Office.  It happened soon after dinner.  I said that those who were present, were Mr. Noyse’s friends, but that I expected, that they were for truth, and that also Noyse will correct the errors and misrepresentations which he has published regarding my mission and regarding my statements in my article, to which he had reference in his article.  But Mr. Noyse pertinaciously denied to have misrepresented my statements.  I had in my pocket the number of the paper containing my article and that number of the Perfectionist in which my publication has been misrepresented.  I read corresponding passages from both, and asked the witnesses, whether Noyse’s report contained the same sense as my report.  All his friends remained silent; but he continued to be obdurate, and repeated in the most impudent manner, that he did not misrepresent my statements.  I did know nothing until yesterday about his having misrepresented as early as 1840 my doctrine regarding Christ’s coming and slandered and calumniated me already in that year.  And when I met four or five years after that personally with him in his Printing Office about our business, he appeared as the most stubborn infallible Pope, affirming with the most impudent affront, that what he published against me, was true.  But some bystanders commenced to cry:  “Snake! snake! snake!” pointing out of the door of the Printing Office in a distance from the door to see what it was.  There was a very large snake marching from a distance directly towards us and towards the door of the Printing Office, and went, in spite of the men gazing it, under the threshold, and sheltered its self under the floor of the Printing Office.  It was most singular, that the devil, that means calumniator, by whom the snake was possessed, magnetized so the witnesses, that none of them took an instrument to kill the snake, although he could have easily reached one for this purpose in the Printing Office.  After having been all so baffled, I said to Mr. Noyse, that the snake or the dragon is the Holy Ghost who comes from the depth of his Printing Office and inspires his readers with such infernal delusion, as appeared in his “Perfectionist” against my mission, and I left directly his place.

The man who has brought me to Mr. Noyse, left soon after that spectacle his own wife, a good natured woman, and went with another “Lady” to unknown regions.  And Noyse left, not long after that that place, and founded in the State of New York, the Oneida community, in which his followers professed publicly and published their Free Love doctrine, and put it in practice in that community and elsewhere, when they had opportunity to deceive and ruin the incautious, abusing the Bible in the most horrible manner and anathematizing the true messengers of God.  Such imposters must also give testimony to our mission in a manner convenient to their position, as I have given at the close of this treatise some hints, although I could write a volume of memorable events connected