PG Editor's Note: In addition to various other variations of grammar and spelling from that old time, the word "their" is spelled as "thier" 17 times. It has been left there as "thier".

The Sabbath in Puritan New England

by

Alice Morse Earle

Seventh Edition

To the Memory of my Mother.

Contents.

  1. [The New England Meeting-House]
  2. [The Church Militant]
  3. [By Drum and Horn and Shell]
  4. [The Old-Fashioned Pews]
  5. [Seating the Meeting]
  6. [The Tithingman and the Sleepers]
  7. [The Length of the Service]
  8. [The Icy Temperature of the Meeting-House]
  9. [The Noon-House]
  10. [The Deacon's Office]
  11. [The Psalm-Book of the Pilgrims]
  12. [The Bay Psalm-Book]
  13. [Sternhold and Hopkins' Version of the Psalms]
  14. [Other Old Psalm-Books]
  15. [The Church Music]
  16. [The Interruptions of the Services]
  17. [The Observance of the Day]
  18. [The Authority of the Church and the Ministers]
  19. [The Ordination of the Minister]
  20. [The Ministers]
  21. [The Ministers' Pay]
  22. [The Plain-Speaking Puritan Pulpit]
  23. [The Early Congregations]

The Sabbath in Puritan New England.

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