Sabbath in Puritan New England. Alice Morse Earle

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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Table of Contents

       I

       The New England Meeting-House.

       II

       The Church Militant.

       III

       By Drum and Horn and Shell.

       IV

       The Old-Fashioned Pews.

       V

       Seating the Meeting.

       VI

       The Tithingman and the Sleepers.

       VII

       The Length of the Service.

       VIII

       The Icy Temperature of the Meeting-House.

       IX

       The Noon-House.

       X

       The Deacon's Office.

       XI

       The Psalm-Book of the Pilgrims.

       XII

       The Bay Psalm-Book.

       XIII

       Sternhold and Hopkins' Version of the Psalms.

       XIV

       Other Old Psalm-Books.

       XV

       The Church Music.

       XVI

       The Interruptions of the Services.

       XVII

       The Observances of the Day.

       XVIII

       The Authority of the Church and the Ministers.

       XIX

       The Ordination of the Minister.

       XX

       The Ministers.

       XXI

       The Ministers' Pay.

       XXII

       The Plain-Speaking Puritan Pulpit.

       XXIII

       The Early Congregations.