A sect that is to “eat up” Mormonism is announced in America. It has been started by Mr. J. M. Allen. The system is a compound of socialism, communism, and polygamy There will be no war, murder, or capital punishment. *• Nature’s divine law ” will be the guiding star of the sect, and crime will positively be prohibited. The dress will be a peculiar pattern, being a loose garment continuous from the neck to the ankle, made in two halves, both sexes to wear it alike. Priests creeds, sectarianism, and religious persecution «°n be unkllown - Marriages are to be of the harmonious monogamic kind,” based on mutual affection and adoption, and each person is to have a private apartment. The new sect daily gathers in numbers.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 989, 22 October 1881, Page 2
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125Untitled Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 989, 22 October 1881, Page 2
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