Word: jehovah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...EURJ In 1949, Havre de Grace, Md. denied the voluble Jehovah's Witnesses a permit to hold meetings in the public park. When they tried to hold meetings anyhow, two of them were arrested, charged with disorderly conduct, and fined. Ruled the Supreme Court (unanimously): conviction reversed.*The right of free speech "has a firmer foundation than the whims or personal opinions of a local governing body." ¶In 1946, New York City revoked Baptist Minister Carl Jacob Kunz's permit to preach at street meetings because of his constant, explosive rantings. (He called the Pope the "anti...
...When Jehovah spoke...
Atomic Popgun. Last week, as the Witnesses met in New York City, 20 of their members coming from abroad had been detained at Ellis Island on suspicion of "extreme pacifism." But to the faith-filled, world-defying women and men who "come in the truth" for Jehovah, the internments, the slammed doors, the sneers, and the outright persecution seem to bring a surer sense of belonging to God's Kingdom than any amount of public honor and religious respectability...
...faith held by the Bible-centered Witnesses is concrete and uncompromising. Jehovah's first Witness, they believe, was Abel. Noah, Abraham, Moses, et al. continued the line to the "Chief Witness" -Jesus Christ. According to Witness calculations, Christ did not establish His Kingdom until 1914. Since the Bible says that some who are alive when Christ enters His Kingdom will see the end of this world, it is clear to Witnesses that it is likely to happen any day now. Obviously then, the most important thing that a man can do is scramble onto the right side...
...Jehovah's Witnesses are not pacifists," he shouted to the convention. "We are fighters, but using no carnal weapons . . . We merely sound the trumpet as the advance guards of the mighty heavenly hosts led by the Great Warrior, Jesus Christ. These legions of warring angels follow us with mighty weapons of warfare that will make the atomic bomb, the hydrogen bomb, and all other inventions of warfare by men look like the popgun of a child in comparison...