The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-08-05
WOlNEN PREACHERS
TO HOLD CONVENTION
The International Association Will As
semble at winona Lake, Ind,
Aug. 1917.

/ Winfield, Kan, Aug ) by the As
sociated Press ~ The attitude women
preachers should take on the problems
of the day and the status Of women in
the various religious denominations
| will be among the questions discussed
at the annual assembly of the Inter
national Association Of Women Preach
ers at Winona Lake, Ind, Aug, l5l7,
| IL was announced to-day by Rev Nj.
Madeline Southland, president.
| Rev. Southland will address the con
lvention on "a Sphere or Hemisphere,
and other speakers will include DR.. Lee
Starr, DIR. Sara D. Wise, Rev. Ida Her
rick and Rev. Carolyn Hosford.
"The assembly will discuss the
status Of women in all the denomina
tions, her place in preaching, in coun
sci, in administration and methods of
desirable positions in church work to
young women so that they will not of
necessity be drawn off into other
fields,v Rev. Southland said.
The sessions will be open TO lay
men and clergy alike, it was stated
Credit was given to the Society of
Friends tQuakersl for what was
termed its advanced position on sex
equality, by Rev Southland in discus
sing the progress of women in the vari-
GUS religious denominations.
THE Society of Friends, which arose
in England almost three hundred years
ago took the amazing stand that there
should be sex equality" che said mo
church has had so large a proportion
OF preaching women Women were
the first Friends preachers In London.
Oxford, Cambridge and in America
They were among the early martyrs Of
the church. Perhaps we owe woman
suffrage indirectly to the Friends. SUI
san B. Anthony was reared in the ten |
cts Of that church and accustomed to
freedom Of women. When she found |
that in educational and even temper |
ance meetings women were supposed to |
keep silence her wrath was aroused |
land the end was the Susan b. An |
thony amendment.
''The Disciples Of Christ and the |
Christian church, with headquarters at |
Dayton, O., has always given apportu.
nifty for women to preach. Some Of its |
women were preaching and holding re- /
markable REVEALS in pre- Revolutionary
DAYS.
Interest attaches to the Methodist /
Protestant church iii this matter be-
cause il was TO this church that Anna
Shaw went for ordination when the
Methodist Episcopal church refused her
license. After stormy controversy
she was ordained by the New York con
ference In 1884 their general confer.
ence held this action unconstitutional
But in this the states have a consid.
cradle measure Of authority. Some
went on and ordained women, some
objecting. The climax came, when in
1892 Rev, Eugenia st. John was sent
A. a ministerial delegate from Kan
sas, and two women lay delegates with
her There was sharp division over
seating these women in the general
conference in which the women won
Dut. In 1900 DR.. Lee Anna Starr was
seated as ministerial delegate and
ssked To preach before the whole gen
raj conference. A few conferences still
.efuse- TO ordain women but in most
asses they have equal rights.
The Salvation Army recognized sex ,
quality from the very beginning The ,
ounders. William and Catherine Booth, .
we're both great preachers and most Of ;
heir eight children became preachers. .
)ne of them. Evangeline Booth, is CON- :
nander of the army in America to-day :
During the war certain organizations /,
ave definite orders that no women be !
to do their religious work. l
I is of interest to note that the or /
of which the men at the I
ront speak with warmest praise is I
his one whose highest officer is a wom- a
n, and in which women are more large v
= used fol religious work than any I
Their. :
"'rhe liberal churches, Unitarian and y
ordain women. The Bat a
e Hymn of the Republic was written
y a Unitarian minister, Julia Ward Il