Today In History

Bishop Hall Delivers Sermon in Brattleboro

Event date: Feb 16, 1894

In his sermon Sunday evening Bishop Hall admonished his hearers that it was of individual and specific sins that they should repent in Lent. In the list he mentioned the pet self-indulgence of not getting up in the morning, and added, in a sort of aside, “and of not going to bed at night.”

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