Memorial of Captain Thomas Abbey, his ancestors and descendants of the Abbey family, pathfinders, soldiers and pioneer settlers of Connecticut, its Western Reserve in Ohio and the great West .. . e the timbrel was the fore-runner of the modern drum, a sort of hand drum whose noisecame like the drumbeat of to-day, by percussion, and I amtalking of the drumbeat which is needed in our present day todrum the people out of church. I understand well the first dutyof the minister as captain of the company of this day, is to 184 drum the people into church. They tell the story in some ofthe old New En
Memorial of Captain Thomas Abbey, his ancestors and descendants of the Abbey family, pathfinders, soldiers and pioneer settlers of Connecticut, its Western Reserve in Ohio and the great West .. . e the timbrel was the fore-runner of the modern drum, a sort of hand drum whose noisecame like the drumbeat of to-day, by percussion, and I amtalking of the drumbeat which is needed in our present day todrum the people out of church. I understand well the first dutyof the minister as captain of the company of this day, is to 184 drum the people into church. They tell the story in some ofthe old New England villages, before the bell was purchasedand hung in the steeple, while clocks and watches were few, thatin order to tell the people when it was time to go to church a-little drum corps, three or four drummers, came down the villagestreet and as the people heard it and looked out to see theirown boys beating the drum, they said, It is time now to go tomeeting, and so arrayed in Sunday best—which was not alwaysso fine a fabric as clothes the people now—they turned out oftheir houses and followed the drummer to the door of thechurch, where they entered reverently with bowed heads to. MISS MAE E. McKEEVER, Singer and Elocutionist Photograph by Harry G. Potter, of Newark worship God and hear the lesson of the hour. I understand fully that it is our duty as captains of com-panies here to go out and drum the people in, to tell them whenit is time to go to church, and inform them the duties of thehour. We go up and down the streets visiting the homes of thepeople ; we go into the homes of the parents of the pupils ofour Sunday School, and we beg them to come with their chil-dren to the house of God; and this, however successful we maybe in the work, seems to be the first duty of the hour. But weunderstand that church-going is not always, or is not all of 185 religion. You know, one of our poets who hated the MexicanWar, in 1849, said: Whats the use of meetin goin every Sunday,
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