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found every thing we wanted for ourselves and 

 our horses, and all very clean and nice, besides 

 many goo>d things we did not expect, such as 

 beer, porter, and even wine, all made within the 

 Society, and very good indeed, we then went 

 out to see the people at their harvest, which 

 was just begun. There were 150 men and 

 women all reaping in the same field of wheat. 

 A beautiful sight! The crop was very fine, and 

 the field, extending to about two miles in length, 

 and from half a mile to a mile in width, was all 

 open to one view, the sun shining on it from the 

 West, and the reapers advancing regularly over 

 it. 



915. At sun-set all the people came in, from 

 the fields, work-shops, mills, manufactories, and 

 from all their labours. This being their evening 

 for prayer 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 per 

 formance, 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 Meet 

 ing, except that there was not a single little 

 child in the place. Here they were kept by 



