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This statement was the nub of a survey, "Woman's Status in Protestant Churches," published last week by the Federal Council of Churches. It was based on a questionnaire sent to 5,380 active churchwomen of eight denominations (Northern Baptist, Congregational-Christian, Disciples of Christ, Episcopal, United Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyterian, Quaker...
Nearly three-fourths of the churchwomen answering the Council's questionnaire wanted women to serve on church boards, have more representatives. A scattering thought women should serve only when there was a shortage of men. One-sixth were opposed to their sex holding church office. The latter group's reasons: tradition (said a Baptist: ". . . positively undignified and altogether unsuitable"), a feeling that the Lord's Supper would mean less if administered by a woman...
...actors in the Drama of Missions, Philadelphia churchwomen sewed 1,300-odd costumes which were sent to Virginia to be dyed by students in a mountain mission school. From missionary outposts of the Church, some 40 Episcopal converts and workers went to Philadelphia to appear in the pageant. A professional director of civic and patriotic shows, Percy Jewett Burrell of Boston, wrote the Drama of Missions...
Yokels gaped and the nation's bustled churchwomen bawled righteous indignation when Little Egypt undulated her brown, pneumatic belly at Chicago in 1893. No more, no less rowdy than the Columbian Exposition, Chicago's Century of Progress Exposition last week found itself the scene of a turpitudinous squabble which threatened to take on national proportions...
...barn. Before the picture, big eyes ogling, tongue hanging out in an expression of lugubrious passion, stood a buxom Holstein cow. This whimsy was captioned "Her Hero." Motorists grinned. Advertising men, seeing in it a burlesque of sex-appealing tobacco advertisements, thought it smart. But to the churchwomen of Willow Glen, a suburb of San Jose, Calif., it was the epitome of bad taste, an affront to California womanhood. Last week they went before their town council, demanded that the objectionable picture, which greeted Willow Glen's children on their way to school, be removed. The Council summoned...