Spiritualizing
Adventists,
p,
11
Hew
York,
from
there
to
Cleveland,
and
on
the
17th
they
came
to
the
residence
of
®
the
Rev,
Mr,
Pickands,
who,
knowing
all
this,
kept
them
till
their
arrest,
On
the
trial,
ir,
Pickands
refusad
to
be
sworn
as
a
witness,
but
at
length
offered
to
tell
the
story,
(the
bove
is
the
substance)
under
the
penalties
for
periury,
Pickands
and
Kidder
justified
the
conduct
of
the
defendants
on
the
ground,
that
it
was
consistent
with
their
doctrine,
which
would
permit
a
‘spiritual
matrimony
without
sexual
connection.'
Justice
Converse,
however,
differed
from
them
in
opinion,
and
ordered
the
defendants
to
find
bail
in
the
sum
of
$200
each,
oa
the
charge
of
adultry™
quoted
from
Akron,
Ohio
paper
"They
believe
they
shall
not
die;
that
they
are
ghexeimrixepf
of
the
elect
144,000,
who
are
to
'follow
the
amb
wheresoever
he
goeth,'
which
ends,
and
possessions.
These
women
call
themselves
Rings,
and
as
they
travel,
the
from
the
Akron
Democrat
appoint
men
to
act
as
priests.'/
AMN11:72,
April
2,
1946,