. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . es and to their neighborhoods. 346 NEW JERSEY AS A COLONY Whatever may have been the differences amongthe faiths as to forms of worship, this custom wasgeneral among them, even among the Society ofFriends, where the men and women were sepa-rated during the hours of meeting. Nor did musicplay any prominent part in the Sunday services,except in the Episcopalian churches. Amongmany of the Calvinists, and particularly amongthe Quakers, music was not permitted. Around all the churches were the graveyards,where were buried thos
. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . es and to their neighborhoods. 346 NEW JERSEY AS A COLONY Whatever may have been the differences amongthe faiths as to forms of worship, this custom wasgeneral among them, even among the Society ofFriends, where the men and women were sepa-rated during the hours of meeting. Nor did musicplay any prominent part in the Sunday services,except in the Episcopalian churches. Amongmany of the Calvinists, and particularly amongthe Quakers, music was not permitted. Around all the churches were the graveyards,where were buried those faithful to their religiousvows. Throughout the colony plantation grave-yards were common, many preferring to be laidaway near their homes than under the shadowof the meeting houses. The graveyards were, how-ever, as in all new communities, neglected. m:m - G OD SHALL ^j^;)-^ft-^-^ S\ J OHNS LODGE CONS fl rUTKI)*^- ? ?.-: 5 ^ 5 / >j^rlii<\ .^^ R II R VT DOWN rHKHOt M,\IU-!! -?•-^^-l N O VfMlilK M, -,//() 11 IRON I W ,;,V.,%j. CHAPTER XXI The Status of Education THE origin of schools within the Stateof New Jersey may be traced, witha great degree of certainty, to theadvent of the Hollanders and theSwedes. In the development of thesettlements of these two nationalities a familiar,almost necessary, relationship existed between theschools and that other agency of civilization, thechurches. In communities where the struggle forexistence was bitter there were few, if any, whohad either time, experience, or inclination to teachthe young. To the minister, in the discharge ofhis duties, this task naturally fell, not only on ac-count of his superior mental advantages, but be-cause the current view of education itself wasthat it was religious rather than secular. As early as 1633 there was founded in NewAmsterdam the Collegiate Church School, whichgave secular instruction to the youth of the town,and may have had among its students youthsfrom the western shore
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