Among the regular announcements printed each week in the calendar of
the Temple Baptist Church, Los Angeles, Cal., when the Rev. Robert J.
Burdette was pastor, was the following:
Out of Christian consideration for others, the women will please
remove their hats before the beginning of the sermon.
There was general conformity with a request so courteous and so
Christian. In a large audience of several thousand there will,
of course, be occasional transgressors. When the number of
transgressors was exasperatingly large, the startled ears of the
offenders were in danger of being greeted with a pronunciamento
from the pastor, ordinarily the gentlest of men, usually in this
spoken form:
“If the lady with the becoming hat will kindly notice how hard
the man behind her is dodging, trying to see the preacher, she
will undoubtedly be obliging enough to take down her millinery,
postpone her halo, and conform to the customs of this church.”
The effect is generally satisfactory to the audience, and the
wearer’s self-respect is preserved in a trying episode. (Text.)
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=Outcome=--See DIRECTION.
=Outlawry=--See LAWLESSNESS.
=Outstripping Danger=--See AHEAD OF CIRCUMSTANCES.
=Overcoming Obstacles=--See ENERGY, INDOMITABLE.
=Overdoing=--See COMPARISONS, APT.