Female Divines

Few religious denominations admit women to their ministries. But some women wish Theological training before becoming deaconesses or taking up religio-social work. Last week Yale Divinity School announced that next autumn it will enroll ten female students. The Divinity School will not house the women in its expensive new Georgian quadrangles. They will live in the town and perhaps get a special dormitory later.*

* Preachers were warned last week against "certain unmarried, middle-aged women who are prone to be somewhat hysterical," by Psychiatrist William Samuel Sadler who spoke before the International Council of Religious Education in Chicago. Said he: ''Nearly all the scandals with which our clergymen are connected, and often the innocent victims of those scandals, come from cases of this kind. Women of this type often get a personal affection for ministers, and strange delusions follow. In dealing with a woman of this type, the pastor had better have his wife within sight."

But the most publicized preacher scandals involve young women. In Muncie, Ind. three weeks ago Rev. G. Lemuel Conway was indicted for attempted rape of an 18-year-old. In Marshall, Mich, last week Rev. George Lyon, Baptist, was arrested, charged with impregnating Mary Thomas, 17-year-old farm girl.

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