Show PURITAN MARRIAGE CUSTOMS startling bible texts text sometimes sometime selected for the wedding sermon A marriage in church was rare writes alice earle in tho ladies rome home journal in an article on courtship and marriage in puritan days occasionally sio nally ono one took place in the new home of the young couple this thia was hold held to be somewhat unlucky thanksgiving day was wag a favorito favorite time to choose to bo be married as ag friends yero were then gathered from afar the bride was waa universally advised to wear something old something new something borrowed something blue and though she aiho could dress before a mirror she must not lookin look in the glass when once her toilet was completed else ill luck in vaguely defined but positive form were the result sunday was waa really the exhibition day for the bride indeed sho she found at meeting the sole cole place in which she could appear before an assembled public and for this exhibition tho the happy pair donned their finest bridal attire tho the bride and groom and bridal p party arty opened the showdy show by proudly walking in a little procession through the narrow streets to the meeting house on the sabbath following the marriage in lameda larneds Lar neds history of windham county coun conn we read a description of such an amusing scene in brooklyn conn further public notice was drawn to the bride by allowing her to choose the text test for the sermon preached on tho the first sunday of the coming out of the newly married couple much ingenuity was exercised in finding appropriate and sometimes startling bible texts for these wedding sor sermons the instances are well known of the marriage of parson smiths two daughters one cue of whom sele selected cled the text mary hath bath chosen that good part while the daughter abby who married john adams decided upon the tha text john came neither eating nor drinking and they say he hath bath a dovil devil |