Show A FAMILY OF SHAKE SHAKERS RS lion if worldly plan P lan ar an SImia coil W ill HIB ts tile the Warren Warrens sv ville ilia shakers shaken make yearly I 1 reports to tile elders at union village vill ohio and ata are visited yearly by ali eliom em each ianuly la is in charge of 0 an of eljer elder miner being the head 0 of the conter center family and elder watson andrews andrew at the head of the north family ai ully tho the buel bual ness of ilia alio Warrens warrensville ville society la Is in the lie hands of 0 trustees tru all property belongs belonga to the society fast aa a body being consecrated to god and its worldly ownership extends as far as 03 ilia lie present society at Le lebanon ballon when a person tile the society an inventory of lui iiii sohaib pw 0 o lions nona la is taken and it if he be concludes t to withdraw all la Is returned if he chooses to do so BO lie ran can consecrate the property and put it into the hands handa of the church properly speaking each family settle merit consists con sisti of 0 one ona large dirgo develling house where oil all tile the members have separate rooms with such other buildings as aa their occupations may inay malie make necessary industry la Is comp compulsory 11 Y 31 1 times bed timo time milking afine M and d ilia time to rise nao la Is signaled on it bell on the roof of the dwelling bouse if any person wishes to bo be excused from whatever work lie he Is given to do he to must gain the bonsen t of the older elder there aro alre seventeen societies in faille alie country as follows mount lebanon mid and sonyea son yea in ili new nen york west litts littlfield field ayer and shirley in massachusetts shaker station in con Sl chaker village and enfield in now hampshire alfred and west gloucester lit in maine Flea pleasant sant hill and south union in kentucky and water buet union village and north union in ohio the worship ot of ha chii believe rv Iti spur ported was supernaturally revealed to nother mother ann lee it la is principally marching find and singing BS as is hereafter described A meetinghouse meeting house is built at every settlement the women occupy one half and the men inert the other half ithe alio vider rider hns has charge ol of the services vices and to ehg people the members give their testimony wh whence c n t 0 in inclined uttie is done in the her way of oral prayer the shakers shaken believe that every breath should be a prayer that prayer Is a feeling impossible to express in word defore and after each meal they kneel eel at their chairs irr silent devotion unmeet in meeting the dancing is conducted by the men and women tint first arising aad standing in two separate rows they march backward and forward singing earnestly and when sufficiently warmed lip up durms bealls li tada and bodies keep time with the or of tho visitors wera often attracted to the tha meetinghouse meeting house by those peculiar exercises and the levity that they nearly always displayed display edre resulted in the doors being closed to till all outsiders nho ho appeared to be actuated by curiosity the origin of then the name tune shakers la Is apparent the fact that it waa vas unit used and la is yet in tiny any but a ro tul way did dia not prevent the serene serena Kt Ile lievers from recognizing it or even from giving it the dignity ot of actual adoption cor cleveland leader |