 The community — the Brotherhood of the New Life — decided to settle at the village of Brocton, New York on the shore of Lake Erie.Its nature was co-operative rather than communistic, and farming and industrial occupations were engaged in by his followers, numbering at one time about 2,000 in the United States and Great Britain.He professed to teach his community a change in the mode of respiration which was to be the visible sign of possession by Christ and the seal of immortality.