PART III.] JOURNAL, 



the discontent that might arise from want and 

 fatigue in traversing it at once. When they 

 were all arrived, Rapp constituted them into 

 one body, having every thing in common, and 

 called the settlement Harmony. This consti 

 tution he found authorized by the passage in 

 Acts, iv, 32. " And the multitude of them that 

 " believed were of one heart, and of one soul : 

 " neither said any of them that aught of the 

 " things he possessed was his own, but that 

 " they had all things common." Being thus asso 

 ciated, the Society went to work, early in 1805, 

 building houses and clearing lands, according 

 to the order and regulations of their leader; 

 but, the community of stock, or the regular 

 discipline, or the restraints which he had re 

 duced them to, and which were essential to his 

 project, soon began to thin his followers, and 

 principally, too, those of them who had brought 

 most substance into the society ; they demanded 

 back their original portions and set out to seek 

 the Lord by themselves. This falling off of the 

 society, though it was but small, comparatively, 

 in point of numbers, was a great reduction from 

 their means ; they had calculated what they 

 should want to consume, and had laid the rest 

 out in land ; so that the remaining part were 

 subjected to great hardships and difficulties for 

 the first year or two of their settling, which was 



