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...Jehovah said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people . . . and I am come down . . . to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey...
...Only Jehovah knew last week how many Jews were moving out of their modern bondage toward the ancient promised Land. By thousands they fled from eastern Europe, where three-fourths of the Continent's 1,300,000 surviving Jews (not including those of Russia) have found no victory in Hitler's defeat.* Their exodus was illegal, clandestine, and humanitarian. A Polish Jewess explained why: "You know what Europe is to me? It's a cemetery. When I walk into a store and see soap on sale, I remember that this may be the body of my sister...
Swift founded the Yosians (rhymes with O'Ryans) as a walking club in 1922. The name is an adaptation of his own. Josiah, which means "Jehovah supports." A pantheist by belief, and an Episcopalian to please his wife, he sees mother nature as "Jehovah in His maternal capacity" healing her children. The first Yosians were readers who wrote in to ask if they might tag along when he took hikes" to hunt material for his column. The dozen nervous nature lovers who first showed up grew into a traipsing mob of 500. The unwieldy crowds have long since been...
Quebec was placed on trial for its devotion to civil liberties, and Quebec failed. Three times, members of the cantankerous Jehovah's Witnesses sect tried to hold public meetings, and three times angry mobs scattered them...
...many Quebeckers, the disorders seemed justified. The Jehovah's Witnesses are virulent in their attacks on organized religion, are particularly offensive against Roman Catholicism. But more thoughtful Quebeckers well knew that the Witnesses, who thrive on persecution, had made a case for themselves in Canada's Catholic province, had showed the rest of the Dominion that many of Quebec's people subscribe to free speech only up to a point. Said the Toronto Star: "The offensiveness of the Witnesses' methods does not justify people ... in taking the law into their own hands...