Word: jehovah
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Donald and made him promise to shoot her if she was seized by the rebels. The kidnappers let her see the Generalissimo. As soon as she entered the room where he lay, shockingly emaciated, he showed her a verse in the Bible he had found that very morning: "Jehovah will now do a new thing, and that is, He will make a woman protect a man." She read psalms to him until he slept...
Fifty-three percent of these convictions were of Jehovah's Witnesses, the sect which contends that all its members are ministers of the Gospel. About 8% were what Selective Service calls "rationalists," i.e., men who based their objection on what they had figured out for themselves and not out of religious teaching...
Classed as objectors willing to accept noncombatant duties (1-A-O)-ambulance drivers, stretcher-bearers, etc.-were 6,577 others. (Most famous 1-A-O: Cinemactor Lew Ayres.) In prison for draft-law violations were between 1,000 and 1,300 avowed conscientious objectors, half of them members of Jehovah's Witnesses, whose claims did not get draft-board recognition...
When historians of the Supreme Court begin to write of the decade since 1932, they will be forced to give many a page to the antics of Jehovah's Witnesses. This little sect of religious zealots has caused the Court more headaches than any other group, and now it may lead the Court to the rarest of all judicial acts--reversal of an earlier decision. Last Monday the nine Justices announced that they would hear a second case involving Witnesses who refuse to salute the flag in public schools, and the history of the famous 1940 "Flag-Salute Case" indicates...
Clearest note as to what such cooperation means was struck by Canterbury at the inaugural service of the British Council of Churches. The Archbishop took his text from Exodus (And Jehovah said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me? Speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward...