. q. member of the
Baptist church I felt it,, and it was
growing stronger. | couldn't find
Il theological school that would let
me enter. for, owing to i'll health.
l had lacked sufficient previous
education. worked in missions
and rescue societies. nevertheless.
Her Chance Came.
Suddenly from Long Lake, in
the Adirondacks, came my chance
like thunderbolt. A minister who
had heard of my ambitions sent
for me to help him with a two
weeks meeting.
He expected me to preach. /
said l couldn't. But | had to, and
felt at first that God had brought
me there to make a fool of me.
Later / knew He had sent me there
to trap me into His service, since
no effort of mine to serve Him the
way | wanted to seemed success
full.
.'Mr. Haight was a deacon in
| Baptist church in Troy that had
invited me to come and preach
there. He was bitterly opposed to
thhe idea of my coming. | had
singer travelling with me, and fl
| nally the pastor had to call off our
visit. In the meantime Mr.. Haight
had been Modified somewhat, by
nS,lyaI tf ha yyntt11v't
If the pastor thought it was the
Lords will that l come, so he
agreed. This was three months
later.
C0urtship Began.
II stayed five weeks and our
courtship began. | did not know
that the intense admiration I felt
for him was love at the time.
when he asked me to marry
him | said yes along with it,
meaning that | must follow my
call in spite of everything. He
agreed We both knew the respon-
sibilities we were facing. We
planned our home and our family.
We both loved children and we
wanted ours. I wanted to be both
wife and mother.
when little Fred now ten, was
! II baby of 20 months l took him
with me on my evangelistic tours
was with him every minute ex-
cept the time ] talked. Then had
/ a reliable woma nto look after him
for that short time. | had an old
steamer trunk that when opened
up, had curtains and all the baby
fixings like a pretty bassinet, He
never lacked comforts or atten-
ton.
4 Doesn't Copy Sunday.
81 don't want people to look on
me as a masculine woman. | am
not trying to he a copy of Billy
4 SUNDAY. | want to carry the word
of God az the voice of prophecy.
81 speak to men and women
both. | have them together and
as separate audiences l talk to
men as wife to husband, as a
mother to a son and as a sister to
a brother | am just a woman and
don't pretend to be anything else.
"Now, of course, we come to the
matter of St Pauls words: Let
your women keep silent in the
churches; for it is not permitted
them to speak; but they are COM
i manded to be under obedience as
also saith the law
est Paul said some other things,
too. The same chapter in Corin-
thians also tells men: Let there
be no interpreter; let him keep si-
lent in church, and let him speak
to himself or to God
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