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...largest religious gathering in the United States" got under way this week when Jehovah's Witnesses swept down upon New York City for their 19th convention. There were some 125,000 of them...
Witness President Nathan H. Knorr of Brooklyn set off the eight full days of song, prayer and preachment in Yankee Stadium with a fiery sermon. "Jehovah's Witnesses are one united flock!" he cried. "They will follow their King-Shepherd in His pastoral work until all of His sheep of this generation have been found and gathered out of all nations into the one flock, there safely to abide and attain endless life in Jehovah's new world...
...Jehovah & the Witnesses...
...didn't matter. "Billy Budd" was too much a parable, and its setting in another century on the high seas made unreal characters more royal, in many ways, than flesh and blood can ever be. This general, however, is another good nor evil; he is an Old Testament Jehovah, a god-man who cannot break a code of justice. The general is not a thinker, though he must decide what fits the law; he is basically, and in spite of his final decision, one who must always take orders. Although he seems to become momentarily human in his final decision...
...Jehovah's Witnesses, who do their indefatigable proselyting on doorsteps and in living rooms, on street corners and in public parks, are old hands at being banned, arrested, jailed and run out of town. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision on the 45th case which the Witnesses have fought up through the lower courts to the highest tribunal in the land. As in 37 of the other cases, the court found in favor of the Witnesses, unanimously reversed a ruling by the Rhode Island supreme court that the city of Pawtucket had been justified...