HATLESS WOMEN
SCRIPTURAL BAN RAISED LONDON, Sept. 2. Hatless women are now permitted to enter St. Paul’s Cathedral. The cathedral authorities stated last night that the famous Scriptural ban on bare heads was no longer enforced. St. Paul, in his epistle to the Corinthians 1873 years ago, decreed that “every woman that prayeth . . . with her head uncovered dishonoreth her head.” Last Monday a country magistrate used these words, to an Englishwoman: “You ought to be thoroughly ashamed of yourself. It is a most disreputable proceeding.’* The woman had given evidence without a hat: In . churches throughout the country the old Scriptural rule lias been applied with varying degrees of rigor. ,No,iv the cathedral .church of the capital has taken a line of its own. Canon S. A. Alexander, of St. Paul’s, states: “So many women have come hatless to St. Paul’s during the recent, hot weather that .we have made no attempt to interfere with them. They are not supposed to take part in the service, but they do, and no attempt has bee.u made to stop them.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17919, 25 October 1932, Page 5
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178HATLESS WOMEN Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17919, 25 October 1932, Page 5
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