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i THE NEWTON EVENING NOVEMBER 1897 us who read it, in view of the peculiar symbol, emblematic. It signifies the new conrenant of God with man, and the first Son into the new spiritual creation. LIFE WITH SHAKERS. SEE RAY flew Mayings and Mew Carpets At this season are of prime importance to every housekeeper. Our fall stock of elegant and up-to-date patterns has just been opened and is redy for your inspection, at prices that will surprise you.

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Abundance. All Vaiieties Choice Meats. Celery in NEWTON MEAT There's the same difference in the looks of the Genuine Round Oak and an imitation that thete is between a fine highbred horse and a scrub. The 0 0 "There was to be a second appear- mce of the -Christ spirit in its glory, not of Jesus, but of Christ manifest ing in and through the form of woman, the glory to man. The second appearance of this wave or the Christ spirit was manifested in and through woman in the form of Annie Lee, the blacksmith's daughter.

'There are two ci cations old and new the male and female. Adam, the husbaud of Eve, inaugurated the old creation, marriage, and generation. Jesus Christ Adam the seeord the Lord from Heaven, a quicken ing spirit, inaugurated the new crea tion, virgin purity and regeneration its lundamental laws. The nrst Adam the sower of the world; the second Adam, the reaper, the har vester of the world. 'The day of judgment of every soul commences when- Drought to the Christ tribunal, whether in this or in the spirit world.

The end of the world has come to every soul, now or hereafter, who is born of the spirit into the kingdom of Christ. 'In Ann the blacksmith daugl ter, was manifested the second appearance of Christ, which appearance, the female the same Christ manifested in the transforma tion in Jesus, the carpenter's son, seventeen centuries betore Christ, the Father of Spiritual Creation, is the first-born of the Spirit Anna Lee, the mother in regeneration, is the second appearing of Christ. 1 he lollowing are some of the questions louiid in a volume for Jsible classes: 'Q. What is the chief end of man? 'A. To grow and unfold by serv ing his fellows; to obey the highest light; to fit himself for a higher light and then to love it.

How can you define spirit? A pure spirit is visible im- mtiterial substance. It may lie organized or elementary. "(J. What is organized spirit? A spirit in form of intelligent beings having organs. hat is an elementary spirit? A spirit in its mostsimple and diffusive form.

Electricity, perhaps, may be regarded as the spirit of matter. How is spirit distributed what may be said of its use? 'A. It is the nutriment, light, life and intelligence of the soul. 'It can be seen that there are few points which a modem spiritualist, a disciple of medical science, a faith cure, healer, theologian, a Bible stud ent or a newspaper reader can give the Shaker. STCDY BIBLE AXD NEWSPAPER.

'Alter study into the spiritual life. the main intellectual studies of the Shakers are the Bible and newspaper political, lhey are familiar with the names of he political leaders. their character and principle and with the religions which are now- raging in the world. During the course of my stay they referred to uch religious leaders as Lyman, Ab bott, Dr. Hriggs, Archbishop, Cor- rigan, cardinal tiibbons, Dr.

Mc- Glynn, Thomas Dixon, and many others. "The Shakers are likewise interest ed in tne lauor movement ana Knows the names and characteristics of the labor and socialistic leaders. They frequently referred Powderly, l)e Leon and others. 'While the Shakers sprang from the Quakers, they do not use the thee and thou. Iheir only peculiarity in the language is in using the "yea and nay." Unlike the Quakers also, the Shakers cultivate music and song and a sort of dance and march which they use in religious worship.

Each Shaker family, even when composed of but a few persons, holds its own religious meetings. 'As a rule, one family does not meet the other family in religious worship. During the summer, how ever, from July to September, all the iaumies join religious ouservauce on Sundays. The Sunday meetings are attended by l'ittfield and Lenox. IX THE MEETINGS.

'At a religious meeting attended in the North family on Sunday the other visitor and myself were requested by a deacon not to stand or take any part the services, i tie meeting commenced by the brothers and sisters inarching into the room and facing each other standing, the men on one side the women on the other. After a few moments of silence a hymn was selected from the volume of 'Original Shaker Music' nnd sung to creditable music with great feeling and reverence. Then came a simple, plain, earnest dis course by EluerGreves, the substance of which was the value of the test! mony and the truth of the gospel as manifested by Jesus and Ann Lee. A tree is known by its fruits. The fruits of Shakerism are peace and love, with no jails, no saloons, no poverty and no communal life.

