 | William Parsons Lunt - 1840 - 164 страници
...account ordinarily. * " Marriages are solemnized and done by the Magistrates, and not by the Ministers. At burials, nothing is read, nor any funeral Sermon...buried. The ministers are most commonly present." t When to the account, given above, we add that a drum was, in the earliest times, used as a substitute... | |
 | Joseph Barlow Felt - 1849 - 680 страници
...of such ceremonies in Massachusetts. "At burials nothing is read nor any funeral sermon made, btrt all the neighborhood, or a good company of them, come...buried. The ministers are most commonly present." The omission of religious service on these occasions, probably arose from a fear of imitating the Catholic... | |
 | 1853 - 880 страници
...or a good company of them, come together by tolling of the bell, and carry the dead solemnly to the grave, and there stand by him while he is buried. The ministers arc most commonly present." From the fact, that Congregationalism was greatly promoted in England by... | |
 | John Gorham Palfrey - 1860 - 670 страници
...any funeral sermon made ; but all the neighborhood, or a good company of them, come together by the tolling of the bell, and carry the dead solemnly to...buried. The ministers are most commonly present." (Lechford, 39 ; comp. Ratio Discipline, 117.) * Comment, ad Galat. iv. 8-11, in Opp., V. 383-386. *... | |
 | John Gorham Palfrey - 1860 - 684 страници
...any funeral sermon made ; but all the neighborhood, or a good company of them, come together by the tolling of the bell, and carry the dead solemnly to...buried. The ministers are most commonly present." (Lechford, 89 ; comp. Ratio Disciplinte, 1 1 7.) * Comment. ad Galat. iv. 8-11, in Opp., V. 383-386.... | |
 | John Gorham Palfrey - 1861 - 682 страници
...any funeral sermon made ; but all the neighborhood, or a good company of them, come together by the tolling of the bell, and carry the dead solemnly to...buried. The ministers are most commonly present." (Lechford, 89 ; comp. Ratio Disciplines, 117.) 1 Comment, ad Galat. iv. 8-11, in Opp., V. 383-386.... | |
 | Sylvester Judd - 1863 - 646 страници
...sermon made, but all the neighborhood, or a good company of them, come together by tolling of the hell, and carry the dead solemnly to his grave, and there...buried. The ministers are most commonly present." There was no prayer. * Muscutt, a late writer in England, says, " God's law interdicts not such a marriage.... | |
 | Alonzo Lewis, James Robinson Newhall - 1865 - 648 страници
...by the Church for such affecting occasions? Lechford, writing in 1641, says: "At burials, no-, thing is read, nor any funeral sermon made, but all the...for delivering sermons, could have let such golden opportunities pass unimproved. PECULIAR CUSTOMS AND DOINGS IN RELIGIOUS MATTERS. 105 [And this leads... | |
 | Alexander McKenzie - 1873 - 334 страници
...church or in consecrated ground, but were laid in some convenient enclosure, without even a prayer. Lechford, writing in 1641, says, "At burials nothing...buried. The ministers are most commonly present." No burial was allowed on the Sabbath, except by leave obtained from a justice. It was long the custom... | |
 | Edward Emerson Bourne - 1875 - 886 страници
...good company of them, come together by the tolling of the bell, and carry the dead solemnly to the grave, and there stand by him while he is buried. The ministers are most commonly present. The dead are buried, without so much as a prayer, in some convenient enclosure by the roadside." This... | |
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At burials, nothing is read, nor any funeral sermon made, but all the neighborhood, or a good company of them, come together by tolling of the bell, and carry the dead solemnly to his grave and there stand by him while he is buried. The ministers are... 
