ORDAINED WOMEN

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 76, 30 March 1928, Page 7

ORDAINED WOMEN

IN THE NEAR FUTURE. Bishop Says Paul's Plan Must Be Altered. WOULD BENEFIT CHURCH. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright) (Received 10 a.m.) LONDON, March 29.

"What Paul said about women cannot justly be regarded as determining the Church's policy for all time," says Bishop Weldon, commenting on the objections to the ordination of women.

It was idle to assert that women's function was to be good wives and mothers. Women not only outnumbered men, but many men shrank from marriage because it was expensive.

The problem of- finding careers for educated women would become ever more insistent if the State treats women and men on a basis of equality.

The Church would not always be able to keep women' on a basis of inferiority. There was not sufficient reason for denying them Holy Orders. Woman's ministry would benefit the Church spiritually, especially when male candidates were diminishing.

The time was coming, and was perhaps not far distant, when women's ordination would be an accomplished (act.

The bishop's reference is no doubt to 1 £orinthians xiv., v. 31, 35. Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law. 35: And if they will learn anything let them ask then: husbands at home: for it is a shame for women' to speak in the church."