The Sabbath in Puritan New England

The Sabbath in Puritan New England
Alice Morse Earle, american historian and author (1851-1911)

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Table of Contents
-01- About this book
-02- DEDICATION
-03- THE NEW ENGLAND MEETING HOUSE
-04- THE CHURCH MILITANT
-05- BY DRUM AND HORN AND SHELL
-06- THE OLD FASHIONED PEWS
-07- SEATING THE MEETING
-08- THE TITHINGMAN AND THE SLEEPERS
-09- THE LENGTH OF THE SERVICE
-10- THE ICY TEMPERATURE OF THE MEETING HOUSE
-11- THE NOON HOUSE
-12- THE DEACON'S OFFICE
-13- THE PSALM BOOK OF THE PILGRIMS
-14- THE BAY PSALM BOOK
-15- STERNHOLD AND HOPKINS' VERSION OF THE PSALMS
-16- OTHER OLD PSALM BOOKS
-17- THE CHURCH MUSIC
-18- THE INTERRUPTIONS OF THE SERVICES
-19- THE OBSERVANCES OF THE DAY
-20- THE AUTHORITY OF THE CHURCH AND THE MINISTERS
-21- THE ORDINATION OF THE MINISTER
-22- THE MINISTERS
-23- THE MINISTERS' PAY
-24- THE PLAIN SPEAKING PURITAN PULPIT
-25- THE EARLY CONGREGATIONS