...were better prepared to receive the good minister's simple words about right living. The men all sat on one side of the church, and the women on the other, as is the custom still in many country congregations. The minister's wife was no mean organist, and...

...service, which was chanted by a male chorus concealed behind a carved screen near the altar. The men stood on one side of the church, and the women on the other, and at places in the service they knelt and prostrated themselves until their foreheads touched the...

...protect it from the Indians! Families were not allowed to sit together in church. The men sat on benches on one side of the church and the women on the other. The boys and girls sat in separate places, sometimes on the gallery stairs and sometimes on the steps...