Show When Sabbath Was Wat Day of 01 Rigid Observance In Connecticut perhaps more than anywhere else Sunday was a sort of ot popular Idol nor did the rigor of Its observance ab able to t p perceptibly until long after alier the Revolution This extreme scrupulosity ty about Sabbath keeping was vas doubtless th the moving cause canse of ot the building of ot the Sabbath day houses these were little lit tle tie shanties standing on the meeting house green each Intended to to accommodate a tamil family during the Interval between the two services Some Sabbath day houses houles were built with a n stall at one end to shelter the horse borse while the family took refuge In Inthe Inthe Inthe the other where there was a chimney and a meager furniture of rude seats scats and a n table Here on arrival before the first service service servo ice the owners lighted a 11 fire and deposited deposited de de- posited their luncheon and to this place the they came back to eat theIr doughnuts and thaw themselves out after atter their first long sitting In the Arctic climate of ot the meeting h house use Sometimes two families had hod a 11 Sabbath Sab Sab- bath day bath day house together But nut some somo parishes In Massachusetts l l. l and perhaps elsewhere had a n c common common noon bouse for tor all aU comers to rest in Fireside assemblages on Sunday whether In the parsonage or noon house were In danger of ot proving delightful de do- to those who were vere prone to enjoy the society of or other human buman beIngs beings be be- ings lags and hence the pastors were put upon their best contrivances to have most of ot the Interval between the services servo seer ices icet filled up with the reading rending aloud of ot edifying books and other exercises calculated d to keep the mind In a becomingly be- be Irksome framer frame Philadel Philadelphia phia Inquirer |