震教徒：辉煌不在(2/2)

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概述: 虽然Shakers宗教走向衰落，但是他们的影响却在如今的生活中仍然依稀可见。
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口语地址：http://bulo.hujiang.com/menu/11921/item/682021/Shakers emphasized honesty, hard work, and simplicity. Shaker missionaries walked the countryside, seeking converts.
New members were essential, because the Shakers lived as celibate brothers and sisters.
There would be no children born to build the ranks - which helps explain why you can count the remaining Shakers on one hand.
But Shakers embraced some earthly pleasures, such as music on the Victrola phonograph, automobile travel, and a glass or two of beer. Kentucky sour mash bourbon, too, at the Shakertown settlement in South Union, Kentucky.
They made their living by selling high-quality garden seeds and making fruit preserves, straw hats and brooms, oval boxes, and distinctive wooden furniture whose simple designs still inspire the so-called Shaker style.
After the U.S. Civil War of the 1860s, tens of thousands of Americans headed westward in search of fortunes and a new life, and lots of Shakers left the fold to do likewise.  It was the beginning of a steady decline of their sect.
Some Shaker settlements became museums and still draw visitors, curious to find out what all that moving and shaking were about.震教徒注重诚实正直，辛勤劳作以及简单的生活。震教派传教士的身影遍及各个乡村，寻求皈依者。
由于震教徒过着单身的兄弟姐妹般的生活，因此吸收新的成员是非常有必要的。
震教徒里不会有新生儿的出生来壮大部队--这也从某方面解释了为什么我们能够计算出剩下的震教徒。
但是震教徒也享受着一些俗世的乐事，如收听手摇留声机里传出的音乐，驾车去旅行，喝上一两杯啤酒，或者在南肯塔基联盟震教镇定居点畅饮肯塔基酸麦芽波本威士忌。
他们靠出售优质的花种，菜籽，腌制蜜饯，编织草帽，扎扫帚，制作椭圆形的木箱以及颇具特色的木制家具为生，这种设计简单的家具仍然启发着所谓的“震教徒风格”。
19世纪60年代美国内战后，数以万计的美国人向西部进发以寻求财富，追求新的生活，许多震教徒也在此时离开定居点加入了去西部淘金的大部队。这是该教派走向持续衰落的开始。
一些震教徒的定居点变成了博物馆，至今依然吸引着那些好奇的游客，他们想要探寻到底震教徒的震颤摇摆是怎么一回事。