They have established a woolen factory, where they make cloth
and yarn for their own use and for sale. Also two large flour-mills, a
saw-mill, planing-mill, machine shop, tannery, and dye-house. They have
also a country store for the accommodation of the neighborhood, a large
hotel which receives summer visitors; and for their own use they
maintain a wagon shop, blacksmith's and carpenter's shops, tailors,
dressmakers, shoemakers, a cider-mill, a small brewery, and a few looms
for weaving linen. They employ constantly about fifty persons not
members of the community, besides "renters;" who manage some of their
farms on shares.
They have now (in the spring of 1874) about three hundred members, and
their property is worth more than a million dollars.
II.--RELIGIOUS FAITH AND PRACTICAL LIFE.
The "Principles of the Separatists," which are printed in the first
volume of Joseph Baumeler's discourses, were evidently framed in
Germany. They consist of twelve articles:
"I. We believe and confess the Trinity of God: Father, Son, and Holy
Ghost.
"II. The fall of Adam, and of all mankind, with the loss thereby of the
likeness of God in them.
"III. The return through Christ to God, our proper Father.
"IV. The Holy Scriptures as the measure and guide of our lives, and the
touchstone of truth and falsehood.
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