New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-02-02
Sunrise.
SHAkERISM.

The Tabernacle was well filed on Thursday evening
with audience curious to listen to exposition of
the doctrines of Shakerdom from F. w. EVANS q
member of that Society. Mr.. EVANS was accompanied
by two members Of the Society in drab coats he HIM
self wore blue mixed. They all sported about inch
and half of whiskers-reaching to the bottom of the
ear-and their hair combed straight forward and
cut square across So far as length of coat was con-
cerred they quite in fashion.
Mr. EVANS spoke from notes at very great length on
the peculiar spirituaism of the Shakers. He made
distinction between the God of Israel and the God of
the universe. The Jews, he said differed from the
Gentles in their revelation the relation of property
among them and the relation of the sexes The Jews
were in avery degraded state when they left Egypt,
probably rs degraded the slaves of the South He
thought Moses made great blunder when be grum-
bled at having to strike his rod the rock to draw
water Moses forgot then that he was nothing but
medium Some Of our mediums did nowadays. The
institution of mama a very pretty arrange
ment. Everybody had to gather for himself and
there could be no monopohes The Shakers believed
rights among which life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness. But what was the right to live if they
had not right to earth, air aud water-as much a.
was necessary to sustain liie When the land OF Ca
naan was conquered, it was divided among all the
families of Israel. We often lectured about the
Sabbath Our Puritan fathers very strict about
it; the children must not laugh on the Sabbath. But
they did not keep the Jewish Sabbath; they kept
day that Constantine set apart. The Jewish
Sabba.h required TO be kept day of rejoicing,
rot day OF long faces, that was the way the
Lords Sabbath was to be kept-the rch sending
presents TO the poor and making them comfortable.
There were four kinds of Sabbaths- Of days,
of weeks of years, and the jubilee Mr.. Evans pro-
ceeded to read from the Bible the pecuartes of these
various Sabbaths, and the reading received with
as much applause a. though the matter had been en-
tirey rev to the bulk of the audience. The cancel
ling of debts was received with applause, the aboi-
ton of slaves with applause not unmngled with Kisses.
| The Shakers considered that the Jubilee was typical
of the last dispensation He quoted the promises to
virgins that they should have name better than sons
and daughters, name that should not be cut of
Private property was utterly destroyed in the third
dispensation they had all things in common in the
dspeusation of Jesus. They broke their bread from
house to house. They lived in that respect Shaker
! life. Jesus was Rgood Shaker A rich man could
more get into the kingdom of heaven than cable
through the eye Of q needle, because the plane of
the kingdom Of heaven all things were in common. On
the day of Pentecost the gift of tongues descended
! upon Jews alone, but every man heard in his own
tongue. They loved one another, and they went and
sold all that they had, and threw the money all to-
gether. There was such thing mine and thine.
il was all ours. The Shakers did not believe that
but Christians would go to heaven 1t would not
be difficult prove that there not Christian in the
house Ilaughter, but he hoped they would all 60 to
Heaven. Jesus and his Apostles were band OF brothers.
they had but one money-bag and Judas carried that
the wort of the lot In coming to the relations
of the he said he had thought of good deal,
and felt about good deal Suppressed laughter.
Jesus was the first Christian and the first Shaker. He
certainly would not advance idea beyond what be
thought the people would be perfectly satisfied with.
When Abraham was called the frst thing required
the rite of circumcision. They al knew what that
WAS And il was exceedingly important; no COM
mcptators that he had ever read had touched upon
it in Il sensible way. Baptism was Jewish
rite they would take a person and wash him
all over with w That was ,y%RGsa
sign of religion. Our religion went as far TO
cleanse the soul sprinkling would go to cleanse
dirty face. Moses the High Priest OF the Order OF
Procreatlon. lie was not Christian; he nevertaugn
that the jew should not procreGte He taught that the
law Of marriage wvs that intercourse of the sexes
should take place on for procreeton Anything be-
yond that was only the lust of the flesh aud was an
ungody violation Of the physical laws of our being;
Here little boy went out Everything of that kind
had 10 be made public among the Jews, had to be
made known TO the public authorities. The man and
the woman had to be shut out of the camp until even.
ing and to be washed with water and the bed, too bad
to be washed with water. There was baptism for
them. And when child was born, it was uncean for
forty or eighty days and the had to 90 through
long process of publication, including the sacrifice
of a sin offering. Why offer sin offering II no SIN
had been committed When Adam and Eve fell,
they were naked, and they not ashamed but by
and by, they ashamed and knew they were
| naked and when the curse came to be pronounced
upon them il said TO the woman, / viii greatly
! - multiply thy sorows and thy conceptions
thy lust shall be to thy husband and he
shall rule thee" which thousands had
found TO their sorrow to be true Loud and con-
tinued cheeringl. This not light matter, and he
would much prefer that they would be still lie be.
lieved that the public mind was well prepared
for such doctrines at the present time The Jewish
theory of the sexual relation showed that Moses
scboomaster to bring souls to Christ. Through Moses
the Jews learned that this sin. Jesus came to
save his people from their sins and He could not DO
This without saving them from the marriage relation in
10 70 for that was SIN by the Jewish laws Man had
corrupted the fountain OF his existence in his fail and
thew were FIVE yesrs old There something rotten
IN Denmark. Il We would have hisheI and h'As'