Word: brethrens
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Minneapolis, 35 C.O.s (conscientious objectors) have been voluntarily starving for six months. Under the watchful eyes of four religious service committees (Brethren, Quaker, Mennonite and Unitarian), these "human guinea pigs" of some ten denominations have lived in the South Tower of the University of Minnesota stadium, undergoing scientific experiments in semistarvation. This week they were starting a three-month buildup, the final stage in a year's program. Purpose: to determine the physical and mental effects of starvation on normally healthy men from 19 to 33, and to find ways of best utilizing food from the limited resources available...
Conscientious objection (refusal to participate in war) is nothing new in the U.S. There were C.O.s in both the Revolution and the Civil War, when members of Christian groups like the Quakers, Mennonites and Brethren, in the belief that Christ commanded Christians not to kill, refused to fight in armies. In World War II the attitude toward C.O.s and their treatment has been enlightened. The Selective Service Act makes only two conditions for conscientious objection: 1) the C.O. must be opposed to "participation in war in any form"; 2) his scruples must come from "religious training and belief...
Into the breach stepped brisk, friendly Benjamin G. Bushong, dairy farmer, cemetery owner, and chief red-tape cutter of the 226-year-old pacifist Church of the Brethren ("Dunkers" - because they practice baptism by total immersion). For months Dunker Bushong had been pushing his church's own overseas relief program (TIME, July 24, 1944), only to strike a snag. City Dunkers had raised money for calves and feed. Country Dunkers had fed and fattened the animals into fine bulls and heifers. The Dunkers had the cattle but they had no ships...
Dunker Bushong made a suggestion: if UNRRA would provide shipping space for Dunker cows and bulls, the Brethren would rustle up seagoing hustlers to herd the UNRRAnimals. UNRRA was delighted and agreed to pay volunteers $75 monthly expenses, token salaries of i? daily...
Hardest hit by a recent rash of parties (on the week ends, naturally) have been our married brethren, whose role of gentlemen in waiting, for you wife to escape such well-known Ali Babas as Joe Neil, "Terrible Tom" Mullen, and smooth-talking J. F. Stonewall Smith...