Mrs. J. Dabney Day took a leading role at 1926 Northern Baptist Convention, advocating for W.B. Riley's attempt to exclude Harry Emerson Fosdick's Park Avenue Baptist Church.
T.T. Shields commended her bold stand in his paper the Gospel Witness. Note especially his concluding plea.
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"One very interesting and moving feature of the debate was the appearance on the platform of Mrs. Day, of Los Angeles, Calif. She was given five minutes and pleaded with passion and power that the delegates stand by the Word of God. Mrs. Day's support of Dr. Riley's amendment was to us most suggestive. In the Great War, while the men went to the frontline trenches, the women turned to every kind of service usually performed by men at home. They worked in munition factories, and even on railways, and cars, and buses, and elevators, as well as in nursing and those special branches of service in which women usually exercise a tender ministry. And in this war against modernism, we shall have to enlist the women; we shall have to form women's organizations; we shall have to get our women instructed in these matters; and we are sure they will become a mighty auxiliary to the rest of the army".
T.T. Shields commended her bold stand in his paper the Gospel Witness. Note especially his concluding plea.
https://tbs.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/1926-05-27_VOL.-05.pdf
"One very interesting and moving feature of the debate was the appearance on the platform of Mrs. Day, of Los Angeles, Calif. She was given five minutes and pleaded with passion and power that the delegates stand by the Word of God. Mrs. Day's support of Dr. Riley's amendment was to us most suggestive. In the Great War, while the men went to the frontline trenches, the women turned to every kind of service usually performed by men at home. They worked in munition factories, and even on railways, and cars, and buses, and elevators, as well as in nursing and those special branches of service in which women usually exercise a tender ministry. And in this war against modernism, we shall have to enlist the women; we shall have to form women's organizations; we shall have to get our women instructed in these matters; and we are sure they will become a mighty auxiliary to the rest of the army".