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Note that this entry is a product of its time, and should be read in that
context. Footnotes have been omitted to make the text easier to follow. Also
note that scanning and editing may have introduced a few errors into the
transcription. Because of these errors, if you need to use this information in
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This continues the entry under "Women" in the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
This paragraph originally appeared as a footnote.
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In the olden times before the Reformation in England various religious
communities absorbed a large number of the surplus female population, and in
High Church and Roman Catholic circles many ladies still enter various
sisterhoods and devote their lives to teaching the young, visiting the poor and
nursing the sick. In the Church of England the only office which remained open
to women was the modest one of churchwarden, and this office is not infrequently
filled by women. The Convocation of Canterbury in 1908 refused by a majority, of
two to admit women to parochial church councils, though qualified persons of the
female sex may vote for parochial lay representatives on the church council. In
the Independent Churches there are fewer restrictions. Among the
Congregationalists women have equal votes on all questions and may become
deacons or, even ministers; Miss Jane Brown has been recognized as pastor of
Brotherton Congregational Church, Yorkshire, and Miss L. Smith as pastor of that
in Cardiff, and in the Methodist Church women frequently act as local preachers.
The same equality and share in religious work is accorded to women by the
Baptists,, the Society of Friends and the Salvation Army, the success of which
is largely due to them. In Unitarian congregations in the United States and
Australia many women have been appointed ministers, and in England the Rev.
Gertrude von Petzold held in 1910 the post of minister of the Narborough Road
Free Christian Church, Leicester.
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