The Elder was confident that Shakerism would never die out. It was the duty of the Shakers, he said, to be stead fast in their Christ life, but also so interest themselves in the news of the outside world, that they might better Dear testimony against the rich, against the monopolies taking from labor its earnings, against us ury, interest and the like. "After a song, the eldress, Anna hite, ioiioweu with similar remarks in beautiful language, brief and concise. A song caine ext succeeded by a march of all the mem bers around the room, accompanied by a musical chant, to hich each member, with open hands waving to and from tne body kept time. This march continued for some minutes.

when the Shakers halted and sung a song, after which an address was made by a sister, a woman of evi dent culture, education and refine ment, who spoke In this wise: 'There is necessity in celibate life and purity in thought and deed to achieve the brightestspiritual life The spiritual is opposed to the nat ural anu animai. sne said that the crucifixion of the lower nature would bo succeeded by a higher and more complete spiritual In the phal OAK the death or his animal nature, ana might also tipify the crucifixion of humanity upon animalty. The popular Christian religion reversed th meaning and spirit in the symbol of ancient phallic worship. "Alter more songs and addresses the meeting was dismissed, the visitors being requested to leave the room before the congregation. "Upon the death of a member fu neral services are held, but a Shaker graveyarl contains no stones nor monuments.

'The North family are vegeta rians. The other Shaker families at Mount Lebanon are not. The food of all the families is of the very and cooked in the very best manner. 'Ths Shakers adopt children. Only about three per cent of the boys brough up remain after they are twenty-one years of age and become Shakers.

Among the girls, the percentage of those remairing is larger. 'In the dining room observed hanging in' a frame this quotation; Gather up the iragments that noth ing may be followed by verses the effect that in eating, no more food should be taken upon our plates than what we ate that 'nothing be "I was told there was more neces-itv of restraining members from over-work than in urging him to do his share of labor. A FREE SOCIAL LIFE. "The morning after I readied the Shaker village I was put to work hoeing, mowing, at my request. worked alone and ate aione, out ne-ame acquainted With most of the brothers nnd several of the sisters.

I found the social life among the Shakers free and broad, bounded only by the law of celibacy, whic'i they claim is not bondage, but tree-! dom to those who seek a spiritual1 life, and which no one rcqualnted with the character and life the Shakers doubt that they observe strictly. "In going around the premises 1 was first struck with tne extreme neatness and cleanliness and the most perfect that prevailed; secondly with the extent and amount of improved machinery in use. The village being on a mountain sine, with an abundance of water, the latter is utilized. "Water moves machinery, is car ried in pipes through the buildings, barns and yards, and can be used to irrigate a considerable extent. The large stone oarn to tne rsorui lumny is one of the most costly and com plete that 1 have ever seen.

It is a verv plain building, but ciuui hoi now be erected for less than 'I found there all the best agricul tural machinery. Many of the inventions were of Shaker origin. 'One criticism that might be made here is the great waste the effectiveness of their machinery, by the different Shaker families not joining in the use of machinery, each family have separate plants. For instance the laundry of the North family is capable of doing the washing of a thousand persons, itsnoiuu uo me laundry for the whole village. It does the laundry of only thirty peo ple.

"An elderly Shaker told nie that the Shakers now spend on an average of 1 10 per capita on the outside world where they formerly spent out one dollar." "At Lnst." At last we have becured an expert baker and will start a wagon to be run daily to all parts of the city, to begin Friday, Oct 29, '97. Although we have had some trouble with our baking, we have now secured a first class baker and respectfully solicit the patronage of our former patrons and of all new ones wishing first class goods delivered at your door. Leave your name and number at the "Don Ton" nnd we will promptly call on you. Have you catarrh In ttie head then consult Dr. Crider t'ie eminent Specialist.

II will sit you down in a chair. put a bowl in your lap aud in five minutes be will extract from your head aud throat from a half to one pint of abnormal catarrh mucus, and will give you $100 if be fails, and be delles anv person on earth to, do the same thins. Now do not cry hum-bug but come and see for yourself. IDs dates at Newton are Friday and Saturday, December 3 and 4. at Clark House.

