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chine in preparing it for use. I agree with them' 

 perfectly, and only wish the subject was as 

 well understood 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, they would be now 

 at Harmony in Pennsylvania, poor cultivators, 

 getting a bare subsistence, instead of having 

 doubled their property two or three times over, 

 by which they have been able to move here 

 and select one of the choicest spots in the 

 country. 



918. But^ in noting down the state of this 

 Society, as it now is, its origin should not be 

 forgotten ; the curious history of it serves as an 

 explanation to the jumble of sense and absurdity 

 in the association. I will therefore trace the 

 Harmonist Society from its outset in Germany 

 to this place. 



919. The Sect had its origin at Wurtemberg 

 in Germany, about 40 years ago, in the person 

 of its present Pastor and Master, George Rapp, 

 who, by his own account, " having long seen 

 " and felt the decline of the Church, found 

 " himself impelled to bear testimony to the 

 " fundamental principles of the Christian Reli- 

 " gion ; and, finding no toleration for his in- 

 " spired doctrines, or for those who adopted 

 " them, he determined with his followers to go 



