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"ABODE OF LOVE."

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Agapemone Leader Dead.

Notorious Sect Recalled. -

LONDON, March 21.

The Eei- T H Sm)th Pigott has died nt the Spaiton Agapemone from influenza, and will be buried in the grounds where the founder, "Brother" Prince, was interred The inmates refuse to admit the death as the) profess to beliei e that their Messiah ' hies for elermore Pigott's two sons and daughter b) Sister Ruth, who is chief of the "Messiah's EOUI wives," were

Spaiton at the time of Pigott's death to gethei with Sister Ruth and Pigott's law ful wife Lutterl) Pigott had turned to Spiritualism, and his services had been con

verted into seances

[The sect of the Agapcmomtcs, hal mg for its primar) object the spintunbsation of the matrimonial state," was founded m 1840 b) the Rev. Henri Jones Prince, i clergunan of the Church of hnglnnd He obtained a follow ing of 500, and it was gil cn out b) "Beloved' or "The Lamb" (the nimes bv which the Agapcmomtcs designated their leader) that lus disciples must divest themselves of their possessions and throw themselves into the common stock With the money thus obtained the lioufo at Spaiton, which was to become known os the "Abode of Love," was cn largcd and furnished luxurious]!, and three sisters, who contributed £6000 each, were immediate]) married to three of Prince's nearest disciples A few )cars after the establishment of the "Abode of Love" a gross scandal led to the secession of some of the most faithful followers of Prince, but others remained, and they re ccivcd such titles as the "Anointed Ones," the "Angel of the Last Trumpet," ond the "Seven Witnesses" Brother Pi ince sent letters to the kings and people of the earth " Prince died in 1809 four )enrs after he had opened a branch church at Clapton, London, which is said to have cost

£20,000

On the death of "Brother Prince"

the Rev T H Smyth Pigott, pastor of the

"Ark," became the acknowledged head of the sect Ho was bom in 1852 of nn old Somersetshire count) farm!), and had -i lemarkable life as universit) nnn, a sailor before the mast, soldier, eoiree phntci, cunte in the Church of longland and Sal

vation Ami) evangelist Then in 1807 he vi as converted to the vic« s of Prince Pigott, nftel pionoiuicing most lemarkable views in which he proctaipicd himself ns the 'Messiah," retired to the "-ibocle of Loïc" in Somerset In 1005 a long silence was broken hi the announcement tint -i son had been born to Pigott bj his spirt

tun] wife, "Miss Ruth Prcece," nn lnnnle of the Agapemone The child vins regis tel ed as "Glor) " The hirth of a second child aroused so much public indignation that an attempt vi as made to tar and feather Pigott, nnd ver) shoitli afterwards piocccdmgs vicie instituted against lum bv the Bishop of Bath and Wells under the CIcrg) DiBciphno Act

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