Does n't Mr. Allan preach magnificent sermons ? Mrs. Lynde says he is improving every day and the first thing we know some city church will gobble him up and then we 'll be left and have to turn to and break in another green preacher . But I do n't see the use of meeting trouble halfway , do you , Marilla ? I think it would be better just to enjoy Mr. Allan while we have him . If I were a man I think I 'd be a minister . They can have such an influence for good , if their theology is sound ; and it must be thrilling to preach splendid sermons and stir your hearers ' hearts . 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 .
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