| Show WHY WHY- Women Preachers Preacher Want More Women Pre Preachers chers When Its doctrines Ines are expounded by women preachers men will be more eager enger to attend church according to Miss il M. Madeline Southard president fo to the International Association of ot Women Preachers Speaking at the convention of ot the association nt alt the Jackson Jaclson Boulevard Christ Christian In n church Chicago Miss Southard men I preachers of feminizing the church She gave grave Frances as her authority au au- nu- nu I for tor the thc claim that women preachers were needed to interest m men fl n fl In the work of th tho church One still hears hears' occasionally that the ordination of women will feminize the church said Miss Southard But I that Is Impossible for a men meu I of ot the pulpit has alread already accomplished It Frances Willard said concerning this Men have been heen preaching for tor 2000 years ears and a large majority of at the converts have ha been women Suppose Suppose Sup Sup- pose that women should share the preaching power ml might ht It not be reasonably rea rea- supposed that the ihie majority of ot the converts con under their administration tion would be men We Ve women who preach Invite a comparison of the number of ot strong I thoughtful men In our audiences with the number found In the average au au- I Miss Mills Southard quoted from SS Peter Peter Peter Pe Pe- Pe- Pe ter Paul and Luke as authorizing women to preach and to prophesy She declared that men sought to bar women from the pulpit for tor selfish rea rca sons eons Men even en clergymen never nevel get e excited ex cited when women scrub their office floors or wash their soiled clothes for a livelihood she said It Is only when t women men approach the more remunerative five tive or more moie desirable vocations that lively fears of the disruption of the home are expressed Since the preachers preacher's quest Is the discovery ery and anti the development of personality personality per per- personality women's training has preeminently preeminently preeminently pre pre- pre pre- eminently fitted her for It Through the ages man was busy with wars and the hunt of material and commercial values while to the woman was consigned consigned con con- signed all developing human per personalities ties through the most critical years ears This Thill child care has peculiarly fitted her when educated along all lines to understand and deal with the up grown-up children of at church and community |
