Methodist Men Give Women Greater Say in Running Church, 1918

From the editorial page of the Hickory Daily Record, May 14, 1918, S.H. Farabee, editor

Methodist women have been given full lay status and hereafter will have as much say-so in the running of the church as the men. Since the women are the best church workers, this recognition was fully merited.

The Record is in hopes the general conference will not reconsider its action in modifying the time limit of preachers in the several Methodist conferences. It ought to be possible to retain a minister when he fits well in a community and to move a minister where the misfit is apparent. What the brethren are striving for is the greatest service and that will be secured when a strong man is kept on a charge which he is developing his greatest usefulness.