public worship contributed much to a profitable hearing of the gospel. The
first stove we have heard of in Massachusetts for a meeting-house was put
up by the First congregation of Boston in 1773. In Salem the Friends'
Society had two plate-stoves brought from Philadelphia in 1793. The North
Church had one in 1809; the South had a brick Russian stove in 1812. About
the same date the First Church had a stove and the Tabernacle had one also.
The objections that [to heat churches] was contrary to the custom of their
hardy fathers and mothers, [and that it] was an indication of extravagance
and degeneracy, had ceased to be advanced. Not a few remember the general
knocking of feet on cold days and near the close of long sermons. On such
occasions the Rev. Dr. Hopkins used to say, now and then: 'My hearers, have
a little patience, and I will soon close.'"

Mr. Felt says that Hugh Peters (one of the ministers of the First Church)
was represented by an English painter as in a pulpit with a large assembly
before him, turning an hour-glass and using these words: "I know you are
good fellows, stay and take another glass."

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The Lord's Day in Connecticut in 1788.

ANECDOTE.

A Gentleman in the State of Connecticut, regularly attended
publick worship on the Lord's day with all his family: On the
Sunday evening he always catechised his children and servants on
the principles of religion, and what they heard the minister
deliver from the pulpit. He had a negro man who never could
remember a note of the sermon, though otherwise smart. At last