The Aberdeen meetings of July 1970 are the pivot of the modern history and the reason there are several Exclusive connexions rather than one. James Taylor Junior, by then in poor health and drinking, was found in the small hours in bed with Madeline Ker, a married member of the fellowship. His supporters maintained that the act was deliberate and instructive — a demonstration that the flesh is not the measure of the spirit — and that those who were scandalised had failed a test. Large numbers refused that reading. The fellowship split worldwide, with substantial secessions in Britain, Australia and North America, and those who left formed separate connexions that persist. Taylor died on 14 October 1970. The episode is documented in contemporary press coverage and in accounts from both sides, and it is not a story the PBCC tells about itself.