Show The Theosophical Summer Best House I Four miles from Corinth and nine miles from Saratoga is the Theosophical Summer Rest house I stands on a farm of 160 acres extending on the west to within two miles of the Hudson The retreat was quietly established two months ago and there are now quite a number of believers in rebirth from New York and Brooklyn and other eastern cities at the farm Miss Lizzie Chapin one of the teachers whom the lady governors gov-ernors of the Wilson Mission dismissed for being a theosophist was the originator origina-tor of the idea but to C H G Masch medt of University place belongs the credit of having contributed the use of the farm of which he is the owner On the farm stands a big barn and a little house and the sojourners are building a big addition to the house I is proposed to make the retreat isa a permanent one so the men put in each several hours a day in digging trenches draining hoeing raking planting etc besides the building the house It is the duty of the women to keep house and furnish three vegetarian meals a day a it ao happens that all the Theosophists at present on the farm are vegetarians Classes are held at regular hours during the day for the study of Theosophy and there is also active propaganda prop-aganda among the farmers Meetings are shortly to be held on the farm to Ire shorty which all farmers in the vicinity will be invited and then the mysteries of the Wisdom Religion J will be unfolded to them I is also proposed to make a conquest con-quest of Saratoga arrangements now being be-ing made to secure a hall there for Sunday Sun-day lect resNew York World |