Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-03-02

better for this government, ii when found
ed, the land had been given to the people.
and this idea carried out. We should not
be scattered over the world as now, de.
stroying the work of ages, and killing
each other. The building up of cities and
railroads was all wrong. 1t was robbing
the people of their labor, for many are
growing immensely rich while others do
not own foot of land, or enough to bury
them on. This cannot be right, our or
ganic laws were all wrong. This beauti-
full continent had been given to us, but
not to abuse and destroy All the tur.
MOL and strife was ocoasioned by few
men on each side, who put their heads to-
gether and got up war, and whom the
great mass of mankind would follow. In
all these things woman have had no voice,
and here was something to be thought of
Man, because he was physically the
strongest, had taken away the natural
rights Of women, in which there was
great wrong. 1t needed revolution to
correct this. He thought that benevolence
and love on the part of man should be
sufficient to guarantee justice to woman.
Woman has inallienable rights as natural
and sacred as those accorded to man, and
rights which man, by law or otherwise,
has no right to infringe upon. The in
oreasing interest in, and agitating Of this
subject, were convincing evidence that
the waters of truth were troubled, and a
prophecy that progress will be made in
this direction.
Moses never taught the immort atty of
the soul, he taught that the world be-
longed to the people. The poor were not
oppressed in those days. But few years
ago the law was such, that a poor man
was put in Jail for his debts. This was
bad way of doing business, but those laws
proceeded from lack of knowledge. A
poor man needed all the freedom he could
get. He said we were all heathens, in
one sense of the word, still. We could
not call him partial, for he included the
Shakers with other denominations, but
we were all making progress in the higher
law of spiritual progression. The object
of them osaic history was to teach man
kind how to live upon the earth. 1t was
wrong for one sect to claim they are right
and others all wrong The fact was, we
were all wrong, were all human beings,
and mixture of Gentiles, Jews and
Christians. There should be ne monopoly
it was q source of great evil, and ought
to be stopped. The law of Moses, if lived
up to would lead us in different direc-
ton, it would tend to Danish diseases,
and then there would be no more need of
that class of men called doctors.
Concerning marriage, he said that
Jesus was Shaker, he didn't marry nor
fight. Jesus taught celibate life, lived
Christian life, and above the order of
reproduction. Ii people lived as Jesus
taught, they would neither marry nor be
given in marriage here. He thought as
long as people married there would be
| fighting. AS understood and interpreted
by the Shakers, the testimony of Jesus
and the Apostles, was against the marriage
institution. The marriage relation was
wrong, it was forbidden Of the Holy
Ghost, and inconsistent with the "Order
of Grace" All must readily admit, he
thought, the abuses which attach to
the work of reproduction. st. John tells
as expressly how the improved race is
produced, and he thought it was time
that the system was better regarded. This
Gospel was an excellent treatise on the
true science of the heavenly generation.
Jesus never instituted marriage IS a
Christian institution, and where, in the
statutes Of Jesus, have we the law of mar
riage People who marry will fight, and
we never shall be rid of war until we
establish q celibate system of life, and
holding property ia common. Wherever
we fud the marriage element, there we
find the war element. Gentle Christians
have lost sight of the law of Moses in re-
gard 10 marriage. Human beirgs were
continually abusing the law of reproduc-
ton. We needed reformation in respect
to the marriage relation.
In regard TO progression, he said, that
progress was natures great law carrying
mp and aublimating each lower grade OF
being to aubserve the grade above. Ma
turs's law of reproduction was only a
snb-law, subserVient to the grand law OF
progress. Nature had ultimately designed
man to assume spiritual life, the great
work of which Jesus was commissioned to
introduce among men, and be clearly laid
down and defined the nature and laws of
this new life He plainly pointed out
the distinction between the new and the
old, the children of this world, and the
children Of the newly introduced kingdom
of God 'The children of this world
marry, but the children Of the resurrec-
ton do not marry, but are as the angels
having entered into the life Of Christ.
The exercises were then closed with
singing, during which several very lively
and spiritual,sonQs were sung, full of life
and animation. AT the close Of the sing.
ing the Elder said, that the Shakers held
to the example of members of the ancient
church in manifesting their Joy and era.
titude at the goodness of God towards
them by spiritual songs and dances. He
said they had constant accession of new
songs every week, given them by The
spirits. The Shakers couldn't live unde,
cold hundred" they needed something
with more life to it, something new ever,
week. In their social relations, the,
found hundred foldsmore comfort thar
the outside world, being free from all
trouble, quarrels or jars, so frequent will
I other people. They then distributed some
tracts among the audience, in reference t.
which Elder Evans said they labored unde,
! some disadvantage, for their theology wa,
progressive one, and hence their tract,