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I say unto you, mark the perfect man and behold the upright. But in the midst of his low, monotonous sermon-voice he roared out the word
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Fire, fire, fire! and when the startled and blinking men jumped up, calling out
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Where? he roared back in turn,
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In hell, for sleeping sinners. Rev. Mr. Phillips, of Andover, in 1755, openly rebuked his congregation for
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and on the Sunday following an earthquake shock which was felt throughout New England, he said he hoped the
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Glorious Lord of the Sabbath had given them such a shaking as would keep them awake through one sermon-time. Other and more autocratic parsons did not hesitate to call out their sleeping parishioners plainly by name, sternly telling them also to
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Wake up! A minister in Brunswick, Maine, thus pointedly wakened one of his sweet-sleeping church-attendants, a man of some dignity and standing in the community, and received the shocking and tautological answer,
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Mind your own business, and go on with your sermon.
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Ye women may sometimes sleepe and none know by reason of their enormous bonnets. Mr. Whiting doth pleasantlie say from ye pulpit hee doth seeme to be preaching to stacks of straw with men among them.
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The parish did Disapprove, with a capital D, for the vote passed in the affirmative. There is no record, however, to tell whether the Indecent fashion was abandoned, but I warrant no tithingman was powerful enough to make Andover women take off their proudly worn Sunday bonnets if they did not want to. Another town voted that it was the
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Town's Mind that the women should take off their bonnets and