Word: adventist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there is a kind of A.A. for smokers. Like A.A., its meetings have spiritual overtones. It is led by a barnstorming preacher of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and a physician. At the end of their five-day course, they claim, 75% of all signees give up smoking, and up to 40% are still off tobacco a year later...
When we accepted a call to evangelistic work with the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Iran, many of our friends and relatives in the U.S. expressed concern that we would be living in the gunsights of the aggressor. Now it is our turn to be concerned. They are obviously closer to and in more danger of trouble than we are here...
...Christian Practice? Paradoxically, the color question stirred up the one breath of dissidence at the San Francisco conference. "The religion of the Bible recognizes no caste or color," said third-term Adventist World President Reuben R. Figuhr, reiterating the historical position of the Seventh-day Adventists. But militant Negro Adventists, banded together in the Laymen's Leadership Conference, charged that church practice is "unChristian" compared with officially stated policy. Case in point: Burrell Scott, 38, building contractor and leading lay official of the Negro Adventist Church of Oberlin, Ohio, journeyed to San Francisco to register a protest that...
Bombs in the Garden. One group in particular difficulty was the team of Seventh-day Adventist missionaries and their families. 29 people in all, trapped in their mission building. They were at a dangerous spot: halfway between U.N. headquarters and an important Katanga army building a few hundred yards away. For hours the missionaries ducked, as blast after blast struck their walls and plowed up the garden outside. Then they realized that badly aimed bazooka shells from the U.N. compound itself were doing the damage; during a lull in the firing, they hastily evacuated the buildings...
Seventh-day Adventist Welfare Service...