REV. L. H. HUNT REPIES.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 195, 19 August 1927, Page 6

REV. L. H. HUNT REPIES.

<To the Editor.)

Your cmnespondenL "Os5 V 3„ r ?* k * U,T «« explanation of £ but not identical" Th»t .i. t w *'M «uv,,i had no direct reference *M, r economical or legal In own I laid it Lm-. lo *>v mental a*iom and as the basis of all our discusS it^ ofwomcn that Thera | s neither male nor ESf all one in Christ Jesus." TuftJ? «v means anything, that J„„* ?***> «« dutie. and privileges «,,•« her •SKJLJ2? I^! avenue of spiritual culture » that distinctions erf WI i° - *° i: domain of her Hie as a * might seem that after we LvetLSSf; * we are logically compelled to openTjS in church and Stat* to the «'2 S j does not necessarily folio*, reason Uu,l other considerations eon?folSf compel us to follow other lines as 1 the ordw already established V the CTmnch. Another *! probably the most weighty of aS/ifyL J""' *? emphasised in this fr 1 Srr? y ®* d fitted for certain positions is fcf. gmaJf in the best interest.* of herself and of«L that she should not tie encouiaaid *T 2' * upon them. Th• to J* a century a woman does occupy t ion a Christian pulpit, as Mia U i S-T 1 " IS now doing in England, doe* act ■wTZT We might with equal truth aay some men we know are good at housework therefore this door - wider to the men. It is not true. «TI!: correspondent suggests, that jLZ/K especially we Jireechej*, deny to right to use her influence fa , responsibility in the He tft oiiU. willing lo open every door to far that will admit her to positions for which she itoudtteil and to which she feels callxfl W true womanly instinct*. This is n o t Um result of prejudice on the part of the men. it»tinresult of mature- reflection on the part of godly men who are deeply oonoeriwd WiUi the welfare of women and the good of tl*. Church. Personally, 1 deeply rejoine in tlw great contribution that women are now auLkiiir in *o many department* of lift, and 1 led that we have still a long way to go fa Hsmoviiig the legal and other disabilities from hervnath but I also maintain that the greater of women hitherto rcooided brloof entirely to departments of life for whkfc «fa is peculiar ly adapted as a woman. Id# iwt wish t<o continue this correspondent*, at thi» matter has been sufficiently ventilated ahtatlr. LBOKA3U) H. HD.I.