James Macartney : a memoir / by Alexander Macalister.

  • MacAlister, Alexander, 1844-1919.
Date:
1900
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Credit: James Macartney : a memoir / by Alexander Macalister. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of this sect, although their rules and conduct have been much misrepresented. They formerly suffered a good deal of persecution, which on some occasions they resisted openly by force of arms, although more disposed to tolerate others, and one of their rules is to abstain from all political wars. They are, however, extremely alive to bad usage in their persons. I found all the inhabitants of the inn very civil, but provoked by the least censure or appearance of discontent on the part of their guests, even when they themselves were to blame. The ostler was quite abusive to my host of Moss-side. He arrived there the next morning and merely had complained of his horse having been neglected, which he certainly was. In short, all the Moravians displayed, in their look and manner, the appearance of an irascible character, but not a vindictive one. Their community of goods is only to a certain extent. There is a common stock in every society. It is like the property of a corporation ; the Moravians might be called a confederation of many corporate bodies held together by religious principles. The common property usually consists of a farm of lands with the tenements of their place of residence, public