WOMAN AS MINISTER
TEN YEARS’ HARD WORK. The Rev. Mary Collins, the first and only woman minister in the East End of London, recently announced her resignation as minister of North Bow Congregational Church. After ten years of effort in a poor neighbourhood, Miss Collins says, she finds the strain too great to continue. She intends io remain at the church till the end of the year, when she will take a rest before going to any new appointment. Miss Collins says she has been feeling the strain of her work for some time, and the crucial point was reached when a number of her church workers left the district. In this neighbourhood, she says church work is much handicapped by the fact that when the younger people have reached an age when they might take up positions in church management they usually get married and go to the suburbs. Miss Collins was the first woman to be ordained to the Congregational ministry.
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Southland Times, Issue 22188, 2 December 1933, Page 6
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163WOMAN AS MINISTER Southland Times, Issue 22188, 2 December 1933, Page 6
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