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Evelyn wrote:

>  I have been Pentecostal all my life, all I have ever known
> is what they call the old pathes, but whether people admit it or not,
> things are not right somewhere. at least  this is how I feel, I love
> the Apostolic experience , it is my life, but I am woman enough to admit
> that there is a double standard.

Sister Evelyn might be interested in this statement about Holiness
standards made by Howard Goss, first General Superintendent of the
United Pentecostal Church.  It is taken from The Winds of God, Ethel
Goss, Word Aflame Press, 1977.

"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 preacher from 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 never seemingly occurred to any of us."  (Goss, 67)

Perhaps our generation of Apostolics need to be "so taken up with the
Lord" that the issue of dress is of secondary importance to the
experience of Jesus Christ in the Apostolic community and the faith it
creates.  This is the true "old path" which Apostolics should be
following.

God Bless!

Steve