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248 him the most earnest men of his time, for the effort which represented more high sentiment and spiritual hope than any movement England has seen,. . . The Millennium had not arrived in 1844, and the well-meaning who were ignorant, and the well-informed who were visionary—those who worked and never rested, and those who rested and never worked—crept in. . . Thus Harmony Hall (the name of the Community at Broughton} came to know discord, and after a few years of struggle came to an end, by a complication of disorders such as are too familiar in such experiments to require mention in detail."

Since Mrs. Chappellsmith knew for what purpose I solicited information in regard to her life, I do not think that it will be out of place to quote directly from her own interesting letter.

"I lectured in many parts of London and its environs, in the chief cities in the midland and northern parts of England, and in Scotland, in the neighboring