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Identifier: aletheiaspirit00mace (find matches)
Title: The Aletheia : spirit of truth, a series of letters in which the principles of the United Society known as Shakers are set forth and illustrated.
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Mace, Aurelia Gay, 1835-1910
Subjects: Shakers
Publisher: Farmington, Maine : Press of Knowlton, McLeary & Co.
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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a great measure unknown toyou. The writer says that the Shaker brothers are honest.All that they sell proves to be just what they represent,and with the next breath, that the rhythm of theirmotions indicates We are nothing, less than nothing.An honest man nothing but a dream! To me therhythm of their motions means, We are the noblestwork of God ! Now let us inform you, who see so little to admire inthe pure life the Shakers lead, that we often see as muchin your lives, in your beliefs and in your manner of dressthat seems strange and unaccountable to us, as you canpossibly see in ours that seems, strange and unaccount- 68 THE ALETHEIA. able to you. But we will wait for the future to weigh all things, knowing that the truth will finally prevail. Gods ways seem dark, yet soon or lateThey touch the shining hills of day;The evil cannot brook delay,The good can well afford to wait; Give ermined knaves their hour of crime,Ye have the future, grand and great,The safe appeal of truth to time.
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FATHERS AND MOTHERS, AN HUNDREDFOLD GREETING. (From the ManifestoP^ New Gloucester, April, 1884. You whose spirits are replete with that perfect lovewhich casteth out fear, in you is found that charity whichnever faileth, binding up the broken-hearted, strengthen-ing the weak, and comforting the afBicted. In you isfound that power which healeth the sick of sin, castethout the spirits of evil, and giveth sight to those who areblinded to the true light and life. By giving up all you have received all. For every sac-rifice that you have made of selfish pleasures, an hundredfold of spiritual blessings has filled your cup to overflow-ing, and the pathway in which you walk is leading younearer to the fountain of all good, nearer and nearer toGod. A few short years here in which to teach your disciplesand followers to do as you have done, to live as you havelived, and then the real home in the Heaven of Glory isopened unto you. ■JO THE ALETHEIA. They are slipping away, these sweet, swift y
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