Centennial Oration Delivered At Portland July 6 1886
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My successor, if the world has luck, will state it in minutes or perhaps in seconds. We had one newspaper, published once a week on a half sheet. People who did not go on foot went on horseback. Even if a man owned a chaise he was careful about taking it out. There was only one church, which stood where the First Parish now stands, but was broadside to the street. Sunday must have been a hard day to get through. There were no fires in the church. In the coldest winter it was unheated. Little fo...ot stoves with glow- ing embers in them were all that mitigated the most arctic severity. The sermons were probably long, the prayers certainly were. The pews were square, the partitions being nearly as tall as a man. Everybody stood up at prayers. The seats were hinged so that they could be turned up for convenience of leaning. And certainly the 12 CENTENNIAL ORATION. lay Christian ought to have had that convenience. He needed it. It was a provision in favor of life. When you read this quaint entry in Parson Smith's Journal, March 15th, 1740: "Had uncommon assistance; was an hour in each of the first prayers, " you cannot repress the feeling inquiry whether the poor parishioners also had " uncommon assistance.
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