. Bygone church life in Scotland . R GLASS. 96 BYGONE CHURCH LIFE. tions for the preservation of order in church. Inthe Kirk Session records of Perth we find aninstruction minuted that the kirk-officer havehis red staff in the Kirk on theSabbath days wherewith to wakensleepers and remove greeting- 1593 complaint was made at Perthof boys in time of preaching runningthrouo^h the church clattering andfighting. The hours of church service onSundays were much earlier long agothan they are now. In 1615 theKirk Session of Lasswade appointednine oclock as the hour on whichservice should begi
. Bygone church life in Scotland . R GLASS. 96 BYGONE CHURCH LIFE. tions for the preservation of order in church. Inthe Kirk Session records of Perth we find aninstruction minuted that the kirk-officer havehis red staff in the Kirk on theSabbath days wherewith to wakensleepers and remove greeting- 1593 complaint was made at Perthof boys in time of preaching runningthrouo^h the church clattering andfighting. The hours of church service onSundays were much earlier long agothan they are now. In 1615 theKirk Session of Lasswade appointednine oclock as the hour on whichservice should begin in the summermonths, and half-past nine as the hour of servicein winter. The neglect of public ordinances has at alltimes been a subject of lamentation. In oldendays many devices are said to have been tried toremedy or abate these evils. Those resorted to-by the Covenanters in Aberdeen in 1642 wereperhaps as ingenious as any that have everbeen adopted. Our minister, says Spalding, teaches powerfullie and plainlie the word to the. HOUR GLASSSTAND. PUBLIC WORSHIP IN OLDEN TIMES. 97 gryte comfort of his auditores. He takes straitcount of those who cumis not to the communion,nor keepis not the kirk, calhs out the absentisout of pulpit, quhilk drew in sic a fair auditoriethat the seatis of the kirk was not abill to holdthame, for remeid quhair of he causit big up aneloft athwart the body of the kirk. Mr Cant did not go quite so far, but beingannoyed that his afternoon diets were sparselyattended, he naively dismissed his forenoonaudience without a benediction, and reserved hisblessing for those that returned to the secondsermon. G (Thurcb flDueic By Thomas Frost. THOUGH the use of instrumental music inthe services of the Church fell into dis-favour after the Reformation, the existence of asculptured representation of an organ in MelroseAbbey shows that instrument to have beenknown as early as the fourteenth century. That regals, as they were then called, were placedin some of the
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