THE SHAKERS OF THE NEW FOREST.
■ " ' .The Shakers of the Now Forest will > soon bo no moro than a picturesque mom' ' ory of the past. Mrs Girling was their mother, their teacher, their loador, their incarnate deity. Sheia dead and with her will parish the strange religion which, if it had been generally followed, might have solved the problems alike of peasant proprietorship arid' of sver* population, They cultivated, their little holding like a garden, and the multiplication of the speeiea was alike opposed both to thoir doctrine and to thdCpraotico, Mrs Girling ia the only teacher of whom wo have any knowlodrt who made absolute continence the ran of life for both sexes. and suocoedad in securing'its adoption ovon by married couples occupying a single room, .Thgfc waa a much moro notable miracle than tho "stigmata" which she olaimod to possess, and one which deserved more at* tontion than it has yet received.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2467, 3 December 1886, Page 2
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154THE SHAKERS OF THE NEW FOREST. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2467, 3 December 1886, Page 2
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