SHOULD WOMEN SMOKE?
SOME CHURCHES EMPHATIC ENGLISH LADY PREACHER BANNED CHICAGO AND BOSTON PROTESTS. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Jan. 2, 8.45 p.m.
A. and N.Z. New York, Jan. 1. It is announced that the Methodist Episcopal Church Women’s Home Missionary Society branches at Chicago and Boston have cancelled engagements with the English lady preacher, Miss Maude Royden, to address them on the ground that she smokes and advocates a companionate marriage. Miss Royden arrived recently for an extensive lecture tour.
The Chicago ladies pointed out “that smoking is not the general practice in this country and is not done at all by the women of our churches.”
Miss Royden replied: “I do not care a button whether I smoke while in America, but certainly I do not concede it is a matter of religious importance.” Her tour, however, is otherwise popular, 350 applications from various religions organisations to hear her having to bo declined for lack of time.
It is stated that Miss Royden, who for some time officiated at the City Temple, London, will visit New Zealand and Australia at the close of her American tour.
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 January 1928, Page 11
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