8S4 HISTORY OP 



second story, is a Piall or chapel for spiritual purposes and 

 provided with an organ ; the greater part of the third 

 story is a dormitory, aside of which is a room for such as 

 may be indisposed. The arrangements are in all respects 

 similar to those we have described in the Brother House. 

 A small farm, together with a very large vegetable 

 garden, from which the kitchen which furnishes the table 

 of the Ladies' Seminary is provided, are attached to it. 

 The number of sisters, who reside in the house at this 

 present time, is not so large as formerly, yet the greater 

 part of the rooms remain occupied. There was never 

 an^^ kind of vow of celibacy connected with these Insti- 

 tutions ; any of the sisters can leave the house if she has 

 any desire to change her situation. 



In larger Moravian communities, similar houses are 

 established for such widows as desire, to live retired, and 

 are called widows' houses. The individuals residhig in 

 these establishments pay a small rent, by which, and by 

 the sums paid for their board, the expenses thereof are 

 defrayed, assisted occasionally by the profits on the sale 

 of ornamental needle^vork, confectionaries, &c. on which 

 some of the inmates subsist. We hope our account of 

 these Institutions will prove satisfactory to our readers, 

 and particularly to such as have hitherto entertained 

 different opinions. They are in their character nothing 

 more than the different asylums for widows &c. which 

 are found in Philadelphia and other cities, and we are 

 inclined to think, the idea for establishing those in the 

 cities, has been borrowed from the Moravian Institutions. 



The Grave Yard."* — This beautiful spot is located 

 on a rising ground to the south of the village, of which 



•November 8, 1758, a lad of three years, named John Baum- 

 gartner, was buried in this Grave Yard; being the first inter- 

 ment; the occasion was improved by solemnly consecrating 



