[81]It appears from this injunction that the grotesque custom of “lining out” or “deaconing” the psalm was not original in New England, but was borrowed, like most of the musical customs of our Puritan forefathers, from England.

[82]Curwen, Studies in Worship Music.

[83][This] has been done by several writers, but by no other in such admirable fashion as by Horder in his delightful book, The Hymn Lover (London, Curwen, 1889).

[84]Hooker, Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, book v. chap. 15.

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