113 here far from reaching its attainable perfection. Their clothing is washed together, and one bakery supplies them with bread. A general nursery shelters all children over three years of age. There these little pocket editions of humanity are well cared for by kind dames in the sere and yellow leaf. With all the peculiarities of their religious faith and practice we are unacquainted; but, like most sects denominated Christian, there is sufficient in their creed, if followed, to make their lives here upright, and to justify the Lope of a glorious future. Separatists is a term applied to them, because they separate from the Lutheran and other denominations. They have no prayers, baptisms nor sacraments. and like Jews, eschew pork. Their church is often filled in winter evenings, and twice on the Sabbath. The morning service consists of music, instrumental and vocal, in which a piano is used, together with the reading and explanation of the Scriptures by some of their number. The afternoon exercises differ from it in the substitution of catechism from a German work for biblical instruction. The community are strict utilitarians, and
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