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...while the brothers reflected on how much they had learned about faith and Christian living from these simple people. Other friendships have taken the brothers on similar retreats to Appalachia, the West Indies island of Dominica and one of the oldest religious communities in the U.S., the Shakers of Sabbathday Lake village in New Gloucester...
Today two colonies still function after a fashion. At Canterbury, N.H. (founded in 1792), eleven old "sisters" live in the remaining 25 of the original 38 buildings where once 400 men and women worked and danced and sang. And at the Sabbathday Lake Colony near Portland, Me., lives the last male Shaker in the world-Elder Delmar C. Wilson, 88, with 13 "sisters...
Elder Wilson arrived in Sabbathday Lake after his father died, when he was eight, and has been there ever since, doing everything in his time from tending cows and installing plumbing to painting pictures. "They say the good is never lost," mused Elder Wilson one day last week. "But it's sad that so many beautiful things have faded away. If we can't carry on. others will. Methods can be improved; principles can't, they...
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