A BISHOP'S WIFE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 113, 8 November 1913, Page 15

A BISHOP'S WIFE.

The next speaker, Mrs. Paget, wife of the. Bishop of Stepney, was one of the j big successes of the day. Tall and graceful, with a frail but penetrating voice, she contended that women had come to a new sex consciousness — the realisation of sisterhood and of womanhood! They claimed the full expression of personality. If their majority in the State was an uneasy fact, . their majority in the Church was a truisrtt, yet their loyalty had often been dismissed by some 6uch phrase as "nothing but a lot of women." That was because they had been taken to be inarticulate, without steadfast convictions, or opinions, as ha.ving no contribution worthy of serious . consideration beyond that of the collection or giving of alms and punctual attendance. The Church had scarcely used the woman's point of view in moral questions. . They saw and knew their faults, but she believed this newly awakenad sense of responsibility was one of the greatest moral forces ever placed at the service of the Church. To get the generous response tq, its appeal the Church must acknowledge that God's vocation for, woman, was not one but many.- "-11 God himself chose the 1 co-operation of a ■ woman in His plan for the redemption of the world, there could be no loss of dignity in seeking the co-operation of women in grave questions or for serious work."