Word: adventist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...left the Red Sox for 68 hours, contemplating the possibility of going "to Bethlehem, Israel," to get "nearer to God." He was drunk and tired, they said. But Conley was sick of his two-sport grind, and he admitted later that "religion saved me. I became a Seventh Day Adventist. I would have been a first-class drunk. I would have blown everything. I was going pretty fast for a lot of years. So I've kind of settled down, thank heaven...
...from Western Christians for Protestants who want to leave. That may change. Amnesty International has launched a major campaign on behalf of imprisoned Protestants, calling for protest letters to Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev at the Kremlin. Among the many prisoners: the oft-jailed leader of a breakaway Seventh-day Adventist group, who has just been sentenced to five years of hard labor...
Some parents seek to avoid legal tangles by registering their children in correspondence schools. Among the largest are the Home Study Institute of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (1,100 elementary school children, 2,000 high school level) and Baltimore's Calvert School (4,500 elementary). Calvert's home instruction is said to have started when its headmaster made up lesson packets for children kept away from school by a whooping cough epidemic...
...interested mainly in pushing their own arcane dogma as the one and only Truth. But as Weinstein puts it, In These Times is a "political publication, not a religious one." (Curiously enough, the paper was originally called "These Times" until a copyright search turned up a Seventh Day Adventist publication by that name...
...dwarfed forms, crippled limbs, misshapen heads and deformity of every description." During one trance, "companies of females" appeared to her; those wearing the floor-length dresses of the 1860s looked "feeble and languid," while those in shorter skirts had "cheerful countenances." For ten years she struggled to get her Adventist sisters to wear their skirts nine inches above the floor, over long trousers. But her "dress reform" caused complaints and embarrassment till a new vision told her to become silent on the subject. She gratefully complied...