Religion: Sealed-Up Sect

On July 4, in the town of Benson, Ariz, (pop. 2,600), all the members of the sect called Full Gospel, Inc. suddenly vanished.

Their neighbors were astonished; they had seemed such normal folk when they settled in Benson, mostly during the past six months, and built their attractive houses—about 30 of them—and their neat stucco church. But now the houses were shut and silent in the summer sun, even the dogs and cats were gone, and their automobiles—mostly new station wagons —stood in the driveways.

Then Warren Burke came to the office of the county attorney to complain that his wife and four...