Eliza Roxcy Snow

“ After all the deep study, intense anxiety, constant labor and long-continued watchfulness in behalf of the interests of the people dependent on the success of their united efforts, the burning of their factory, although at the instant it sent a chill to his heart, was proof to Lorenzo of the power and strength of their grand compact. Instead of discouragement, misfortune actually seemed to draw the people more closely together, and more firmly cement the bonds of union. ”

“ It was thought that the burning of their excellent factory would retard the development of their home industrial pursuits, and delay the further demonstration of the great truth that a community, even a small one, can exist and flourish in a condition of measurable indepen- dence of the changes and fluctuations in operation out- side of it. ”

“ HILE everything in connection with the United Order was in a nourishing condition, and the people, through their extensive departments of home indus- tries, were fast attaining to a comparative state of indepen- dence, in the providence of God a serious calamity befel them, 'j'heir woolen factory, one of their most productive and important departments, with all it contained, was des- troyed by fire, which will elsewhere be fully explained. ”