Show WOMEN WORSHIP HIM APOSTLE OF FREE LOVE DECLARES DE-CLARES HIMSELF MESSIAH J H SmythPlggottt Formerly Episcopal Epis-copal Clergyman Compels Adoration Adora-tion from His Followers Claims Infant Recently Born Is Divinely sent w England has been shocked from center tor to circumference by revelations concerning a body of religious cntliusl fiists who follow the free love theory and whose chief calls himself the Mcs rs n i er N T i 1 1 c C5 + i i I I Mr J H SmythPlggott Blah This chief is J II SmythPig gott and a son has been born to him for whom he claims divine origin Tho sect calls Itself the Agapemo nltcs and the elders live In a luxurious luxuri-ous mansion named The Abode of Love at Spaxton Somerset Smyth Plggott wnS formerly a clergyman cler-gyman lu the Cjiurch of England He has succeeded In persuading a largo number of women and a few men that he is time Messiah returned to earth and induces them to worship him The buby that hits Just come to the Abode ff Late is regarded by the A6mmtmenw niles as divinely sent and Its mother Ruth Grreco a young girl of striking beauty who has come under Plggotts Influence is looked on as the spiritual bride of the leader of the sectTho Tho name Glory Piggott was given to the Infant aunt elaborate christenIng christen-ing ceremony To make the ceremony legal the district registrar was summoned sum-moned to the Abode of Love At the door ot the mansion the registrar was met by a woman Are you time registrar she said excitedly Yes ho rdpllcd I am Then she added dramatically you arc about to be admitted into the presence of the Almighty Follow rneThe The registrar obeyed and was led into the chapel Forty persons were there all except the registrar Pig gott and his secretary being women The women wore grouped In a silent worshiping crowd with their eyes fixed on a couch Here In costly clinging cling-ing robes lay a beautiful young woman wom-an the mother of the baby At the foot of ho I couch was the Infant dressed In snowy white Plggotts legal wife was near by There ure 600 Agapcrnonltes all of ljiiL 1 tll 4bwi 1 a a k l Vut IlkVraftr nyr vxvSKKSvSs fi r WOlwJQwtv < m a htamh 1 iartT i J ntni tnr nfrjfnr I fri nr The Abode of Love stout are well to do About twenty mostly beautiful young womon live at tlrt Abode of Love with Piggott One of the principal tenets of the sect Is thft there shall bo no marriages among Its members Tho Abode of Lovo Is regarded by the Agapcmonites as a refuge from tho ctros and troubles of tho world It Is > i sort of combined convent and monastery regulated by rules almost eastern In their provisions for luxury All tho devotees place their mono In a common fund In charge of Pig gott and as Plggott has converted a number of tlch women to his faith time sect Is wealthy |