The Shakers of Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village

Learn about the Shakers of the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village.

[shirleyjhaney]

People stay healthier longer I think when they’re involved and working. I really like the Shakers, I find them inspiring. Thank you.

[alexjboros]

I visited and worshipped with the Shakers of the Sabbath Day Lake community a few years ago. I'm guessing it was around the time this video was made. I met and spoke in-person with Sister Frances. I was even able to sing one of their songs word for word during worship, as I had previously acquired a CD recording of some of their songs, and I had memorized one of their songs from the CD because I liked that particular song. Well, it just so happened that they sang that very song on the day that I joined them for worship, and I was able to stand with them and sing right along, word for word, note for note. Last but not least, prior to my visit I had heard or read about a prophecy -- a prophecy uttered by their spiritual mother many decades ago -- that when the number of Shakers remaining could be counted on one hand by a child, there would at that time be a spiritual revival of Shakerism in the world -- not just in their style of furniture and in their goods, nor just in their music, but a revival of their whole philosophy, beliefs, community, and way of life. It seems entirely possible to me that such a prophecy could, in fact, come true, and I hope it does, because the Shakers are a people of God. But I also hope that whatever revival in Shakerism that may some day come to pass would include the belief in the need for both marriage and reproduction in such Shaker-based communities of faith.

[TereseL]

I had the great privilege of making a video documentary about the Shakers in the early 1970's. I knew Sister Mildred Barker and the other Shakers who have since passed on. I am very happy to see Sister Frances Carr speaking so well on this video, and singing. How I wish I could see her again! Among the comments to this video comes one from someone (Jim T by name) who questioned Shaker celibacy. As the Shakers explained to me those many years ago, celibacy was deemed necessary in order to build a community of brothers and sisters. Without it, people would naturally be more bonded to their own families. But the vision was of a larger family, working in community and serving each other and serving the world with a belief, put into daily practice, of equality and peace.

[ngatihine]

Fascinating. I love the ambience of that religious community.

[kennewicksheri]

Marvelous... thank you for sharing this
Thank you

[bryanlint]

In an age where we buy for cheapness from China, paint is still on the wall after 200 years and looks as fresh as it was painted.

[shilohmtfarm]

Does anyone have info on Medad Curtis? He was suppose to have saved Mother Lee. I think he was originally from Connecticut

[hendrikmahling]

anyone know the name of/ have the link to the tune being played in the background at the beginning?

[mike-vghl]

I would go to live with the shakers, could be that posssible?

[mike-vghl]

Please don't let shakers disappear.

[dennispearson]

YOU CAN'T HELP BUT LOVE THESE GUYS!!! TOO BAD THERE ON THE VERGE OF EXTINCTION, BECAUSE THEY Forgot One Other Thing God BE FRUITFUL AND

[Potencyfunction]

" the shakers are very practical people"

[JavierBonillaC]

It’s sad to think that we have not gained an inch spiritually from this good people. They are a sort of point of contact with Buddhism.

[petercarlson]

All these small groups who have to re-invent the wheel all the time. Ora et labora, pray and work, can at least be traced back to St Benedict of Ursia (480-550 AD). A little a head of the Mother of the shakers.

[bryanlint]

Listen to that beautiful plainsong. Look at the quality of the things that they had made. The Utopian communities failed because they left out faith in God.

[Wunderlust]

How can they claim older then the Amish Community in Lancaster PA? 1720s????

[rsm]

I thought they got called shakers due to their crazy leader that shook out evil spirits

[billyb]

With artificial insemination, it wouldn’t be hard to be celibate and increase the numbers

[ginarios]

Someone living a shaker life can still have a baby. Just pray to the Creator, Hayah Asher Hayah, and ask that you and your husband or if the man, ask that you and your wife know each other spiritually. I am a witness that this is true. And the Creator, if it is His Will, can grant that in that you and your spouse know each other spiritually, then have a baby in the woman's womb. To Hayah goes all the glory (L-Hayah HaLK CBD HaCL, in Hebrew). // SHLM & HaB (peace & love). The Name of the Creator is Hayah Asher Hayah, as what He told Moshah (Exodus 3:14), preserved in the Hebrew Scriptures. There is a curse to the G-o-d name (Isaiah 65:11-12), preserved in the Hebrew Scriptures. All followers of the Messiah are to do the 7 appointed times (Leviticus 23), but no more animal sacrifices, following the Crucifixion of the Messiah. We are now of the order of MLK TSDQ (King, righteous), to Whom ABRaHM tithed. Ask the Messiah to be your personal Savior. He said to him, I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me (John 14:6). ...for all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of Hayah (Romans 3:23). The wages for sin is death but the gift of ALaHYM is Everlasting Life through Messiah Yahushgh our Master (Romans 6:23). That if you confess with your mouth the Master Yahushgh and believe in your heart that ALaHYM raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved (Romans 10:9). He Himself is an Atoning Offering for our sins, and not for ours only but also for all the world (1 John 2:2).

[Eric-steele]

who else thought sister Frances was a man, no offense!