Scene at a Cathedral
■' r* Hms and Reverent Customs , Frw laooiation .—Copyright. London, Anquat 27 SeyebVi ladies, on visiting Canterbury Cathedral without head covering, were exeluded for disregarding the usual reverent • onstom. ...• '■ The movement is supported by, the English Church Union, and a long correspondence on tbe matter is taking place in the newspapers. v • [The custom of woman having a covering for her head in church is based on St. Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians, chap, ix, ver. 10.-" For this cause ought the woman to have power (or covering) ou her head because of the angels." But verse 15 of the same chapter reads:—"But if a woman have long hair it is a glory to her; for her bair is: given ber for a covering;"]
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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1415, 28 August 1905, Page 3
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