. Side glimpses from the colonial meeting-house . ledd, or upon other due proofe, thesaid servante shall be delivered either to hismaister or any other yt pursues brings such cer-tificate or proofe. As the Puritan legislators of New Eng-land professed to regulate their civil affairsin accordance with the laws of the Mosaicperiod of history, their Fugitive Slave Lawshould have been taken from the twenty-third chapter of Deuteronomy : * Thoushalt not deliver unto his master the ser-vant which is escaped from his master untothee. The custom of dignifying the meeting-house was a source of envious
. Side glimpses from the colonial meeting-house . ledd, or upon other due proofe, thesaid servante shall be delivered either to hismaister or any other yt pursues brings such cer-tificate or proofe. As the Puritan legislators of New Eng-land professed to regulate their civil affairsin accordance with the laws of the Mosaicperiod of history, their Fugitive Slave Lawshould have been taken from the twenty-third chapter of Deuteronomy : * Thoushalt not deliver unto his master the ser-vant which is escaped from his master untothee. The custom of dignifying the meeting-house was a source of envious feelings insocial life. It created animosities betweenfamilies, which descended from one genera-tion to another, and which were kept aliveby the formula of prayer repeated from thepulpit every Sunday for * our superiors, in-feriors, and equals. It Hngered after the THE SEATING OF THE PEOPLE. 95 colonial era had ended ; and the last thatwas seen of it was in the secluded parish ofNorfolk, Connecticut, in the year eighteenhundred and
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