To the Memory of my Mother.
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 Observance 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
The Sabbath in Puritan New England.