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o'clock, Saturday, and continue without intermission till 

 3. They are of the opinion that they need not go to 

 a synagogue or " where the minister has to go 'round 

 and wake the people up, as he did down to the Advent 

 Church in Athol, last Sunday." The family seat them- 

 selves in the parlour on three sides of the room, with 

 the occasional visitors on the fourth side ; and the exer- 

 cises consist of exhortations by the various members, ac- 

 cording as they are moved by the Spirit, with abundant 

 " amens " from the rest. If no one feels called upon to 

 speak, they study the Bible. Often they break out into 

 singing. The house is free to visitors at all times. Last 

 year from June to October, they had over two hundred 

 visitors, among them nineteen, unexpectedly, one Sab- 

 bath. 1 



Their number, now about twenty, varies from time to 

 time. They say they do not expect additions, though re- 

 cently they have received two or three which they count 

 of considerable importance. One of them is a woman, 

 formerly a member of the Shaker Community at Day- 

 ton, O., where she was not satisfied, who walked all the 

 way from Ohio to join them ; another is an ex-Baptist 

 minister from Athol. They say they have suffered con- 

 siderable persecution " for righteousness' sake." Mrs. 

 Fuller thinks she was cheated out of property which 

 her mother left her, and, because of the faith, two of 

 their number, while sick, they say, were turned out of 



1 This was my first visit, with Dr. James and other friends, as 

 above described. 



