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...year-old mother of a small child, was in a Washington, D.C., hospital dying of a bleeding ulcer. Doctors were convinced that a blood transfusion was necessary to save her life. But the hospital needed her consent or her husband's, and both refused to say yes; as Jehovah's Witnesses, they believed that transfusions were contrary to the will...
...Jehovah's Witnesses share a lot of characteristics with Boy Scouts. They are trustworthy, helpful, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, reverent-and (to many outsiders) confounded nuisances. They are conspicuously meek and devout in their big Yankee Stadium meetings, but can be tiresomely importunate in their door-to-door convert hunts and their litigious defenses of their "God-given right" not to vote, bear arms or salute flags...
...ways of this made-in-America faith, but the rest of the world often treats it as an unwanted import. In Sweden, young male Witnesses regularly spend a total of ten months in prison for refusing to accept compulsory military service. In the Soviet Union, dozens of Jehovah's Witnesses are found guilty each year on charges that range from subversion to smuggling...
...ancient Greece, a civilization of first-rate men and second-rate gods, which prized human excellence, beauty and strength above all things. But it owes most to the revolutionary Biblical idea of a direct encounter between man and a single, personal God. Abraham had the temerity to bargain with Jehovah over the fate of Sodom, and Job is noted for having goaded Him into talking back...
...remain a center of concern, and some ministers feel that a vast majority of Christians still have no sense of commitment at all. "When I look out into the market place." complains one Catholic priest, "I can no longer distinguish the believer from the pagan. I can distinguish the Jehovah's witness; I can distinguish the followers of Father Divine -but not the followers of the traditional faiths." A majority of clergymen gloomily accept the guilt of the churches for failing to administer to the Negro, the workingman, the drug addict, the divorcee-to nearly everyone, in fact...