Show women and theol theology ou women in in the pulpit was the subject of discussion at adorning a morning lecture in n boston recently the drift of opinion ion among the speakers seemed to bir b that women should be allowed to preach the rev lorenzo haynes of waltham said eaid it is generally conceded that women are more religious religions than men certainly they form by far the larger proportion of church members in every church today they do a large part of the work take out that work and not a church eh U ach could stand As three fourths of the church members are women I 1 know of no reason why the same proportion of ministers should not be women mra jane L patterson of roxbury spoke of what is being accomplished for the development of women since tufts college opened all its departments part ments to them there is no circumscribing cum scribing annex she said no specifications fi ficat cati ions to hinder their progress A woman may enter as a man does it if she wishes to study electrical engineering she aha can have thorough instruction it if she desires a course in the divinity school the chance is given her the rev mary T whitney of cambridge brid 9 e could not give the sama account of harvard she had applied for ad mission to the divinity school and received from president dint eliot a letter of regret that her application u could not be favorably considered precedent being against it A miss spofford of sioux city told her hearers that she had built up a congregation in iowa and thought i that as a woman she enjoyed superior facilities of making her influence felt in the home life of her parishioners boston letter |