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Surely, even if the church expected tithes, they would only expect any particular family to contribute up to a maximum of one-tenth of the total family income? They could hardly expect to get a tenth three times over.
Three times in one day sounds a bit excessive for young children, and a bit of an imposition on the poor minister if he had to write three different sermons every week.
Though I suppose that three brief services might be preferable to the Glasite services which lasted so many hours that they had to take a break for soup half-way though, hence the denomination being nicknamed the 'Kail Kirk'. (For those mystified by that, kail is the Scots word for cabbage.)
I don't think they visited one church three times each Sunday. They were Scots living in a thriving Yorkshire town and I know that practically every street seemed to have a church of some description.
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