MISS MAUDE ROYDEN
ROYDEN, AGNES MAUDE, Assistant Preacher at the City Temple, 1918-20;
Founder with Dr. Percy Dearmer of the Fellowship Services at Kensington;
b. 1876, y.d. of late Sir Thomas Royden, 1st Bart. of Frankby Hall,
Birkenhead. Educ.: Cheltenham Ladies' College; Lady Margaret Hall,
Oxford. Worked at the Victoria Women's Settlement, Liverpool, for three
years and then in the country parish of Luffenham; Lecturer in English
Literature to the Oxford University Extension Delegacy; joined the
National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, 1908; on Executive
Committee, 1908; Edited the _Common Cause_ till 1914; wrote and spoke
chiefly on the economic, ethical, and religious aspects of the Women's
Movement; resigned executive, 1914.
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CHAPTER VI
MISS MAUDE ROYDEN
. . . _their religion, too (i.e. the religion of women), has a mode
of expressing itself, though it seldom resorts to the ordinary
phrases of divinity.
Those "nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love," by
which their influence is felt through every part of society,
humanising and consoling wherever it travels, are their theology.
It is thus that they express the genuine religion of their minds;
and we trust that if ever they should study the ordinary dialect of
systematised religion they will never, while pronouncing its harsh
gutturals and stammering over its difficult shibboleths, forget
their elder and simpler and richer and sweeter language.
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