. First century of national existence; the United States as they were and nest of hard beaten earth, but sometimes of split planks; theroof of bark or thatch and in rare cases ofhalf-hewn logs with clay cement for thechinks. Glass in the windows was a rarity;oftener they were mere wooden shutters, ad-mitting the light when thrown open but ad-mitting, in their season, the wintry breezesalso. There were no means of warming thehouse of God even when it was of betterarchitecture than this, for two reasons: onethat at this period stoves and furnaceswere not in existence on this side of theAt
. First century of national existence; the United States as they were and nest of hard beaten earth, but sometimes of split planks; theroof of bark or thatch and in rare cases ofhalf-hewn logs with clay cement for thechinks. Glass in the windows was a rarity;oftener they were mere wooden shutters, ad-mitting the light when thrown open but ad-mitting, in their season, the wintry breezesalso. There were no means of warming thehouse of God even when it was of betterarchitecture than this, for two reasons: onethat at this period stoves and furnaceswere not in existence on this side of theAtlantic; the other that it was incom-patible with the ideas of the fathers, thatpeople should be allowed to take comfortin the house of Gtod, except in thepreaching of the Word. Was not thepromise made on this very condition Kthou refrain thy foot from the Sabbath, fromdoing thine own pleasure on my holy day,&c., and did not that evidently mean thatpeople should not go to a good comfortablechurch, nicely warmed and ventilated lest itshould be a doing of their own pleasure?. J\rst Church m ConnecciciU.
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