100 years ago--Baptist church in New Brunswick hires the province's first female minister

Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law.
And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church. I Corinthians 14:34-35

Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression...
...This is a true saying, if a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife,... I Timothy 2:12, 3:1-2a

For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee:
If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly. Titus 1:5-6

On June 27, 1919, Esther I. Clark of Fredericton became the first female minister in New Brunswick when she was hired as pastor of the Baptist Church in Grangeville. It does come as a surprise to this blogger to see this evidence of present and future apostasy occurring in a Baptist church before it occurred in the mainline churches such as the United Church of Canada and the Anglican Church of Canada, but I take it as evidence that end-times apostasy has deep roots indeed.

See also my posts:

80 years ago: United Church of Canada ordains Canada's first female minister (November 7, 2016)

40 years ago: Anglican Church of Canada ordains its first female priests (November 30, 2016)

50 years ago: Presbyterian Church in Canada ordains its first female minister (May 30, 2018)

More middle-aged women are opting for Church of England priesthood (August 20, 2018)

Presbyterian church in New Hampshire hires Brazilian female "pastor" in an effort to reverse its decline (September 1, 2018)

Female Church of England "bishop" wants to redefine God (September 18, 2018)

Percentage of female clergy in liberal denominations has increased greatly in the last 20 years (October 21, 2018)