Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-23
THE SABBATH OF THE PURITANS.
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belonged to Robert Southey. Southey's name
IS In it. Southey was not very great man,
but he had the privilege of knowing several
particularly great men. Wordsworth and
Coleridge have no doubt handled these old
books. Southey's Clarendon is bound in
calico. His wife, they say, had been dress
maker, and after they were married she
dressed up all the books He used to call
them his calico library. ap
One of the disadvantages of modern
methods of book making is that the books
are all alike. 1 mean in the cut of their
clothes. The editions come out in regiments,
and the individuality of the single volume
is lost. Your copy of Browning is exactly
like your neighbours. There is not only a
loss in individuality but in pride of pos
session. One of the great joys of life is to
possess something that our neigh Dor cannot
buy for love or money. Half of the delight
of ownership is lost when the people who
live next door have tine same things that we
have.
Spray of Leaves as a Book Mark.
The only refuge for that considerable
portion of us whose desires have to be
squeezed into the corners of small pocket
books is to make our books unique by turn
Ing down the corners of the pages, thumb
marking the covers, and scribbling over the
margins. 1 have greatly increased the value
of my copy of "The Sabbath in Puritan New
England" by adding to it q bookmark in the
shape of little spray of leaves from New
England church yard. This green branch
grew in Duxbury, just over where the steps
went up 200 years ago into the Puritan meet
ing house. The old meeting house has long
since gone the way of its seventeenth-cen-
tury companions. Only the inequalities of
the ground show where If stood But there
il did stand once and vbera this snria of
green cama fror, oc,annao tha anni.nt
stem. There walked Edo Rre1ystsr wbo
first had charge of the Dn,nnrv congrera.
tion in the days when neighboring Plymouth
s;de s VI +ha on,y gtoe oon.. pa,sn % on .nls
came John Alden and Prisci,Ia and sfter
theno -neai.a ti,,o ,',' ~ ~ ns.,e 80
or.onr,. 80 ~ 4s. sp
fn1Ion,ad Iiaa 500. 'p' "n
+oin Thas .a. .no ui'. IA .a.p oap
-. ~ anu an oSneIs @ Nho nlaoe Ineir ao-
,,ra,,.a 80 ~ sno uay nomer ,.a Eahe over 'he
1eawas A ei'" WIS ii''le Dian'h Vi
One of tho ,oos+ .,,, - r,s..
Rrens+er.s sy,aaors. .e"i .- na'e VI Looi
n-~h, N 'no pa''o,a'o vi
pah;u ~ , Nooiusoh. larson
on - "as ai"ays III an ANXIOUS irame
ot ~ - aoou1 ms eaiary, mrs. Larie mas
T, ~ nc. pook aoout tne minister's
;s pay; ine u1,san m, MINISTER'S took wnat tney
~ - y "ere coinnohly "nilhs'
III. -, % pieesoo w. " wy " eofao
80, -, n a,l. 80 poo, peopie. tney sos
r. sinai eaiaries. ooI'oh Matner saio
nau Dnei1 were oniy TWO cheap things IN
o" Hnsianu-niihisVers anu mig. rue
parsoh was sometimes PAID IN KIND. Meal,
iumDer, peans. cider, pumpkins, patchwork
pea quits were sent IN for the support OF
tne preaching OF the Gospel. At weddings
WIN gloves. Ine Rev. Mr.. Ei1ott' or the
Nor'i Cnurch IN Boston, received duflnS
HIS nlinlstry z'sao pairs OF gloves.
Tronb,ex of Tho E.r,v pastors
rL
Pason was soinetiines Paio IN
eaeh' Inc casn consisted OF Wampum'
eh'er eAins anu ieaueh pulets. Inc "am-
p,. I'm " ao oi'sn ioumu W oe sauiy chippeu.
NJ p",so p ~, W Wei no soI MS pay a' aii.
,.rarat;o,, ,,a .s.N,-i neais .naO nis ooh-
sn "oio S"ihAihs VI LIN akihS al IN
Se"so ~ n,s saaIy' Sehs III soienn peti.
.ioh satis' ~, as am PLAGUED 10 oeatn'
ne saiu, W ee' "nat Is owing me now.
We' Iarie MAKES no mehtlon o! farson
noDlnsor; ihe oio pu3ourY SIaoltlons rep
20 ~, go So O. $3.50 ir " &c. aT
The congregation, it appears, granted the
good mans desire, and annually increased
his stipend. They got ahead of the parson.
however by never paving 1t, When he de-
parted they were eight years behind In his
salary. Robinson seems to have been a dis
agreeable, discontented old fellow. Once
they gave him 30 acres of land IN Weecher-
ton. That, they thought, would satisfy him
for time. "Parson," they said, 1--WE hope
that you will at last be satisfied. We have
given you 80 acres of land in Weecherton."
"Weechertonr' he cried, "3O acres in Wee
cherton: Why, if you were to NOW it with
razor and rake it with fne-tooth comb,
you wouldn't get enough from it to winter
a grasshopper!' Finally they had to put
the old man out. They locked up the meet
ing house and told him he would have to go.
Singularly enough, he went.
The old meeting house at Duxbury rises
into sight as one reads "The Sabbath in
Puritan New England" We get back 200
years and keep the Lords Day with our fore
fathers. just now, when some good people
are trying to bring that old past into the
present, and to establish the Puritan Sabbath
here in Pittsburg it is worth while to take
the sort of journey which this book makes
possible, and to discover what manner of
day that old day was.
How the Blue Laws Were Enforced.
The Sabbath beaan on so+r,d.r .t.o.
NON ErervbodH -,ust s..u,.oaas. ..ei-
iaInr,, ~ . o,o,ooL .,d sn.nd 49, 80.
day in such preparation for the morrow Gas
the ministers shall direct" All good people
occupied some part OF these hours IN teach
ing their chlldren the shorter Catechlsm OF
the westminster Assembly OF Div1nes. And
not only thelr chlloren' put thelr servants
One perple1ed parson wrote back to Eng.
lano OF tne oincultV OF gettlng servants