Word: adventist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wish to enter exception to your article, "Adventist" (TIME, July 26, RELIGION). The whole article is couched in language which tends to cast reflection on the denomination rather than to present an item of news which has naturally caused much criticism of the individual; but why asssume that the religion is responsible for the dereliction of one of its adherents? More important yet, why does the editor in the last paragraph imply that it is a foregone conclusion that the "sect" is "fanatical...
...Korean tribunal sentenced Missionary C. A. Haysmeir to three years in jail because he had painted "Thief" on the cheeks of a little native boy who had sinned. The painting was done with silver nitrate, permanent. All good Seventh Day Adventists deplored the work of their missionary, dismissed him from service. The incident created a great furore in Korean and Asiatic circles; even in the U. S. people noted forcibly the words: Seventh Day Adventists. History. A few New Englanders, formerly devout First-Day Adventists, began in 1844 to observe the seventh day of the week (Saturday) as the Sabbath...
Into the garden where clustered a whimpering lad, his pale mother, a few niched apples and a Seventh Day Adventist missionary there came a maid servant. In her hand she held a bottle of silver nitrate which the missionary, C. A. Haysmeir, had bid her fetch. The pale Korean mother glossed her son's felony with imploring tears. But Missionary Haysmeir picked up the brush portentously. He dipped it into the bottle of scarifying chemical...
...little Korean boy shrieked in bewilderment. Calmly, with delicacy, Adventist Haysmeir etched "Thief" on the boy's either cheek. It did not hurt much. What hurt was the later ridicule of playmates who jeered the little fellow out of school. Missionary Haysmeir was dismissed last week by the Far Eastern organization of Seventh Day Adventists...
...South American Indian princess. On the tropic shore, all the little Incas went "Inck, inck, inck," danced with joy to see the long-awaited galleon. Some such vision swam before the eyes of Reverend and Mrs. F. A. Stahl when announcement was made last week at a Seventh Day Adventist camp near Worcester, Mass., that they had been presented with a houseboat by Mrs. Heber Herbert Votaw, wife of a superintendent of federal prisons, sister of the late President Warren Gamaliel Harding. Mrs. Votaw once was a missionary in Burma...