Murray on headcoverings

There is an excellent post over at Virginia is for Huguenots. It concerns the almost forgotten practice of all churches during the last 2,000 years. You can check it out by following the link on the left side of this page under the banner for the blogs that I read daily. It is well worth the effort to find out more on this subject if you are not familiar with it. In my family, we had never heard of Christians practicing head covering until about 7 years ago. We thought that only the Amish did that kind of thing. You may be surprised to find that nearly every church in history held that 1 Corinthians 11 is enjoining this practice to every Christian woman.
Certainly, we do not suggest that we practice this today only on the basis that the majority of Christians in history did. Maybe they were wrong. I happen to think they were right, and a careful consideration of Mr. Murray's argument will show this.
The key to understanding this argument is found in verses 5 & 6. The argument cannot be saying the word 'hair' when it uses the word covering. If it did then it would make no grammatical sense. This is in addition to the plain reading of the Greek, which clearly indicates that this is speaking of a piece of cloth, or garment.
If you don't agree, then just apply the same definition and meaning to the following verse... 7 and it would read that all men should be bald when they pray or prophesy?!.... Huh?
Exactly.....
One point of difference with Murray would be his understanding of this applying only to Public Worship. I cannot find that limitation in the Scriptures. It seems to apply, not to a formal understanding of ecclesiastical gatherings, but rather to 'praying and prophesying'. This means that we practice head covering for ladies at any time that she is called to pray or to proclaim the gospel. Since we do not know when this would be.... we err on the side of caution.
At the same time, we would hold that to pray or to proclaim the gospel is a moral duty. If a woman should find herself without a covering at such a moment, she should not fail to obey the moral injunction to pray. Or to share the Good News of Christ's sacrifice.
Hope you enjoy the reading and I pray that we may all be gentle and charitable as we seek to reform our practice to the clear teaching of the Word. After all, that is how Paul ends the argument.