The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statisticsWith a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism . putation for chastity, cleanliness, honesty, industry, and benev-olence. They employ their time in farming, and various mechanicalemployments, such as the manufacture of wooden ware, brooms, Shaker garden seeds are celebrated for their excellence throughoutthe United States. The profits arising from their business transactionsare devoted to a common fund for the support of the whole dress the members of this
The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statisticsWith a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism . putation for chastity, cleanliness, honesty, industry, and benev-olence. They employ their time in farming, and various mechanicalemployments, such as the manufacture of wooden ware, brooms, Shaker garden seeds are celebrated for their excellence throughoutthe United States. The profits arising from their business transactionsare devoted to a common fund for the support of the whole dress the members of this body resemble the Friends or Quakers, towhom many of them originally belonged, except that the materials oftheir clothing are much coarser and cheaper. 59 930 The United Society of Believers, or Shakers. The Shakers are said at present to have in the United States six-teen communities or societies, and about six thousand members andprobationers. They are found in the largest numbers in the States ofOhio, Kentucky, and Indiana. The largest single society is at NewLebanon, about twenty-five miles south-east of Albany, in the Stateof New York. THE ?H E sentiment which has principally givenjjjj rise to this body was embraced by Origenin the third century, and in more moderntimes by the Chevalier Ramsey, Mr. Jere-miah While, Dr. Cheyne, Dr. Hartley, andmany others. The plan of Universal Salva-tion, as exhibited by Dr. Chauncy of Bos-ton, in his work entitled, The Salvationof all Men is as follows:That the scheme of revelation has the happiness of all mankindlying at bottom, as its great and ultimate end : that it gradually tendsto this end, and will not fail of its accomplishment when fully com-pleted. Some, in consequence of its operation, as conducted by theSon of God, will be disposed and enabled in this present state to makesuch improvements in virtue, the only rational preparative for happi-ness, as that they shall enter upon the enjoyment of it in the nextstat
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