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church proceeded to act on Brother George Hitchcock's case, 

 sustaining the complaint and ordering a letter of admonition 

 sent him." Acting on the complaints against the young ladies 

 separately, they were also sustained, and it was "ordered that 

 the scribe send them letters of admonition." 



June 24th, the church designated Deacon Freeman, Rev. 

 Enos Bliss and Brother Loren Bushnell as a committee to visit 

 the members who had personally received letters of admonition. 

 July 8th, still following the same members, the committee re- 

 ported "that they had visited those delinquent members, but 

 found no signs of repentance, and as for the rest, so far as they 

 could learn, there was but little hope of reclaiming them; where- 

 upon the church voted to suspend them from communion of the 

 church for three months, and if no repentance was manifested 

 by them at that time, they be cut off from the church." 



I once asked my sister Parnee what terrible crime was covered 

 by the charge of "vain amusements" preferred against Lucy 

 Pitkin and others, for I remembered Lucy, and knew that she 

 was one of the best principled and loveliest of women. My sis- 

 ter laughed as she told me the story — namely: that Lucy and 

 some of the other more lively girls and boys of the church had 

 been guilty of playing the game of "snap and catch 'em," which 

 implied chasing one another around a ring, and the one that got 

 caught first got kissed first. However good their intentions, the 

 church at Lorraine never was successful in eradicating these 

 "vain amusements." 



Without date is noted that Rev. Enos Bliss, Deacon Lyman 

 and Brother Bushnell were made a committee to notify Brother 

 Berna Van Ettan " That the church have knowledge that re- 

 ports unfavorable to Christian character lie against him." The 

 record does not show the character of these unfavorable reports, 



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