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during the week, the Church bell called them out again, 

 in about 15 minutes, to attend a lecture from their 

 High Priest and Law-giver, Mr. George Rapp. "We 

 went to hear the lecture, or, rather, to see the perform- 

 ance, for, it being all performed in German, we could 

 understand not a word. The people were all collected 

 in a twinkling, the men at one end of the Church and 

 the women at the other; it looked something like a 

 Quaker Meeting, except that there was not a single 

 little child in the place. Here they were kept by their 

 Pastor a couple of liours, alter which they returned 

 home to bed. This is the quantum of Church-serrice 

 they perform during the week ; but on Sundays they 

 are in Church nearly the whole of the time from getting 

 up to going to bed. When it happens that Mr. Rapp 

 cannot attend, either by indisposition or other accident, 

 the Society still meet as usual, and the elders (certain 

 of the most trusty and discreet, whom the Pastor se- 

 lects as a sort of assistants in his divine commission) 

 converse on religious subjects. 



51(>. Return to the Tavern to sleep; a good com- 

 fortable house, well kept by decent people, and the 

 master himself, Avho is very intelligent and obliging, is 

 one of the very few at Harmony who ca)i speak English. 

 Our beds were as good as those stretched upon by the 

 most highly pensioned and placed Boroughmongers, and 

 our sleep, I hope, much better than the tyrants ever get, 

 in spite of all their dungeons and gags. 



517. July 2nd. — Early in the morning, took a look 

 at the manufacturing establishment, accompanied by 

 our Tavern-keeper. I find great attention is paid to 

 this branch of their affairs. Their principle is, not to 

 be content with the profit upon the manual labour of 

 raising the article, but also to have the , benefit of the 

 machine in preparing it for use. 1 agree with them 

 perfectly, and only wish the subject was as well under- 

 stood all over the United States as it is at Harmony. 

 It is to their skill in this way that they owe their great 

 prosperity ; if they had been nothing but farmers, thev 

 would be now at Harmony in Pennsylvania, poor eut- 

 tivators, getting a bare subsistence, instead of having 

 doubled their property two or three times over, by 



