Emphasis Preaching Journal

In Colonial America each household was required to keep a leather bucket next to the front door. If the alarm of fire was sounded, each homeowner would immediately stop what he was doing, grab the leather bucket, go outdoors and join the bucket brigade. If you watched the HBO movie John Adams starring Paul Giamatti, in the first act Adams heard the cry of fire. He got up from his writing desk, grabbed his bucket, and then, since it was in the middle of a Boston winter, tried desperately to find a water pump that was not frozen.