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The Sabbath in Puritan New England

by Alice Morse Earle

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  1. 1Note
  2. 2Dedication — I — The New England Meeting-House
  3. 3II — The Church Militant
  4. 4III — By Drum and Horn and Shell
  5. 5IV — The Old-Fashioned Pews
  6. 6V — Seating the Meeting
  7. 7VI — The Tithingman and the Sleepers
  8. 8VII — The Length of the Service
  9. 9VIII — The Icy Temperature of the Meeting-House
  10. 10IX — The Noon-House
  11. 11X — The Deacon’s Office
  12. 12XI — The Psalm-Book of the Pilgrims
  13. 13XII — The Bay Psalm-Book
  14. 14XIII — Sternhold and Hopkins’ Version of the Psalms
  15. 15XIV — Other Old Psalm-Books
  16. 16XV — The Church Music
  17. 17XVI — The Interruptions of the Services
  18. 18XVII — The Observances of the Day
  19. 19XVIII — The Authority of the Church and the Ministers
  20. 20XIX — The Ordination of the Minister
  21. 21XX — The Ministers
  22. 22XXI — The Ministers’ Pay
  23. 23XXII — The Plain-Speaking Puritan Pulpit
  24. 24XXIII — The Early Congregations

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