Word: jehovah
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Almighty has His own spacious way of doing things, and that often He plans to take many thousands of years to accomplish some far-reaching purposes. . . . Cannot one venture to conclude, accordingly, that even Herr Buchman and his projected 100,000,000 adherents are not likely to stampede Jehovah into a general upset of His vast cosmic processes...
Last week Premier Calinescu of Rumania received a heart-warming telegram, praising him for a "noble gesture." What Premier Calinescu had done was to lift a ban on a Rumanian religious minority -250,000 Baptists, Seventh Day Adventists, Jehovah's Witnesses and others. Rumanian Baptists sent the telegram of gratitude to Premier Calinescu, promptly resumed worship in their 1,500 little chapels and meeting houses...
...Conference" was already off on the wrong foot. Arabs refused to sit in the same room with the Jews.* On the first day the Arabs appealed to Allah, the Jews to Jehovah, and the British, diplomatic as ever, to common sense. Zionist Spokesman Dr. Chaim Weizmann declared that under the Balfour Declaration and League of Nations mandate, the Jews have a material and moral right to a permanent national home in Palestine, particularly now when the refugee problem is so critical. Arab Spokesman Jamal al Husseini said the mandate was a flop, that Arabs had squatter's rights...
...several names of God in the Old Testament, was considered so awful that Jews never pronounced it, and in reading it substituted another name, such as Adonai. There are no vowel characters in Hebrew, and scholars guessed that, with the missing vowels supplied. JHVH should be written "Jehovah," pronounced "Yah-weh." This belief was followed in the 1901 American Standard Bible- U. S. edition of the English Revised Version of the King James Bible. Today, scholars have their doubts about the authenticity of the word "Jehovah." Last week, Yale Divinity School's Dean Luther Allan Weigle announced that "Lord...
...TIME did not call Judge Rutherford a prophet but a pontiff. Last March the U. S. Supreme Court upheld the right of Jehovah's Witnesses, and other citizens, to distribute pamphlets. Far be it from TIME to judge, from among the clouds of Christian witnesses, which are the true followers of Jesus Christ. Jehovah's Witnesses, however, are demonstrably cultists, holding as they do such unorthodox beliefs as that the world has already ended.-ED. Ears Pinned...