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The practices among Christians have corresponded thereto. The Palatine churches in Germany adhered tenaciously to the Calvinistic doctrine, and they may be considered to have formed the head and front of the Presbyterian church in the 16th cen- tury; yet it was only on the morning of the first day of the week that public meetings were held. In the afternoon, the gentlemen took to hawking and hunting, if the day w^as fit for either; visiting their friends, or whatever else was pleasing to them. ...The husbandman spent the greater part of the after- noon in looking over his grounds, ordering his cattle, and following such recreations as were most agreeable to his nature and education;* and it re- mains so, to a great extent, in the Protestant churches in Germany to the present day. At Ge- * Heylyn's History of the Presbyterians. , 5 54 INSTITUTION OF THE neva, on Sunday morning, the gates are closed, the meeting-houses are opened, and people are expected to attend them. The after part of the day is a pe- riod of rest, and of innocent amusement.
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