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...stand stretched across the infield, and huge posters plastered the stadium, bearing messages like Saarnaa Sanaa and Pregetha y gair. They all meant the same thing: "Preach the Word" (II Tim. 4:2). Beneath this slogan, spelled out in 77 tongues, some 77,000 hot, hungry and happy Jehovah's Witnesses had gathered together from 48 states and 68 nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Waiting for Armageddon | 8/14/1950 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Waiting for Armageddon | 8/14/1950 | See Source »

...Decisive Battle. Unconventional as its members are, Jehovah's Witnesses is one of the three major worldwide sects (with the Mormons and the Christian Scientists) that can be properly labeled "Made in the U.S.A." Its founder was a thin, smallish Pittsburgh Congregationalist named Charles Taze Russell, who began preaching the second coming of Christ in the 18703, and organized his followers into the Zion's Watch Tower Society. When Russell died, a pontifical, organ-voiced lawyer, Joseph Franklin Rutherford, took over, built the organization into more or less its present form (estimated membership: 300,000), and called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Waiting for Armageddon | 8/14/1950 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Waiting for Armageddon | 8/14/1950 | See Source »

...Jehovah's Witnesses' world headquarters in Brooklyn, that was an old, old story. Said Milton G. Henschel, one of its top directors: "For years our missionaries have been persecuted wherever there were dictators . . . Our people were among the first thrown into Hitler concentration camps. We are confident that Almighty God will protect our people wherever they are, and that they will continue to preach the Gospel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Witnesses | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

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