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William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 23: Communism. (search)
e their property to God, are made members of this Order-Sons of Enoch, and like Enoch, Heirs of Life. It is a form of aristocracy; a grade in a new order of nobles. Not many persons have yet earned this grade. A convert now and then lays down his all, and wins from his prophet the promise of a seat among the highest thrones; but a Saint grown grey in sanctity is rarely tempted to exchange his fields and barns, his cows and pigs, his wheels and saws, for promises of a heavenly crown. While Fox, a poor disciple, surrenders all he owns, and takes such mite as Young allows him for food and clothes, Jennings, the rich disciple, builds himself a handsome villa in the suburbs, which he furnishes with busts and pictures, books and cabinets, like a gentleman's house in Regent's Park. Great care is taken that such transfers of property to the Church are made in legal form, and sworn before a Gentile judge. This Order has a strong attraction for the Shoshones, Sioux and Utes. Lame Do