...n more were read and sung, so the psalms and hymns were said to be deaconed. Sometimes the deacon had a pitch-pipe to sound, thus assisting in getting the pitch or keynote. Organs were unknown in New England , as also hot-air and steam heaters, and over a century was yet to roll away ere a stove was installed in a Medford meetinghouse. Our observation is that the taking of the Sabbath collection—o...