d the whole place wasarranged for comfortable bearing rather than fordevout worshipping. The people ceased to takemuch part in the service, except as listeners, andprayer and praise were left to the parson and theclerk, and the Three decker came into being.In the lowest of the three pulpits sat the… … ascended to the upper deck to deliver hissermon of an hour or more. This hideousabomination in the way of ecclesiastical arrange-ments generally stood in the centre of the church, 9 I30 ANTIQUITIES AND CURIOSITIES. towerin_o- like Babel up to heaven, and completelyshutting out the altar from sight,…
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