Presbyterian Church to rescind its 1974 decision to admit women as ministers.The Rev. Theodora Hobbs at the Abbotsford Presbyterian Church.The service proceeded as usual at the Abbotsford Presbyterian church yesterday morning. A woman played the organ, a

Presbyterian Church to rescind its 1974 decision to admit women as ministers.The Rev. Theodora Hobbs at the Abbotsford Presbyterian Church.The service proceeded as usual at the Abbotsford Presbyterian church yesterday morning. A woman played the organ, a woman read the scriptures, and a third woman delivered the sermon.The church was not struck by lightning.But many of the women who attended the service were moved to express a more secular wrath following a decision by the church's National General Assembly last Wednesday to ban women from the ministry. September 15, 1991. (Photo by Alexander James Towle/Fairfax Media via Getty Images).