Show I 1 BEFORE TIME OF BELLS SELLS the bonado which e h lo 10 church la in 0 id tim tin tz defore before the time of bell t various instruments st ere used to summon con gregat ions to worship IB in egypt they are eald said to have followed custom in using a trumpet in some Oklen oriental tal churches a kina of attle gave the signal in monasteries monks took it in turns to go round the cell calling the inmates to their devotions by knocking with a hammer which was called the isaak awakening enIng instrument 11 dells bells of one kind ur or another arc are however of very great antiquity having been used in religious cere monies by many of the ancient nations as a means of honoring their gods and t summoning them to the feasts for cx example ample the feast of and isis was always announced by tolls pliny says that bells were ere in ua long before hie big time being ballel tin tin un babula the use of emall belle bells lolae in england says william of malmesbury may be traced back as far as the fifth century and it U Is in clear from bede that even those t I 1 the largest kind campanale cam such ns rus bounded sounded in the air ard called a nun roue congregation gre gation to divine service were employed in england as early 43 the year being that in which the abbot hilda died |