---
title: 'Decorum Due to Public Worship'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'William Buell Sprague'
date: 1834-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Public Worship'
- 'Hymnody and Psalmody'
scriptures:
- 'Matthew 6'
- 'Isaiah 6'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/sprague-1834-decorum-due-to-public-worship
---

# Decorum Due to Public Worship

An 1833 address urging reverent, orderly decorum in public worship. It calls for brief, sincere prayer and tasteful singing, and warns against distraction, gawking, and irreverence.

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