In the London Inquirer is a timely word:
But it is in the religious sphere that the genius of woman finds its fittest development. The Church has never yet duly appreciated this fact, or utilized it with wisdom and intelligence. The Church has ever been dominated over by men, many of them of a hard, worldly, dogmatic type, utterly unfitted to set forth the gracious message of the Gospel; and never will its gentle and loving character be appreciated until a more devout and unselfish spirit possesses the ministry. The quiet, kindly bearing of an intelligent woman is much more in harmony with Christianity than all the learning or the logic of your dry theologian. Indeed, the notion is spreading, that one of the chief obstacles to the Gospel in our day is your elaborate theology; and that preaching of a sectarian or doctrinal sort is doing more evil than good. In all our congregations there are numbers of devout influential women repelled by it, and hungering for a truer exposition of the Kingdom of God. Amongst them, the minister who has tact and sympathy would find his most effective helpers.
