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Updated: June 19, 2025
"You will readily perceive that I allude to the Shakers; a people who are enjoying privileges among us which no other people enjoy, except the Friends, called also Quakers: and who are debarred from no privileges excepting those from which they either religiously or superstitiously debar themselves.
Yet among their disciples, the Quakers, the Methodists, and the Shakers they were held by the most implicit veneration and can any man believe that they did not think themselves thus well payed for the trouble of making converts? It is true that the Apostles did not acquire riches, for they were conversant only with the poor.
I asked; and an eldress replied, "Yes, we like to take children but we don't like to take monkeys;" and, in general, the Shakers have discovered that "blood will tell," and that they can do much better with the children of religious parents than with those whose fathers or mothers were dissolute or irreligious.
"And we'll tell Fardie about Polly Reed and the little quail bird, won't we?" "Yes; but he and Jack will have a great deal to say to us, and we must n't talk all the time about the dear, kind Shakers, you know!" "You're all 'buts, Mardie!" at which Susanna smiled through her tears.
Now, you wait a bit, mates, and you'll see I'm right." There were several melancholy shakes of the head at this, indicative of a belief on the part of the shakers that these prognostications would prove only too true. "But what's all this got to do with piratin'?" persisted Parsons. "Oh well why, everything," returned Williams.
"Is this a graveyard?" Athalia demanded, impetuously. "Yee," he said, smiling; "it's our burial-place; we're Shakers." "But why are there just the stakes without names?" "Why should there be names?" he said, whimsically; "they have new names now." "Where is your community? Can we go and visit it?" "Yee; but we're not much to see," he said; "just men and women, like you. Only we're happy.
She said that to be faithful and thorough in every thing, even in getting dinner ready, was a real way of serving God, and pleased Him too, because He looks beyond things, and sees the spirit in which we do them. At three o'clock the wagon came to the door, and they said good-by to the kind Shakers. Miss Fitch paid for the dinner; but the elder was not willing to take much.
"We Shakers are given to hospitality," he said; "we're always looking for the angel we are going to entertain unawares. Come along home with us, Lewis."
"There's children-Shakers, and brother-and-sister Shakers, but no father-and-mother Shakers?" "No; they think they can do just as much good in the world without being mothers and fathers." "Do you think so?" "Ye-es, I believe I do." "Well, are you a truly Shaker, or can't you be till you wear a cap?" "I'm not a Shaker yet, Sue." "You're just only a mother?" "Yes, that's about all."
But that they take as proselytes, persons so young that they cannot know their own minds, and cannot possess much strength of resolution in this or any other respect, I can assert from my own observation of the extreme juvenility of certain youthful Shakers whom I saw at work among the party on the road.
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