Why ca n't women be ministers , Marilla ? I asked Mrs. Lynde that and she was shocked and said it would be a scandalous thing . She said there might be female ministers in the States and she believed there was , but thank goodness we had n't got to that stage in Canada yet and she hoped we never would . But I do n't see why . I think women would make splendid ministers . When there is a social to be got up or a church tea or anything else to raise money the women have to turn to and do the work . I 'm sure Mrs. Lynde can pray every bit as well as Superintendent Bell and I 've no doubt she could preach too with a little practice . '' `` Yes , I believe she could , '' said Marilla dryly . `` She does plenty of unofficial preaching as it is . Nobody has much of a chance to go wrong in Avonlea with Rachel to oversee them . '' `` Marilla , '' said Anne in a burst of confidence , `` I want to tell you something and ask you what you think about it . It has worried me terribly -- on Sunday afternoons , that is , when I think specially about such matters . I do really want to be good ; and when I 'm with you or Mrs. Allan or Miss Stacy I want it more than ever and I want to do just what would please you and what you would approve of . But mostly when I 'm with Mrs. Lynde I feel desperately wicked and as if I wanted to go and do the very thing she tells me I ought n't to do . I feel irresistibly tempted to do it . Now , what do you think is the reason I feel like that ? Do you think it 's because I 'm really bad and unregenerate ? '' Marilla looked dubious for a moment . Then she laughed . `` If you are I guess I am too , Anne , for Rachel often has that very effect on me .
I sometimes think she 'd have more XXXXX an influence for good , as you say yourself , if she did n't keep nagging people to do right .
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