Word: sabbath
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nahal Oz, the Israeli settlement across from Egypt's old gun positions in the Gaza Strip (see box), delegates from 14 frontier communities passed a resolution against the "strangulation policy of the U.N. majority." For Orthodox Jews who could not express their feelings at public meetings on the Sabbath, rabbis intoned special prayers in Israel's synagogues for the safety of their country...
Some brought along pet doctrines of their own, and gradually some of these grew into a new theology. The Seventh Day Baptists contributed the teaching that Christians are observing the wrong day of worship; the Jewish Sabbath (Saturday) was enjoined by the Ten Commandments and kept by Jesus himself; Sunday worship, they believed, was a 2nd or 3rd century innovation without Biblical authority. This became a cardinal tenet of the new post-Millerites, and by 1860 they were calling themselves Seventh-day (because they observe the Sabbath) Adventists (because they look for the imminent advent of Christ...
...world made Adventists a prickly people; preaching the imminence of the world's end made them a missionizing one. Today there are 1,006,218 baptized (by total immersion) adult Adventists throughout the world (277,162 in the U.S.), with 5,363 ordained ministers and 1,320,883 Sabbath-school members. Members contributed $67,919,368 to their church work in 1955, an average of nearly $200 each;* they give support to 230 medical units (employing 382 physicians), and run 42 publishing houses which turn out 377 periodicals and some 75 books a year...
...shovels to shotgun shells, discount houses, clothing stores, furniture and appliance dealers have turned to Sunday selling. Many department stores even hold "Sunday special" sales. For auto dealers, Sunday trade often amounts to 50% of total weekly sales. Even in Mormon Salt Lake City and Baptist Atlanta, where the Sabbath is scrupulously observed, real-estate agents say that Sunday is still the heaviest day of the week...
...unenforceable. In Arkansas, Colorado and Michigan, blue laws have either been ruled unconstitutional or are under appeal. In New York, an accountant who was arrested last January for working on Sunday was acquitted by a judge who pointed out that baseball stadiums and theaters have long violated the Sabbath with impunity. In many cities where Sunday-closing ordinances are enforced, merchants sidestep the law by selling from branches outside city limits. Rather than turn away customers, businessmen in such cities as Newark and Little Rock, Ark. have repeatedly paid fines and continued to cater to Sunday trade...