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The Bay Psalm-Book had
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Some few Directions regarding the singing added on the last pages of the book, and simple enough they were in matter if not in form. They commence,
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Squeaking above and Grumbling below had become far too frequent in the churches; Judge Sewall writes often with much self-reproach of his failure in
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and also records with pride when he
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Here is his pathetic record of one of his mistakes:
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He spake to me to set the tune. I intended Windsor and fell into High Dutch, and then essaying to set another tune went into a Key much to high. So I pray'd to Mr. White to set it which he did well. Litchfield Tune. The Lord Humble me and Instruct me that I should be the occasion of any interruption in the worship of God.
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The Bay Psalm-Book, cannot now be known. The great length of many of the psalms in that book was a fatal barrier to any successful effort to have good singing. Some of them were one hundred and thirty lines long, and occupied, when lined and sung, a full half-hour, during which the patient congregation stood. It is told of Dr. West, who preached in Dartmouth in 1726, that he forgot one Sabbath Day to bring his sermon to meeting. He gave out a psalm, walked a quarter of a mile to his house, got his sermon, and was back in his pulpit long before the psalm was finished. The irregularity of the rhythm in
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The Bay Psalm Book