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Pitcairn's teachers have long been natives trained by Seventh-Day Adventist missionaries and hired at $20 to $40 a year. British inspectors who had seen them at work found that few of them had ever read a book outside school, knew little about teaching a course, could barely spell themselves. The islanders were fast forgetting their English, and were slipping into a droning dialect all their...
Last week the Adventists announced at they had signed an agreement with the United Auto Workers (CIO). Adventist auto workers agreed to contribute the monetary equivalent of union dues to a sick-benefit or some other workmen's benevolent fund, and to refrain from backing either side in the event of a strike. In return, they will receive from the union a card exempting them from all dues, meetings and other union activities in any of the U.A.W.'s 900 locals...
Like his Master, he was a carpenter. He was also a Seventh-Day Adventist, and a pacifist. Desmond T. Doss, of Lynchburg, Va., refused to bear arms in World War II. He explained simply: "It is right there in the Ten Commandments. Thou shalt not kill." But Doss did not object to serving as an Army Medical Corpsman. When he was sent overseas he asked for assignments in the front lines. He felt that God would not let him perish by the sword if he did not live by the sword, and he had a deep sense of duty...
...Seventh-Day Adventist, a conscientious objector, and a veteran, Desmond Doss had something to say about war: "Everybody has got to get back to believing in God and the other fellow and his rights...
...asked how Christians had fared during the war. "We had a terrible time. All Seventh Day Adventist males were arrested. Everybody who believed in the second coming of Christ or the Last Judgment was asked to appear in court. I was three times arrested. I could not preach...