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You want to be remembered on 1 these days. You want to be happy yourself and ljnd happiness ti others. The uendino' of a nhoto would please many fond friends, I can please your friends anu please you who new style pnotos, II 11! 11 A Reporter Calls on the Famous Shaker Doctor And Learns Many New Things About the Shakers, 0 Their Peculiar Religious Beliefs and Customs. What the Doctor has to Say of Their General Health. The Shaker Company Now at Work in Newton Relieving the Suffering From all Parts of the County.

Having been informed that the Shaker doctor was here and would remain several days in the interest of the Shaker medicines, a reporter visited the man of medicine at his rooms to get, if possible, a sketch of Shaker life. He expressed himself as pleased to give any information relating to the Shakers, but the demands upon his time being so pressing he referred the reporter to an article written by Edward W.Sterling. attorney, 112 Nassau street, 2se.w York City, and which was published in the New York World of Sunday, July 12, 181X1. It reads as follows 'Having heard, read and thought of Shakers for several years, and having studied the different systems communism and of religion, I at last determined to visit Mount Le banon. I desired to see something of the kingdom of heaven on earth, to talk to those who know of the Savior's second appearing, and if possible to learn by direct contract witn tnein something or the lives oi the men and women.

I have been, seen and am convinced of the beauty of the Shaker life. "After some correspondence with the Shakers and an interview with a Shaker elder who happened to be in New lorkCity, 1 went in June to the Shaker village of Mount Lebanon, which extends a couple of miles along the JNew lorksuleof the iierkshire hills. The land owned by the Shak ers reaches to the Massachusetts state line, and is about three miles wide and six miles Ions. 'The Shakers in the village now number about two hundred. There were formerly three or four times that number.

It is made up of five distinct families, known respectively as the North Church, Middle, Second, nnd South families. Each fam ily has a district group of builuings, is composed of both sexes and all ages, and its relation to the other families business anairs is that or ordinary families in the outside world. The Shaker families are subject to the rules of celibacy aid the religious and temporal direction of the elders of each family, of which there are two of each sex. THE NOHTH FAMILY. "The first group of dwellings I reached vere the North family.

A Shaker introduced me to Elder Chas. (Jreves, who is about seventy years old. but has few of the infirmities of that age. I explained the object of my visit anil the next day was at work in the field. Shakers are very intelligent.

They are well up in all the points of so-called modern spiritualism. 1 he doctrines of mental science cure and faith cure in disease are accepted, in some measure, by the Shakers. They accent, generally, the result of modern science as presented in the newspapers, but I saw no work of Spencer or Comte or Professors Huxley, Clifford or Tyndal. "They seem to get their scientific knowledge from the press. I did not see a volume of poems by any worldly author.

While the Shakers are poetically inclined, their poetry is inspired towards heavenly things, Thev have two good sized volumes of verse of nearly 300 pages ech, which songs are set to music and sunt? at their religi us meetings. "The elder, in answer to aquestion, said he thought Shakespear's power of expression was great, but he was simply a poet of this world, and that le Shakers old not nave much use for his or any other poetry that was not inspired by true spiritual life. The elder continually referred to the cardinal principles of Shakerism, which was the obtaining of a higher spiritual power by a celtbrate life. "The Shakers claim they have no creed and that their true religion consists n.t so much In a belief as in a life, not so much faith in Jesus as in doing Christ work. Concernln the belief of the Shakers.

I receive from the elder and from other sources during my stay, the following; THE SHAKER'S CREED. "1, Belief in God and a spirit being, and that mediatorial intelligence reveaiea uou a truth to man "2. Jesus, baptized with the Christ spirit, became the first of these ini portant messengers, the mediator of 1 ft Looks high class, in proportion, perfect in operation. Nothing but the bt material p-ops into its construction, and ifs fitiins is far bet- ter than any other stove on it leads? Can you do without one this winter? Look out for scrubs- See the name on the leg. SOLD ONLY BY dland 1 0 OFFICERS.

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m. and 2 to 6 p. m. Women and children's diseases a specialty. lie worship of ancient Egypt, which worship of sex generation existed countless ages before the appearance of Jesus, the cross was the chief emblem of generation.

This should be symbolic iu its lesson to us. The fact of the crucifixion of Jesus upon the cross related in the Bible was to i D.Tripp.