Word: sabbaths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jewish law forbids man to kill on the Sabbath-even a flea or a worm. But an exception is made in the case of head lice and maggots. Why? Because, say the ancient commentaries, these are not real creatures in the line of life but the result of spontaneous generation-the louse from man's sweat and the maggot from decaying meat. Modern science, however, does not accept spontaneous generation; hence there must be some other reason for the law's distinction. Rabbi Tendler's answer: the dividing line is between the organism which exists on living...
...house. On Sundays the whole family walked two miles to morning Presbyterian services in Renton, Father Reston's birthplace, repeated the four-mile round trip for vespers. Sunday meals were cold, having been prepared the night before so that there would be no cooking on the Sabbath. Long hours of Bible and poetry reading inspired in Jimmy's heart the ambition to be a preacher, a calling that Reston's mother stoutly-and with considerable point-insists he is following today...
Michigan's durable (six terms) Democratic Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams doffed his eternal bow tie, donned vestments for a rather surprising role. His Sabbath assignment: lay reader in Lansing's St. Paul's Episcopal Church. His text: Isaiah 60: 1-9; Matthew...
...must have rejoiced to be bringing religion to so remote a cranny of the world. He could only have been amazed at what he found: a community of Indians who had no Bible and could not read it if they had, although they observed the Sabbath and' knew much of Moses' teaching. He settled among them for several months, pieced together the origin of their biblical belief. A group of Peruvian Jews from Lima fled the Inquisition some time in the 16th century, crossed half a continent and settled in the Patagonian mountains; there they had taught their...