Identifier: aletheiaspirit00mace (find matches)
Title: The Aletheia : spirit of truth, a series of letters in which the principles of the United Society known as Shakers are set forth and illustrated.
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Mace, Aurelia Gay, 1835-1910
Subjects: Shakers
Publisher: Farmington, Maine : Press of Knowlton, McLeary & Co.
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Princeton Theological Seminary Library

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upon the hill opposite and commenced to throw stones,but missed their aim in every instance except one. Oneof the brethren was slightly injured. In a short time 56 THE ALETHEIA. those men began to quarrel with each other and dis-persed, leaving our Mother and her people to return inpeace to their homes. In relating these circumstancesto some of the believers she said: While they werethrowing their stones I felt myself surrounded with thepresence of God, and my soul was filled with love. Iknew they could not kill me, because my work was notdone; therefore I felt joyful and comfortable, while myenemies felt distress and confusion. Those were days when persecution walked rampant;when life was often taken in punishment for the expres-sion of a religious opinion. But at that same time ahome was being prepared in the wilderness of America,where freedom of thought could be tolerated, and Tothe woman were given two wings of a great eagle, thatshe might fly into the wilderness, into her place.
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ELDER WILLIAM DlMONT.Sabbathday Lake, Maine. ■ Who will walk in the midst of the flame When the gospel fire is burning?Who will endure to be made wholly pureWithout one shadow of turning? LETTER XI. ROYALS RIVER —NOBLE PIONEERS OF THE TOWN-FIRST SHAKER MEETING IN NEW GLOUCESTER— ELDER ELISHA POTE —DEATH OF ELDER OTISSAWYER—VISION OF MOTHER ANN. May, 1884.Editors of the Messenger: — This morning the mist is rising from the water-coursesand encircling the distant hills. Northeast of our villagewe can trace Royals river through the Woods of Pine,by the billow of mist which hangs over it, as it finds itsway to the sea by a zigzag course. The winding way the serpent takes,The mystic river toolc, as in all the years that are past it has borne the overflowof Sabbathday Lake along through the green fields andmeadows, around the hills and over the pasture lands,until it reaches the ocean at Yarmouth, eighteen milesfrom this place. Up this river were poled on rafts the families and

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