Taiping worship was congregational, plain and compulsory. The kingdom printed its own liturgy — hymns, prayers, a form for grace before meals — and issued it as state documents; a household said grace over rice under the same text used in Nanjing. Sabbath observance was enforced, and the enforcement is the point at which this stops being a congregation and becomes a state church. Missionary visitors described services as decorous and well attended and were unsettled by how little resemblance the theology bore to their own.