Word: adventist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Later that fall, officials of the Seventh Day Adventist Hospital found him amid the bomb rubble, frail and ill but still alive...
...theme of the Assembly: "Christ, the Hope of the World." European Protestant theologians, it is expected, will insist that the Hope is only in the strictly Biblical Second Coming of Christ and the End of the World, a theory that ecumenical Americans tend to leave to the fundamentalists and Adventist sects. Against this view many U.S. theologians will probably maintain that the Hope is in the gradual and practical Christian betterment of the world. In the current issue of the interdenominational quarterly, Religion in Life, pessimistic Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr asserts that the choice of theme was a bad idea...
...More than 8,000 people gathered in San Francisco for the 47th General Conference Session of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church. To replace retiring President William H. Branson, 66, they selected 57-year-old Elder Reuben Richard Figuhr. During Branson's four-year incumbency, membership increased 29%, to 924,822 adults. One of the latest Adventists: Film Star Penny Edwards (Pony Soldier, Powder River) who gave up a Hollywood career for her new faith (TIME, April 12). Her face was innocent of lipstick, but she confessed to using a bit of powder. "Even Adventist ladies have an aversion...
...Plymouth Rock. Though the original colonists died out and the islands were later resettled with African slaves from the West Indies, the heritage of tongue and religion somehow endured. The 6,000-odd black-skinned, English-speaking islanders who live there now are 80% Baptist, 15% Seventh-Day Adventist, 5% Roman Catholic. Their pride and joy are their schools; literacy is 100%, compared to the Colombian mainland average of 56%. From the islands last week came jolting news that a Spanish priest, named as Inspector of Education for the islands by the Colombian government, had shut down the Protestant schools...
...Hollywood last week, Actress Penny Edwards, 25 (Pony Soldier, Powder River), announced her retirement from the commercial motion pictures to devote herself to full-time church work. Actress Edwards, wife of TV Director Ralph Winters, was baptized a Roman Catholic, will now become a Seventh-Day Adventist. Recently, she said, she had felt a sudden surge of religious faith. "I felt myself bursting with love and happiness. At that moment, I wanted to have a baby. Then, two weeks later, I found I was pregnant." Turning to serious study of the Bible, she found that the truths of Scripture were...