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Re: Youth Camp Haircuts
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Originally Posted by Mr. Steinway
When I was around 15 or 16 years old, at Illinois Youth Camp they did a hair check on boys, and about 25-30 of us were put on a church bus and driven into town for haircuts. There were three guys from our church on that bus besides me. Two of them were not saved.
I do not know for sure how the haircuts were paid for, but I think the pastor of the church were the boys came from was billed for the expense!
I went from a "cool" haircut with my hair barely touching the top of my ears and collar, to a crew cut!! All of us boys became the laughing stock of the camp, which I guess is what the leaders were hoping for. I don't know if I've ever been so humiliated in my life!
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What younger folks reading these posts have to realize is that in the timeframe you and I are posting about the style of the day was for mens hair to either just touch or go down over the ear. It was generally considered a sin for a UPC boy to have hair touching his ears. We are not talking long haired hippies with hair flowing down their backs! Sounds like your case was like mine where the hair was barely to or over the ear.
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"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
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