Gleanings From Old Shaker Journals, Compiled By Clara Endicott Sears

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The publisher of this book utilises modern printing technologies as well as photocopying processes for reprinting and preserving rare works of literature that are out-of-print or on the verge of becoming lost. This book is one such reprint. General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1916 Original Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Subjects: Religion / Christianity / Shaker Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: VII SOWING THE SEED When Mother Ann and the Elders went forth on their journey, they were in no way ignorant of the dangers involved. Already they had learned through direful experience that they could not count upon either hospitality or kindness, and as they went from one village to another, and from town to town, suspicion and antagonism followed them. But in spite of this they made many converts. Men and women, both young and old, were drawn to them despite popular prejudice, and hundreds came to Mother Ann, and questioned her, and to all she preached the confession of sins, the life of self- denial, the rejection of the world, and the adoption of the laws of the spirit. She also expounded to them the law of non-resistance, of loving their enemies, -- "The soft answer turneth away wrath," she would tell them, -- and often those who were the most obdurate' at first became her most ardent followers, and proclaimed with greatest vehemence that in her the Christ Spirit was made manifest. It was a time of deep unrest in the religious world. Signs and wonders were looked for and expected, and the prophesying, the communications with the spirit world, the entrance of the spirit into a body and twisting it and turning it inlviolent contortions, the speaking in unknown tongues, -- all of which formed an integralpart of the Shaker religion, -- had a magnetic effect upon those of emotional temperament, and drew them, despite themselves, into the circle of influence which these strange people seemed to possess. It was this stron...

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Book Name Gleanings From Old Shaker Journals, Compiled By Clara Endicott Sears
Author Clara Endicott Sears
Publisher General Books (Dec 2009)
ISBN 9781150664069
Pages 160
Language English
Price 1283
 
 

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