Show SOCIETY OP OF separatists 11 nearly a century aro ago the village of zoar in ohio wits was settled bv a a re relt olow community which palled called itself the society of the separatists a name descriptive of what was intended to be tw chief fo feature which was a from th rest of the world so 80 fr far as w ma practicable while living in the of its varied social ro relic livious ious and political claps classes and divisions the community MI mtv owr owned d its property in common and originally orie anally numbered about five hundred himori d souls but bilt fitchas found the problem of gew per impossible to solve and tt Us numbers have dwindled dwindt d until only OIT ninety two are left tt owns aw 7 00 acres of very valuable land da daa and A a lot of blooded liva hv block bP bailles illes othor other property pron pro nerty arty the sor aul hrs of the how have agreed to di disband abord and a divi division stion of at their common cow tinon has imst been made thus terminates one more alc ear periapt peri ment pt in the abi way or of communism kodeli d after the modal order which the apostles or of vhf the established among almonr the parly early christiana the dissolution of this society is in not wilhoit wit hoit features of sa cadmas aness edly its original members wore were devout people who earnestly sought gl ft better way of life than the cont contending odine that rn make ake up modern ch christendom ra pt adom could teach them tham chev realf tod tue the of subduing the that is innate in man and according cording ae to the highest firlit he ht thov hod had they se set about this rp result and tho thov they v succeeded succeed dod Ad to a extent for tho the conle i of boar wn who for a hi hm arall ara have held bold all their pron rv in connon have shown tea rf of lf 1 than lh tovo v annat art attro tho th anre of nf tinto imin PA P A hr av love ahey so gono ht an M ah hab boa fallen tn rolna amt tho of 7 ifor nor was waft rio nf ard ch armier mir nince tta tt ina an red abw ctt att too tp a afta of noor find ift if amov etiva enacts eff ets to mara it a V mecca for vo conr nr fand for pr rt t tl aff or 0 jq H ahrns arms ara ar mahor nii her 4 X NOW that the lands on which it bands have joe game come individual property they oinbe will be proved with modern structures and the me village of zoar as it has been for nearly a century like the social and re balous tous order of its first inhabitants will recede into the historic past and be lost to the view of living men |