They Took Apostle At His Word
The parson, taking as his text an Epistle of St. Paul, emphasised to his Maori congregation the point made by the great apostle that no woman should enter the church with head uncovered, his flock being but rarely observant of this doctrine. The matter was debated at the pa, and.at first the theologians found the paucity of head-covering among the wahines a grave difficulty. But the next Sunday a crowd of Maori women assembled at the church door. The first one to enter had on her head a battered old tile that might have been worn by the first European whaler to arrive in Maoriland. She reverently entered the sacred edifice, and when seated pitched the hat through the window. Another woman caught it, pulled it on and entered. The same process continued till about 40 of them were in the church. They had obeyed the scriptural injunction that no woman should enter the temple uncovered; the matter of remaining uncovered in church was to them a matter St, Paul hadn’t been clear about. H
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 26, 29 November 1948, Page 3
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