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Divorce, Birth Control Miss Maude Rayden, the preacher the Guildhouse, Eceleston Square, London, who has been visiting China, and who will leave Shanghai this week to complete her tour of the world, expressed the idea, when she arrived, that this part of her trip to the Far Eust was to be a holiday after her strenuous lecture tours in America, Australia and New Zealand. Nevertheless, Judging by the number of lectures she has del: vered here urd those she mentions having spoken at during, her short stay in Peking, it does not appear that she kept to her original intention, And there is no doubt that the Iectures M'sa Rayden has given here have been very popular and succéssful. Miss. Royden is a woman of great personality, possessor of a delightful sense of humour, and fine powers of expressing hor views has been' paid with the -idea -of ago and Use margin between income learning rather than expounding. and expenditure, where such exists Miss Royden'x Career Miss Roxden, who is the daugh-point. at all, is approaching
ter of the late Sir Thomas Rayden, The Good 4 was educated at Cheltenham Col-pre-war days, money was ens Jege and from thence went on to made in Shanghai and in a very Lady Mary Hall, Oxford. Here she leisurely fashion; the foreign (in said she was not too happy, al-which we included the Japanese and though she felt it was wonderful to Hussian) population was'then con joe at Oxford: there was too much' paratively small, rud the profits repression. For three years after earned by the community as a leaving the University she worked in whole were therefore divided the' Vitoria Women's Settlement in Amongst a correspondingly lest Liverpool, her birth-town, and in the number of people; while land values, country parish of Luffenhom.
In rents, cost of clothing and general 1908 she joined the National Union necessities were probably from 25 of Women's Suffrage Societies, of to 50 per cent. Jess than they are which she became a member of the to-day.
Hence' the need for Executive Comm'ttee the same year. vas not then so grimly Until, 1914 Bliss Rayden edited the is today.
"Common Cause," writing chiefly It was customary in those good on economic, ethical and religious old times for "Taipans" to retire Jaxpects of the women's movement. ata fairly early age on an saured From 1917 until three years later income with the prospect of being Mins Rayden acted as assistant bought out altogether within a preacher at the City Temple, London. very few years by those whom they vhen she founded, with Dr. Percy Tad left behind, who in torn had Dearmer, the Fellowship services at every reason to hope that they Kensington, now transferred to the! would be in- a position to repeat Guildhouse, Eeeleston Square, of The process at an early date. which Miss Rayden is now minister.
'M'ss Rayden has made several Buying Out the Taipan lecture tours, and this year she has And here arises a problem some-been making her tour under the what without the scope of this unggomonts of the commi article but which may be touched the Y.M.GA. and the Y.W.CA upon in passing. It would be me teresting to know how much money has to be remitted from China to
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