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...Golden Rule" Nash, it happens, is a man who, 55 years ago, was born in Indiana as a Seventh Day Adventist and christened Arthur. He became a minister of the Disciples of Christ, but left the pulpit. He failed in this business and in that business. In 1916, he founded a wholesale tailoring establishment at Cincinnati, manufacturing cheap suits and overcoats. In 1919, he announced that he would run his business on a "Golden Rule" plan. His employes grew in number from 29 to 6,000; his business grew from $132,000 to $7,000,000 turnover. It began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Church Industrial | 6/29/1925 | See Source »

Arose, many moons ago, Mrs. Margaret Rowen, prophet of the reformed Seventh Day Adventist Church,* to predict the world's end, saying: "My son will return on February 6, 1925. Proclaim it-proclaim it from the skies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Day of Doom | 2/2/1925 | See Source »

...Cleveland, in four small rooms at the rear of the Reformed Seventh Day Adventist Mission, middle aged women and young girls congregated to watch the unrelenting minutes burrow into the future. They wore no lace, no ornaments, not even their wedding rings; they painted not, neither did they powder; for, said one: "The gates of Heaven are not open to the gaudy slaves of fashion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Day of Doom | 2/2/1925 | See Source »

...confused with the Seventh Day Adventist Church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Day of Doom | 2/2/1925 | See Source »

...Woertz, a preacher of the Seventh Day Adventist movement, predicted yesterday that the end of the world is to come on February 6, declaring that there are only 144,000 people in the United States who have reached a sufficient degree of perfection to be transported to Heaven when the great day comes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: END OF WORLD MAY CANCEL MID-YEAR EXAMINATIONS | 11/1/1924 | See Source »

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