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...'Over one thousand "Cooneyites" from all parts of Ireland and from England and Scotland,
have assembled to hold their annual Convention, and delegates from New Zealand, Australia,
America and Canada are expected to arrive in a few days....

Nearly all the 'visitors wear black dresses and plain sailer hats. Services are held daily, and the
principal preacher is Mr. Wm. Irvine, one of the founders of the sect, who was formerly and
engineer in Scotland. Mr. Edward, the son of a wealthy Fermanagh merchant, who joined the sect
some years ago, and who for the past four months has been preaching the new doctrine in Canada
is expected to arrive at Crockaecrieve before the convention closes. At each service two or three
members of the sect relate the story of their "conversion" and renounce their former religious
associations. The "Pilgrims" do not believe in any of the Christian churches and at the principal
meetings clergymen of all denominations are vigorously denounced......

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