GENERAL AMERICAN NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 64, 16 March 1900, Page 3

GENERAL AMERICAN NOTES.

A BELLAMY COLONY. ,An Edward Bellamy colony, founded on the principles set forth in "Looking- Backward," has been founded at Evanston, a fashionable suburb of Chicago. The organiser nnd guide is the Eev. Allen A. Keene, a Yale graduate. Members worshipped in the Congregational Church while their plans were maturing, but have now begun community life. The tenets of the society are as follow^: ! The community to be primarily ah industrial one. All are to work, the pastor and the humblest communicant, for the general good. All members are regarded as equal. All share alike responsibilK ties and joys. It is not right, not in harmony with Christ's teachings, to worship on Sunday and sell goods on Monday for more than cost. The church is a social body with, power and duty to benefit members in matters industrial nnd economic as well as spiritual. The church cannot neglect this duty without corresponding I loss in faith and love." The Bellamy I Church creed is as follows;^—"Gloril fying faith as supreme good, love as the greatest gift, and hope as the sanest, mood, we hold that, as in tKe beginning of the church all that believed had all belongings in common, ,so now and always industrial and economic fellowship constitute an inevitable test of faith and promise of I love."