Gleanings from old Shaker journals, compiled by Clara Endicott Sears . erve them in the same manner. It ought also to be remarked, that the conduct andtestimony of the Believers, while on the road, had atendency to exasperate the Devil, and excite his emis-saries to greater acts of cruelty than they probably wouldhave committed had the Believers remained most of the Believers were very young in the faith;many of them had believed but a few months, and werefull of zeal and power, and being divested of all fear ofman, they would sing and praise God on the road, thatthey were counted w
Gleanings from old Shaker journals, compiled by Clara Endicott Sears . erve them in the same manner. It ought also to be remarked, that the conduct andtestimony of the Believers, while on the road, had atendency to exasperate the Devil, and excite his emis-saries to greater acts of cruelty than they probably wouldhave committed had the Believers remained most of the Believers were very young in the faith;many of them had believed but a few months, and werefull of zeal and power, and being divested of all fear ofman, they would sing and praise God on the road, thatthey were counted worthy to suffer persecution for theGospels sake. And again, when the mob attempted to whip andbeat one, others would cry out, Dont whip him, ifyou must whip anybody, whip me, and immediatelythrow themselves in the way to take the blows. Suchgenuine marks of Christianity were too much for theseed of Cain to endure. Others would reprove and admonish them for theircruelty, telling them that the judgments of God wouldcertainly follow them for these things. This was only. THE HOUSE OF THADDEUS POLLARDIt was to this old tree that (lie mob tied Abijah Worster, and beat him, on the memo-rable day when they drove the distant Shakers out of the town of Harvard OUT-OF-TOWN SHAKERS DRIVEN AWAY 91 answered by a repetition of profane curses, and greaterabuse. But these predictions were evidently fulfilled;the judgments of God did follow those persecutors in aremarkable manner. Many of them, who were men ofrespectable standing in the town of Harvard, and inaffluent circumstances, fell under judgments — ran outtheir estates, and came to poverty and beggary; anda blast among their persecutors was so general and somanifest, that men of candor and observation said,Those Shakers drivers are all coming to nothing.(Signed) Abijah Worster. Richard Treat. Isaac Crouch, and others. XV VISIT TO THE HARVARD SHAKERS IN 1782 BYGOVERNOR PLUMMER OF NEW HAMPSHIRE During the summer of 1782 many were drawn to
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