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The Sabbath in Puritan New England by Alice Morse Earle
Seventh Edition
To the Memory of my Mother.
Contents.
     The New England Meeting-House
     The Church Militant
     By Drum and Horn and Shell
     The Old-Fashioned Pews
     Seating the Meeting
     The Tithingman and the Sleepers
     The Length of the Service
     The Icy Temperature of the Meeting-House
     The Noon-House
     The Deacon's Office
     The Psalm-Book of the Pilgrims
     The Bay Psalm-Book
     Sternhold and Hopkins' Version of the Psalms
     Other Old Psalm-Books
     The Church Music
     The Interruptions of the Services
     The Observance of the Day
     The Authority of the Church and the Ministers
     The Ordination of the Minister
     The Ministers
     The Ministers' Pay
     The Plain-Speaking Puritan Pulpit
     The Early Congregations
     The Sabbath in Puritan New England.