Dr. Ramsay Explains It

When aeked about the exclusión of women delegates from the M. E. general conference now in session in New York, Rev. Dr. Ramsay said : ''I don't understand that a msjority of the conference are unfavorable to the idea of women eitting as de'.egates. A few are but not m&ny. But our church is governed by a constitution, modeled after the U. S. constitution. That constitution was made when women were less prominent than they are now in church and reform work, and there is a grave question about the oonstitutionality of admitting women. I expect that the constitution will be changed in that respect. However, the general conference corresponds to our U. S congress. It has large powers and resjonsibilities. If the women delegates were admitted, and the annual conferences refused to sanction any work done by the general conference as unconslitutional, there would be trouble. It is best to wait. As I understand it, the maio opposition to admitting the women delegates was on this ground."