DR. J. M. BUCKLEY said in debate before the Methodist General Conference, on the subject of licensing women to preach, that “the great majority of refined women do not desire to be licensed.” Doubtless, “refined” or unrefined, the great majority of women, and equally of men, do not desire to preach. But we do not quite understand that word “refined.” Why was that put in? Certainly Dr. Buckley would not dare say that true “refinement” unfitted any one from preaching the love of God to men! If it is a fact that the “refining” of woman causes her to become indifferent or careless of her duty to God and men, or if it causes her to become unwilling to “do what she can” do well, then it is high time for the Methodist General Conference to give some prayerful thought to the abatement of the evils attending the refining process of society. The next thing we may expect to hear is that the preaching of the gospel of the Son of God has been reduced to a mere business avocation, and is, therefore, a really vulgar profession, like the law, for instance, and, therefore, no modest, sensitive, and “refined” woman will engage in it. True refinement consists in learning the right and wrong concerning all subjects possible. A truly refined woman will judge all things by the highest possible standard of right, and will then abide or be governed by the right. Take such refinement as this into all the relations of life, and we will see the most perfect lady or gentleman imaginable. This would be a refinement of right-doing, and it would not unfit any one for preaching the gospel of right-doing, right-living and right-trusting.—Independent.