Word: christe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Witnesses take their name from the twelfth chapter of the Old Testament Book of Isaiah. Their leader, the late "Judge" Joseph Rutherford, taught that they "must be witnesses to Jehovah by declaring His name and His kingdom under Jesus Christ." They claim half a million followers in the U.S., several million abroad. In peacetime their nonconformity got them deep in trouble with local and state authorities. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1940 that their children must salute the flag in public schools, in 1942 that they could not distribute literature without peddlers' licenses. Jehovah's Witnesses regard...
...Suppose," said he, "that Jesus Christ came back and was going to feed the multitude with five loaves and two small fishes. What would happen...
Against attempts to whip up hatred of the enemy, the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America has raised a militantly Christian and indignant voice. In spite of such whipcracks as Author Rex Stout's article, "We Shall Hate or We Shall Fail," the Council was glad to report that the country was singularly free from hatred...
...World War I. The current national best-seller list includes two novels with religious themes. Jewish refugee Franz Werfel's Song of Bernadette (a story of Our Lady of Lourdes) has sold over 500,000 copies. Protestant Minister Lloyd C. Douglas' The Robe (a story of Christ's passion) has sold 240,000 copies...
Other minds and imaginations than those of statesmen focused last week on the role the U.S. must play in a future world. Two years ago the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America set up a commission to study the bases for a "just and durable" peace.† Last week came the commission's findings-a six-point program which it hopes will be adopted by the Congress and Administration as the official policy...