3 JUNE 1949, Page 18

SIII,—If membership of Parliaments, Town Councils, of university and college

staffs is irrespective of sexual differences, much more should the Christian Church seek to transcend the question of sex in its appointments to its ministry. Not to do so is to stress differences of function between men and women in such a way as to compromise their unity of status in Christ.

Why is maleness thought to be so appropriate, and femaleness so inappropriate, to the preaching of the Gospel ?—Yours faithfully,