Evening Star Newspaper, April 27, 1930, Page 124

ADOPTED BY THE PURITANS oF THE MASSACHUSETTS BAay COLONY GAVE THE PURITAN CHURCH SUPREME POWER - THEIR ONLY BOOK OF LAW WAS THE BIBLE,AND ALL THOSE WHO HELD OFFICE WERE PILLARS OF THE CHURCH. THE RULES OF LIFE LAID DOWN BY THE PURITAN ELDERS WERE CALCULATED TO KEEP THE FAITHFUL INTHE PATH - OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AND DISCOLRAGE THE "LINGODLY | -EACHNG THE MEETING NOLISE, THE MEN AND BOYS LEFT THEIR GUNS OUTSIDE, AND TOOK THEIR PLACES ON ONE $IDE OF THE BIG ROOM, WHILE THE WOMEN AND GIRLS SAT ON THE OTHER. P HABITS AS WELL As CRIMES WERE SEVERELY PUNISHED UNDER THE PURITAN LAWS. ALL PUNISHMENTS WERE INFLICTED PUBLICLY SO THAT OTHERS MIGHT TAKE WARNING:. . !'r NINE OCLOCK EACH N|GHT THE RINGING OF THE BELL ANNOUNCED THE CURFEW HOUR WHEN EVERYONE HAD TO GO TO BED> HE SERMONS WERE AL- WAYS VERY LONG, AND FREQUENTLY SOME OF THE CONGREGATION WOuLD FALL SABBATH | BREAKER |} I3 OR SWEARING, DRUNKEN- NESS,LVING OR BREAKING THE SABBATH, A MAN WAS LIABLE 7O BE LOCKED IN THE "STOCKS " FOR ATERM, —M8M—- W//&V% v An‘ \Wfl -N THE EARLY MORNING (4 30 AM. INTHE SUMMER. TIME) THE BELL RANG AGAIN TO SUMMON ALL PURITANS TO BE UP AND> DOING. — .HE’T:THNGMAN"KEPT THE -DROWSY ONES AWAKE BY TICKLING THEM WITH A RAB- BITS TAW-TIED TO THE END OF A LONG STAFF. ° !anew:-s AND VAGRANTS SUFFERE]D> TERRIFIC DISCOM - FORT IN THE "PILLORY,ONE OF THE UNIQUE PUNISHMENTS EM- |- PLOYED BY THE PURITAN AUTHORITIES VEQ‘IBOP‘/ WAS COMPELLED BY LAW TO ATTEND CHURCH TWICE EACH SUNDAY, FEAR OF INDIANS LED THE MEN TO GO TO CHURCH ARMED A CULPRIT CONTINUED TO DOZE,HE WAS SURE TO RE- CEWE A SHARP RAP WITH THE RABBITS FOOT AT THE OTHER END OF THE TITHINGMANS STAFF. -NYONE WHO TALKED AGAINST THE PURITAN CHURCH RISKED BEING SENTENCED> TO THE "DUCKING STooL” ° TO BE CONTINUED.