We read:  “Verily I say unto you, there is no man that has left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake and the gospel’s, but he shall receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brethren and sisters and mothers and children and lands, ‘after persecution,’ and in the world to come eternal life.”  Mark x:  29, 30.  According to our reading in the Greek text we translate:  “after persecution.”  When the persecution is abolished, the promised great advantages will be made manifest in the true community.  There will not be plurality of wives, but each husband will have his own wife.  Now father, mother, wife or children might resist to the determination of a person to join with the true community.  Those who comprehend, that this will be the true life in the true reign of Christ, in his Peace-Union, will co-operate with us for its introduction without regard to any opposition of their nearest relatives.  Every one who forsakes all and acts with us as much as he can, for establishing the Peace-Union, will when persecution ceases and the Peace-Union flourishes, consider those, who are old, as his fathers and mothers, those of equal age as brothers and sisters, and those who are younger as his children, and all the property belonging to the Peace-Union as ours, and we will truly pray to God:  “Our Father.”

Not being yet in this happy condition but endeavoring to arouse a general turn towards it, we must make some provisions to support the feeble in their turn, and those who turn towards our Peace-Union that they might easier settle matters with those who belong to their family and will not turn into our Peace-Union.

Every individual who determines to enter into our community, brings all his property into it, after having settled all his business in the world.  This property, according to our principles will be taken in possession by the community; and if it is not money but other property, it will be valued according to a very moderate price, and its value and the amount of money if he brings any, will be put into the ledger of the community, and a receipt will be given to him or her under the provisions mentioned as follows:  In the possible but not probable case, that he or she should return to the former fashion, the value of the property would be returned, although not directly, but when the community would find easy to do so.  In the mean time they would exchange the receipt which he or she received at the delivery of their property, with a note containing the amount of money and the time when the community promise to pay according to the value or course of money at the time received and at the time in which it would be paid to him.  For instance, if a dollar received would have at the time in which it would be paid, only the value of ten cents, ten cents would be paid to him or her instead of a dollar, without any interest; because the step should be made after earnest reflection and determination,