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Uncovering Heads in Church

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 30, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 48.

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Uncovering Heads in Church

CAPITAL.—Mr. Spurgeon was annoyed by three young men persisting in wearing their hats in church. He appeared for the time not to notice them, but by and by told his audience of a visit he had made to a Jewish synagogue. “When I entered,” he said, “I took off my hat, but was informed that the mark of respect was to keep it on. I did so, though I felt very strange wearing my hat in a place of worship. And now, as I paid this mark of respect to the synagogue, may I ask those three Jews in the gallery to conform equally to our rules, and kindly uncover their heads?” The young “Jews” obeyed.