Shaker Image, The
By Elmer R. Pearson, Julia Neal, Walter Muir Whitehill
Number of quotes: 2
Book ID: 322 Page: 26/27
Section: 2D3B
In his autobiography, Issachar Bates, a Baptist minister and onetime fifer in the Revolutionary War, gave a first-hand account of this day:. . . .
“Now such confusion of body and mind I had never before witnessed on the part of the Shakers it was singing, dancing, shouting, shaking, speaking with tongues, turning, preaching, prophesying, and warning the world to confess their sins and turn to God, for His wealth was coming upon them. All this was right in the neighborhood where I lived.”
Quote ID: 7757
Time Periods: 7
Book ID: 322 Page: 27
Section: 3A4C,2D3B
The Shaker Tenets were so radically different from the prevailing religious and political doctrines of the times that the missionaries met with bitter opposition. Among the Shaker beliefs that aroused hostility were their refusal to take oaths and to bear arms – aggravated by the facts that the Revolution was then in progress and that the Shaker religion and leadership had only recently come from England
Quote ID: 7758
Time Periods: 7
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