Word: jehovah
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Many of Duplessis' civil-rights policies would have been incredible anywhere else in North America: the notorious Padlock Law for political groups he deemed "Communist," his harassment of Jehovah's Witnesses, the brutal record of his tough provincial cops in labor disputes. Duplessis was sometimes at odds with high Catholic churchmen, but in rural areas, Le Chef, le pere, and the preservation of the faith were indivisible...
Across the world this week Jehovah's people gathered, family by family, in huts and houses, slum flats and luxury apartments, to celebrate their Lord's great act of deliverance-the Passover. It was the 3,271st anniversary, according to Jewish reckoning, of that dark night when the Lord moved through Egypt, striking down the firstborn, "from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the first-born of the captive that was in the dungeon . . . and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead...
Your Aug. 11 article concerning the Jehovah's Witnesses' convention was extremely interesting. It seems that the more fantastic the dogmas a particular sect or religion has, the easier it is for them to gain converts...
...Witness for Jehovah since 1913, it is rather difficult for me to tell whether your article was intended to be informative or possibly sarcastic. At any rate, please accept my personal thanks...
...suffer "seven times" for its sins (Leviticus 26:18), Russell had to measure the length of a "time." Revelation, he reasoned, calls 1,260 days 3½ "times," so he doubled that to make seven "times" equal 2,520 days. Discouraging result: 600 B.C. Later he found Jehovah saying (Ezekiel 4:6): "I have appointed thee each day for a year." So Russell changed the 2,520 days to years, subtracted 606 (dropping 607's last two months), got 1914 as the date of Armageddon...