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AN ACCOUNT OF THE ADONI-SHOMO COMMUNITY 



From the Springfield Republican. (1876.) 

 As queer a people as are often met, and apparently as 

 upright and religious, withal, are the Community sit- 

 uated on the stage-road between Athol and Petersham, 

 and commonly known thereabouts as " Howlandites " 

 or " Fullerites." According to their account, nearly 

 twenty-one years ago, two Worcester women, Mrs. Sa- 

 rah J. Hervey and her sister, Caroline E. Hawks, had 

 come to hope for a divine revelation to them, and in ex- 

 pectation of it had gone to a camp-meeting at Groton. 

 Entering the meeting they heard a stranger " talking 

 in tongues," who proved to be the man to meet their 

 wants, in the person of Frederick T. Rowland, a Qua- 

 ker, of good social standing, from New Bedford. That 

 day, September 15, 1855, was the origin " in the faith," 

 though not in temporal association, of the Community, 

 these three being the " pioneers," as Sister Hervey takes 

 pride in calling herself and associates. Mrs. Hervey's 

 husband died a year or two later, though not in the 

 faith, " these things," as they say, "having been beyond 

 him." Soon after, the new belief received the addi- 

 tion of eight persons from Athol, among them Leonard 

 C. Fuller, the present Spiritual head of the Community, 



