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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1019, 7 December 1883, Page 3

America (observes the St James's Oa- , setts) seems determined in her religious eccentricities to rival tho sects of the Mid,iie Aftesi The “ Pilgrim Band,” i fWibipH has just been formed at Erwin, in ' Illinois, is the very cownty, I .... latest . "development of this kind. An apostate Methodist minister, the Rev. - Caleb, Obeinshain, is the Joe Smith of l Uib.now'Morinonism.The main item of '_W» doctrine are polgamy and “ free love,” Jpmec| to belief in the divinity of another r r minister, one Rayburn. *'44eMttent‘to'which the “Pilgrims” go , may: he inferred from the fact that the ,'immp of Christ had been expunged from ffiiair prayers, and hymns, and that of Raysubsituthii. Thus, for “ Christ is a ‘r<Mdi,v/they say ‘‘.Rayburn is a rook.” 3Hte deincation of Rayburn has , i»0 r, exasperated the people in the ''neighborhood that the tent in which the “ Pilgrim Band ” holds its meetings .'toe ihore .than once been thrown down ;amcl the.pijgrims dispersed. But the law 1 was on their side, and the aggiessors were .-fined. ..Inquiries have shown that Obeins--hato -has repudiated his wife, to take a spiritual spouse ” in the person of a seriyant girl, and that he has cast off his children as the “ offspring of sin. A disgusted convert states that the secret meetings of the hand are mere orgies. Obeinshain has announced, ..as “ ordered by God in a vision,” that one of the « sisters ” will shortly give birth to a new prophet, of which he will be the father p bnd.the'i “ sister’# husband is said to be overjoyed at this.pyffk, pf divine favor. The sect is daily gaining numbers and influence. ■2UtvkRS, 4 conditions, const!nation, piles, dyspepsia, headache, cured by <• Wells’ May Apple PilW’; Sd and is boxes •t druggists. Moses, oss ahd Co., Sydney eehti fox Australasia.