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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, The Puritan minister. (search)
st be no prayer uttered. The secret was, that the traditions of the English and Romish Churches must be systematically set aside. Doctor, said King James to a Puritan divine, do you go barefoot because the Papists wear shoes and stockings? Even the origin of the frequent New England habit of. eating salt fish on Saturday is supposed to have been the fact that Roman Catholics eat it on Friday. But if there were no prayers said on these occasions, there were sermons. Mr. John Calf, of Newbury, described one specimen of funeral sermon in immortal verse-- On Sabbath day he went his way, As he was used to do, God's house unto, that they might know What he had for to show; God's holy will he must fulfil, For it was his desire For to declare a sermon rare Concerning Madam Fryer. The practice of wedding discourses was handed down into the last century, and sometimes beguiled the persons concerned into rather startling levities. For instance, when Parson Smith's daughter Mary was t