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Early Christian Worship

At these meetings they told each other of the trials they had suffered in their homes; they confessed to one another their sins and doubts, or related the blessings received in answer to their earnest prayers. In their underground church they listened to sermons from their elders, and perhaps heard read a letter from one of the apostles. They then partook of the bread and the wine, in memory of Him whose blood was shed for them, and they kissed one another when the love-feast was ended.
At these meetings there was no distinction of rank; the high-born lady sat by the slave whom she had once scarcely looked upon as a man. Humility and submission were among the chief virtues of the early Christians; slavery had not been forbidden by the apostles, because it was believed that those who were the lowest in this world would be the highest in the next. Slavery was therefore considered a state of grace, and some Christians appear to have refused their freedom on religious grounds, for St. Paul exhorts such persons to become free if they can.
John Foxe, Foxe's Christian Martyrs of the World