The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-08-21
Age Old Idea 10 Passing

Winona Lake, Ind, Aug. 16 (By the
Associated Press).-The age old idea
that men and women have different
spheres of interest and activity, mu-
tually exclsive, is rapidly passing, ac-
cording to Rev. M. Madeline Southard
Of Winfield, Kansas, president Of the
International Association of Women
Preachers, speaking at the annual
meeting of the organization here to-
night.
"A vast amount of sanitary all So
cial betterment has come since woma"
has taken an active interest in public
atfairs," she said. "Women in iegis-
lative and judicial positions have
taught US that women, married ol III.
married, carry the mother view i;:ta
these fields and that this is most d.
sirabie.
"In the past the bone, cons.d,l =
woman's exclusive sphere too oft2r
was turned over to her. Men sn;rAe@
responsibility beyond the pay cHcc
Sometimes women denied it to tnem
This is always distinct loss. Many
homes are ovcr-feminized. Childre
need the masculine touch upon their
growing spirits as well as the fcmi.
nine. Men need intimacy with little
children, women need the nerve-rcs'
that man who takes responsible '
in the home gives to them
"Also, in the past, men have quit,
oh f,,1l hn 6
,fe over to women. They have consiG
cred it the part of chivalry to play up
or play down to the standards of the
woman with whom they found them
selves, insisting tha tit was up tc
her.
at easily followed that men in this
country often turned religion over tc
women speaking as though it were a
kind of feminine attribute Without
doubt We have larger proportion OF
men today taking moral responsibility
squarely upon themselves than in CEN
turies gone by, and there is still plen-
v of room for improvement.
"While the mass of men may have
considered morality and religion to bo
peculiarly feminine qualities, ecclesi-
astical and theological matters al
ways have been kept carefully under
masculine control. There is much ur-
written history in the various denom-
nations of the effort of women to adj
minister funds raised wholly by wo-
men and for the women of the world
The woman's missionary societies
have ali grown up out of the complete
failure of the church to invite her wo-
men to bring their point of view into
the general counsels of the church.
They were bitterly opposed by many
in the beginning, but have compelled
men to recognize women's executive
ability, and have led to the place
where number of churches are plac-
ing women on their regular church
boards. Of course that is as it should
be. Both men and women are needed
to get the full understanding.
"Men have written all creeds, done
all the Interpreting of scripture,
greatly to the detriment of the church
and the world. Until rather recently
most theological schools have been
closed to women. Oxford, a little morc
than year ago, opened to women all
her schools except theology. That is
still too sacred for her to enter
Could the mother heart and brain Of
the race have had its rightful place
in creed and counsel, some sorry chap
ters of church history might have
been written differently. 1t was never
meant that either half of the human
race should rule alone in any realm of
life"