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was in the beams of the roof. Whenever there chanced to be a thunderstorm during the time of public worship, the people of Beverly ran out under the trees, and in other towns they left the meeting-house if the storm seemed severe or near; still they built no powder houses. Grain, too, was stored in the loft of the meeting-house for safety; hatches were built, and often the corn paid to the minister was placed there.
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Leantos, or
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were sometimes built by the side of the building for use for storage. In Springfield, Mr. Pyncheon was allowed to place his corn in the roof chamber of the meeting-house; but as the people were afraid that the great weight might burst the floor, he was forbidden to store more than four hundred bushels at a time, unless he
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gifts were asked in every town to buy
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for the meeting-house. For instance, the new meeting-house in Pomfret, Connecticut, was painted bright yellow; it proved a veritable golden apple of discord throughout the county. Windham town quickly voted that its meeting-house be
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Killingly soon ordered that the
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Brooklyn church then, in 1762, ordered that the outside of its meeting-house be
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in the approved fashion. The body of the house was painted a bright orange; the doors and
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a warm chocolate color; the
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corner-boards, and weather-boards white. What a bright nosegay of color! As a crowning glory Brooklyn people put up an
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Eleclarick Rod on the gorgeous edifice, and proudly boasted that--Brooklyn meeting-house was the
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in the county. One old writer, however, spoke scornfully of the spirit of envious emulation, extravagance, and bad taste that spread and prevailed from the example of the foolish and useless