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Side glimpses from the colonial meeting-house (1894)

Bliss, William Root, 1825-1906 · Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company · leaf 110

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gnifying 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…

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