CHURCH LADIES KICK
OUT PREACHER By Tony Dawe.
"Suffer not a
woman to teach nor to usurp LAY PREACHER Douglas Coull was unrepentant yesterday after his refusal to let women preach to him had cost him his job. The flock he had nurtured for four years rose up and cast him out in a final showdown over their three lady deacons. [?]
In vain the
64-year-old Scots-born evangelist quoted the words of the Apostles which put
women in their place Now Mr Coull, married with two teenage daughters, has lost not only his pulpit but also the manse that went with the Congregational Church at Dulverton, Somerset. QUARRELLED. The running battle between the minister and the lady deacons, led by church treasurer Mrs Marjorie Trelford, came to a head when they insisted on running church jumble sales. "That's not what a church is for," * said Mr Coull. Mrs Trelford, who works in a Dulverton cafe, said: "He just quarrelled with everybody." So a meeting of church members was called and the chairman of the Congregational Federation the Rev Elsie Chamberlain, [?] arrived to hear their complaints against the minister. It ended with a vote to sack him. And when Mr Coull complained that the vote [?] was rigged, a second meeting was held, on legal advice, [?] which confirmed his dismissal. * "So, after making a whip of ropes, (Jesus) drove all those with the sheep and cattle out of the temple, and he poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. And he said to those selling the doves: "Take these things away from here! Stop making the house of my Father a house of merchandise!"" (John 2:15,16). Note: The writer of the "Little Scroll" has added question marks [?] to expose their sins.
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