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Show Womea. and Their Pastors. I Over an instance where the good name of a Protestant clergyman ia 1 c dragged into a divorce case, the New York Sun makes these remarks: ? "Clergymen usually are brought mora into relation with women than with men parishioners. In the first place, women are more numerous than men in I churches and they are apt to have more I reverence for their pastors and to hold. I their judgment in higher respect. They I are the freer in their intercourse with their pastors because in their esteem f the man of God is a being apart and they can imagine no evil of him. "It is, therefore, requisite that a pastor pas-tor should always guard most carefully careful-ly the dignity and solemnity of hi3 profession pro-fession in his relations with a woman parishioner. Private interviews inter-views between a pastor and a woman parishioner 'on matters relating to the church' or to get advice on personal affairs' ought, obviously, to be kept by the clergyman strictly official in tone and character. If the clergy forfeits 1 feminine respect, the church is gone indeed." ' f |