Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 edition. Excerpt: ...people," this book would hardly rank as a poetical effusion. It is rather a tirade against the sins of the flesh. Some very pointed and plain truths are told in language seeking to convey to the Shaker heart, unmistakable words, -some particular sin to be ostracized, which fully expresses the ideas which inspired the founders of the order. We note some of the unique titles of the hymns: "Cause and Effect of Man's Fall," "Resolution against a Carnal Nature," "Make thy Garden Grow," "Natural and Spiritual Relation," and many others of like character in this book of two hundred and eighty-eight pages. In the year 1790, a community of the Shakers was gathered in the town of Hancock, Mass., and in the month of September Elder Calvin Harlow was appointed to take charge of that Community. At the same time, Sister Sarah Harrison was appointed to the Ministry. The other officers were selected from the members of the Hancock Society. Thus was successfully launched another branch from the parent Society at Mount Lebanon, which has now already entered upon its second centennial year. In the following May, 1791, a community was gathered at Harvard, Mass., making the fourth Shaker Society in its order of establishment. The parent Society appointed Eleazer Rand and Hannah Kendall over this branch. In the month of February, 1792, another branch was established at Canterbury, N. H., under the guidance of Job Bishop and Hannah Goodrich. At the same time two other branches were established, one at Enfield, Conn., and the other in Shirli-y, Mass; that at Enfield, under Calvin Harlow and Sarah Harrison, and at Shirley under the ministerial guidance of Eleazer Rand and Hannah Kendall. The Shaker Community at Shirley, ...
