WOMEN & CHURCH COUNCILS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2109, 28 March 1914, Page 11

WOMEN & CHURCH COUNCILS.

HOW FAB ELIGIBLE? Tlio action of the Bishop of Wo-rcesler about the position' of women on Church councils has crcated n«ieh interest in tho inland counties ot England among thoso who are conceni-ed in fonvardiftg a similar reform in t)re jjondon diocese. Tho Bishop Jia-s announced tliat tho scheme of representation far tho rttridecanal conferences for Worcester permits tho election of women members, and he lias promised to deal with tho general question of women's placo «ft Church councils at the Diocesan Conference in July. In the London diocese, it seems, woman aro not eligible for membership on any of the represents tive Church bodies, aad a resolution calling for tho removal of tho sos bar has been passed by the Hammersimtli Kuridecanul Cpaiference. oil tho motion of Mr. Holford Knight. This resolution has_ been communicated to tsach of the ruride canal conferences in London, and wil lcome before them at their first meetings during nest month. But as theso bodies have just been re-elected for a period of tlireo years it is elcar that unless tho women at® to be 'further -excluded for several years tho Bishop of London must take action in the matter. The Bishop of Kensington has expressed himself as being warmly in sympathy with the Hammersmith resolution, and it is felt that {jiiurchwom-eii themselves in the, London dioceso should take some collcctive action to. make their, desires appreciated in episcopal quarters.