The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-13

effort toward establishing community in
San Francisco.
1t is proposed to erect church here,
though just when active operations will
begin has not yet been determined. The
building will be an exact reproduction OF
the one now being used by the community
at East Canterbury, N. H., having a seat
ing capacity of several hundred and apart
ments sufficient to accommodate at least a
hundred people. When the work ON the
coast has progressed little further few
prominent Eastern Shaker leaders will
come to San Francisco and begin actively
the work of establishing the church or
community.
In the lecture delivered by Mr.. Dove at
Golden Rule Hall yesterday he took for
his subject "Christ and Ann Lee" The
remarkable history of this more than re-
sounds more like fiction than truth yet he
backs up all of his statements with his
torical proof. In the course of his remarks
he said:
God annointed Jesus of Nazareth and Ann
Lee with the Holy Ghost and with power; who
went about doing good and healing all that
were oppressed of the devil for God was with
them.
In the person of Mother Ann, as the Shakers
call her, was literally fulfilled the promise of
that do shall he do Also"
"Many times" said she, "when was about
my work felt my soul overwhelmed with sor-
row, and used to work as long as could keep
1t concealed and then run to get out of sight,
lest some one should pity me with that pity
which God did not.'
And when l was born into the spiritual
Kingdom was like an infant just born into
the world. They see colors and objects but
they know not what they see And SO il was
with me when was born into the spiritual
world. But before was twenty-four hours old
saw and knew what saw.
she was often arrested and thrown into
prison. On one occasion she was forcibly
dragged out of the meeting and cast into a
prison IN Manchester, England, and placed in
cell SO small that she could not recline at full
length. Here she was kept without food for
fourteen days, and not once during that time
was the door opened Food was, however, con-
veyed to her by lad of 10, whom Ann had
brought up from boyhood. He succeeded in
supplying her secretly with mixture of wine
pipe through the keyhole of the cell door.
Imagine the surprise of the turnkey when at
the end OF the time he opened the door, ex-
pecting to find her dead from starvation, and
she walked away looking as well as when she
entered.
1t was in this dark, gloomy cell that the
great vision of her life was granted her, when
the great mystery Of the ..fal O. mani: "You
must forsake the marriage of the flesh, and
travel out of it, in order to be married to the
LdnD, winch is 10 Dc maIIleu W SnllsL OF
joined to the Lord in one spirit"
She abounded in spiritual gifts, such as heal
ing, prophecies, speaking in different tongues,
discernment of spirits. On one occasion when
on trial on charge of blasphemy before four
ministers of the established church she spoke
for four hours in seventy-two different lam
guages. She had wonderful faculty of search
ing the hearts of people for hidden sins and
bringing them to light. Like her Lord and the
woman of Samaria, she "told them all things
that ever they did"
Once in the State of New York she spoke to
some sisters and babe them prepare victuals
for six people. They did so. and as soon as 1