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...waste any thoughts on the future," she says. "I don't plan for it." Sister Sadie is 98, the oldest living member of the sect; there are only about 50 left. For within the Shaker fold, as in the Kingdom of Heaven, there is no marriage or giving in marriage; Shakers are made, not born, and there were never more than 6,000 of them. But for 200 years they carried on a remarkable experiment in welding mystical religion with practicality...
Celibacy Is Better. The most conspicuous Shaker practice was celibacy. Men & women lived separately in communal houses. A Shaker elder once explained to Novelist William Dean Howells: Shakers did not so much believe that marriage was sinful as, with St. Paul, that marriage is good but celibacy is better. To skeptics who wondered what would become of the human race if everybody were a Shaker, a Shaker replied that he failed to see how "the bringing to an end of this wicked world would be a great wrong. Most nominal Christians believe it will come...
...spirit perform solo. Frequently the spirit would work mightily in their midst to produce wild outcries and contortions, "speaking with tongues" or convulsive "jerks" and "barks." "For a while the world's people were admitted to these dances. But when the crowds grew too big, the Shaker elders barred the public...
Jean-Paul Barricelli. Cleveland; Stanley Vergil Baum, Shaker Heights, Ohio; Wilbur Arnold Cowett, Springfield; Reger Lamont Creighton, Belmont; Sumner Lee Feidberg, Newton; Irvin Milton Horowitz, Elizabeth, N. J.; James Murray Howe IV, Clearwater, Fla; Hugh Montgomery, Windsor Locks, Conn.; Whitson Makamic Overdash, Jr., Springfield, Tenn.; Armand Schwab, Jr., New York City; Charles William Stuart Talt, Roxbury; James Walter Warwick, Toledo, Ohio...
Married. Abram Garfield, 74, Cleveland architect, son of the 20th U.S. President; and Helen Matthews, 45; he for the second time, she for the first; in Shaker Heights, Ohio...