PREACHER AND WORKER.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1040, 1 February 1911, Page 9

PREACHER AND WORKER.

With the exception of the Into Miss C. H. Speuce,. few of our best known women have occupied the pulpit (says an Australian, writer). In' America no tower than three thousand are ordained preachers. All over the country'and in widely ! different churches women are going into the ministerial field. In the Unitarian, Univcrcalist, Congregational', and Methodist Churches women are. doing excellent work. Typical of (he new and progressive woman preachers'is, according to a New York contemporary, Mrs. C. Bartlett.Crane, pastor, writer, lecturer, and municipal housekeeper par excellence. . Beginning in a very poor parish, she introduced a, free kindergarten, a women's gytnnasiu.m, a school of household science, and ten cent dinners for working girls. For six years sjio has conducted a sanitary crusade, anil has introduced a system of slveet cleaning which saves thousands of dollars to her adopted city. She started penny savings banks anion;; working people, and. has instituted ' a great many other important reforms. Mrs. Crane is only one among many women preachers who / have become a real power in thb .land. : .