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a house on School Street in this city. They add, how 

 ever, that those forward in opposing them have died 

 sudden or violent deaths. On the other hand, they are 

 prospering; they own a farm of two hundred and 

 ten acres, and Brother Asa Richards, their Temporal 

 head, raises stock, grain, fruits, etc., nearly sufficient to 

 support them. Brother Fuller, though their Spiritual 

 head, l does the marketing, principally in Athol. They 

 have decided to enlarge the house and build a chapel in 

 a short time, &quot; if the Lord permits.&quot; Last winter, to 

 protect their property, they went to the secretary of the 

 Commonwealth and were organized under recent state 

 laws as a corporation, with all the powers of a chartered 

 body, under the name of &quot; Adoni-shomo,&quot; Hebrew for 

 &quot; the Lord is there ; &quot; that name being found in Eze- 

 kiel xlviii. 35. All their property will now remain in 

 the Community while a single member of it is living. 



It may be added that the views which outsiders hold 

 of their Community do not always agree with their own. 

 A &quot; brother &quot; named Mann died, last fall, and, by their 

 own confession, they had some difficulty with his heirs, 

 but finally settled for a nominal sum. At first they re 

 fused to pay over anything, but the heirs, four in num 

 ber, threatening law, they finally concluded that the 

 Lord willed them to give up $800. The common belief 

 is that Mann was worth as many thousands; at any 



1 Brother Fuller resigned in 1877, and was succeeded by Bro 

 ther Richards as Spiritual head, or high priest of the Adoni- 

 shomo. 



