Word: jehovah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second row facing Judge Robert Dunne sat Cheryl's parents, Darrell Labrenz, 25, and his wife Rhoda, 20. They had been childhood sweethearts at Dalton (pop. 400) in Wisconsin's dairyland. Little more than a year ago, they joined Jehovah's Witnesses and moved to Chicago with their first child, Kit. (As often happens in cases of Rh incompatibility, there had been no difficulty with the first-born.) Now, red-eyed and distraught, each with a Bible in hand, they fought off the city health authorities...
...Will you now agree to a transfusion?" Both refused. Darrell Labrenz' position, as he had explained it to Bundesen: "The sanctity of the blood is a thing we cannot tamper with. Everybody knows that blood is the life force and we do not have control of life. Only Jehovah has that. Transfusion, which is a form of drinking or eating blood, is forbidden to us who are Jehovah's Witnesses...
...police raids last week, the East German Communists officially suppressed Christian Science. It was a repetition of their move last September against the Jehovah's Witnesses: offices and meeting places were padlocked without warning, literature was confiscated, and Christian Scientists themselves were threatened with arrest unless they stopped all practice of their religion...
Reason announced by the Reds: Christian Scientists violate the law against practicing medicine without a license. Probable real reason: like the Jehovah's Witnesses, the Christian Scientists maintain their international headquarters...
...this goes to Connelly, who directed, as well as to the talent of the cast. Some of the individual performances are little less than perfect. William Marshall, as De Lawd, has immense awe-inspiring dignity. And when Ossie Davis, as Gabriel, cries out "Gangway! Gangway for de Lawd God Jehovah! you almost expect Him to step out of the wings. Noah becomes a wonderful comic creation in the hands of Alonzo Bosan. The list of fine performances in "The Green Pastures" is a long...