Round-Up | 1897-01-01 | Page 1 | A Strange Sect

A Str alZO sect scat chincoteague Chinco teague islands strange sect called the sanctified band is losing members but some colored persons of the sect are building a chur church chat at boro del searching the scriptures is esteemed an important duty by the band and the exhorters exporters exhort ers find biblical authority for making such searches in company with the sisters each man has what he calls his bis fellow watcher of the opposite sex chosen by some sort of elective affinity and usually another than his own wife great scandal has arisen in chincoteague Chinco teague by reason of tho doings of the sanctified band