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Title: Building the nation : events in the history of the United States, from the Revolution to the beginning of the war between the states
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896
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Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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s a Yankee horse. The men who left home, friends, comfort; who tore all dear old thingsup by the roots rather than submit to the tyranny of bishops and the King,or yield their idea of right, were men of intense convictions. Life wasreal: it meant a great deal. Work was a duty. Life was such a tremen-dous reality that there was no time for play. It meant so much thatevery power which men possess must be trained to honor and glorifyGod. Everybody must go to meeting on Sunday. Everybocky must be 1790-1800.) SOCIAL LIFE IN NEW ENGLAND. 79 educated. So the meeting-house and school-house rose side by side allover New England. In England, in the time of James, a law had been passed compellingeverybody to attend church, or pay a fine. The settlers of Massachusetts and Virginia also passed laws compellingpeople to attend church. The New England people called it attendingmeeting; the place where they met was a meeting-house and not achurch. The church was not the house, but a body of believers.
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WIDE-AWAKE DEACON. On Sunday people put on their best clothes. Those who owned horsesrode on horseback—the wife on a pillion behind her husband, carrying ababy in her arms, with a small boy on the rump of the horse, holding onby the crupper. They dismounted at the horse-block in front of the meet-ing-house. Those who walked went barefoot in summer, and carriedtheir stockings and shoes, putting them on before reaching the meet-ing-house. They sat in high-backed pews. When the minister enteredthe congregation stood while he went up the stairs to the pulpit. Theprayers were long and the sermons still longer. The deacons sat in the 80 BUILDING THE NATION. (Chap. VI. most honorable seats. They were good men. It was their duty to keepawake, and they looked hard at anybody who dropped off to sleep duringthe sermon. Those of the congregation who could sing sat in the singers seats.The leader gave out the time and the pitch, the singers sounded theirparts—bass, tenor, alto, and treble fa-l

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