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WOMAN'S PRIVILEGES 163
13 In a certain community only women may be
Christian believers . As is right, they meet together
for prayer and study, as Lydia and other Jewish
women used to do by the riverside in ancient
Philippi of Macedonia . Acts 16 :13,14 According
to custom then, Lydia and her companion
worshipers were veiled in that public place, but
today women assembling together need not be .
However, if any of them receives an appointment
through the Theocratic organization to keep order
and conduct the meetings for Bible study and for
considering how to preach to others, it would appear
proper for her to wear a sign of authority
upon her head while so performing . This would
symbolize that she recognizes the Theocratic
headship of the man and that she is temporarily
or circumstantially serving in the congregation in
place of the man who should fill that position .
In a home where a husband, the head of the house,
calls upon his wife or other believing woman to
offer prayer over the meal, the woman's recognition
that the man presides over the woman should
oblige her to wear a sign of authority on her head
while so praying. In everything faithful women
should show submission to the one whom God, the
Head of the Christ, has placed in authority. This
way she lovingly and beautifully portrays how the
congregation, the bride of Christ, is subject to
her Theocratic Head, the Bridegroom.-Ephesians
5 :24-32.
1 3 . What about her conducting meetings of women or
praying at the mealtable, when so assigned?