Women Fail to Gain Voice in Presbyterian Assembly

1921

By CARL VICTOR LITTLE,
United Press Staff Correspondent

WINONA LAKE. Ind., May 20.— Women must keep their seats in the "amen corners" and remain Without a voice in church government.

The hand that rocks the cradle may rule the temperate world, but the authority in the spiritual world must remain with the men.

Agitation for women's rights which has placed them in the legislative halls and allowed them to don the black robes of the judiciary, has failed thus far to make an impression in the conduct of ecclesiastical affairs.

Returns from the plebiscite taken among the million and a half members of the Presbyterian church, and reported to the general assembly here today, showed that the movement to allow women to sit as commissioners in the assembly was beaten decisively.

—Oakland Tribune, Oakland California, May 20, 1921, page 11.