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...This would make Juma, the day of rest and worship, fall on the Christian Sunday, yet preserve the traditional sequence of Turkish days of the week. Even simpler than daylight saving, the Kemal plan is open to only one objection: possibly Allah will not like to be worshipped on Jehovah's day. Until popular feeling on this Godly point can be gauged, Mephisto Kemal will...
...JEHOVAH'S DAY - Mary Borden - Doubleday, Doran ($2.50) A competent novelist, Mary Borden has set in frameworks of nice prose such swift tumultuous stories as Jane, Our Stranger and Flamingo. But none of her past work presaged the ambitious conception, the flights of rhetoric displayed in her present work, which is the story of Evolution reduced to the limits of the popular novel. Jehovah's "day," a million years in human reckoning, dawns with Eryops, fat and repulsive Mud Puppy who dragged himself from primordial slime; ends with Peregrine, fat and lovable scientist who rose to planes...
...middle ages when the Jews were hated most bitterly by Christians, the legend arose that the blood upon their doors was that of Christian children whom Jews deemed the most suitable sacrifice to their Jehovah...
...True or not," ye gods! So your learned Religious Editor is not really certain in his own mind whether or not Jews slaughter Christian children to their Jehovah! And it is he who is charged with providing religious information to your Christian and Jewish readers...
...Jewish half gave Moses dispassionate insight into Hebrew nature-thus he chose not to enter Canaan knowing that it was the promised land only as long as it remained a promise. (The Bible claims, on the contrary, that Jehovah forbade him enter because he had sinned with a foreign light of love.) Untermeyer notes radical differences between Joshua's matter-of-fact record, and Nath's beautified narrative: Joshua itemizes the miraculous God-sent path through the Red Sea as matter of calculated tides and wind...