Hello my name is John Humphrey Noyles, and I was born in Brattleboro, Vermont in the year of 1811. I came from a well-established family. My father John and my mother Polly taught me as a young child to fear the Lord, and this influenced my entire life. Later in life as i began to study at Yale, I came to understand the way of salvation labeled Perfectionism. This idea of Perfectionsim later became the basis of the Oneida Community that i founded in New York. years later. The Oneida community is based on the teachings and practices of mutual criticism, complex marriage, and male continence. This is a Utopian community that is intensely concerned about God's will. Our community is is not only successful because of our tight knit society, but also because of out many economic ventures. We are farmers, saw millers, blacksmiths, silk producers, and silverware producers (which is our main source of income). Our perfect society believes that God has returned, making it possible for Christ's millennial kingdom, and to be free of sin in this world not only heaven.