WOMEN IN THE CHURCH.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18225, 19 October 1922, Page 6

WOMEN IN THE CHURCH.

MODERN TENDENCIES. ARCHBISHQP'S PREDICTION. NO MORE RELIGIOUS THAN M£N l»X TELIGBAPH.—OWN CORKE^|?OND)«Ii.] CHRISTCHURCH. Wed ne «, w '. "General Synod,'! said Archbishop ;v Julius at the opening of the AnglicanSynod, "Has adopted the principle - affirmed by the Lambeth Conference that '"'-' women should be admitted to those coon- . cils of the Church to which laymen are admitted and upon equal terms. We jus told that women will take the place men in all the councils as they have al. ■ ready in the worship and service of the v Church. I do not think ho. The women vof our day are extremely anxious to as6ert" :? '-- their independence of convention and ,V restraint. Everyone knows that young •• girls are more impatient to control. %n f'9". boys. Women are not by lature ia ow , - religious than men. although the narrow '- scope of their interests and occupation* C.' V V has made it seem so. "Now that these aie widened her »t». j titude to religion will change and ber steadying influence upon society will «fo. ■/. cline. for when a woman drives she drives recklessly. To this tendency we owe, in '• extreme cases, the modern woman andher works, her novels, and her defiance • .' of truth, beauty, and goodness. I n all J thiu there is place neither for surprise h '■ I; nor despair. None of us enter upon new conditions without risk of fall and none i fall without hope of recovery. "Women will be again what they have i ! been —the salt of the earth, but it ■-' likely enough that for some time to come men will take their places in the worship '&'■ of the Church." r ./