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Re: Strange Things That Have Happened To You In Ch
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Originally Posted by KeptByTheWord
One incident stands out in my mind... we had a couple come to church who soon after they began attending, asked if they could get married. My husband was a vague acquaintance of the groom (having went to school with him as a child). So, they asked my husband to stand up with them. He agreed. When the groom and bride showed up for the wedding, the bride was drunk. Some family members had showed up, and they were all game for the wedding, so we proceeded. As the bride swayed back and forth up the aisle (she was a big lady) she had on these really high heels, and just as she reached the front of the church, she passed out! My husband managed to catch her and blunt her fall. After we got her to come to, she sat on the front pew for a while, and her mother demanded that we continue the ceremony... as did the groom... so the wedding proceeded.
To my knowledge, the marriage didn't last long. I will always question the wisdom of the pastor in proceeding with the ceremony with a drunk bride!
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I am amazed that any preacher would continue a wedding ceremony with a drunk bride. The pastor should have called the wedding off and told them if they wanted to get married with her in that condition they would need to go to the Justice of the Peace or whatever local govermental entity in their town / state performed civil weddings.
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"I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
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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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