Word: sabbaths
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...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...
...Nowgow is traditionally the place where they buried the bodies of the drowned. The 14 survivors were given jobs by a Hindu oil merchant, who put them to work pressing seeds for oil (still a traditional occupation of some Bene Israel villagers). Because they refused to work on the Sabbath, the Hindus called them Shanwar Telis-Saturday's Oilmen...
...remember of their rituals and practices from generation to generation, losing more and more as the centuries rolled on. Then, tradition relates that some time in the 12th century a Jew named David Rahabi, believed to be from Egypt, discovered them. Noting that they abstained from work on the Sabbath, circumcised their male children when they were eight days old, stayed indoors on Yom Kippur, and refused to eat fish without fins and scales, he decided they must be Jews. Rahabi set about rescuing their religion; he gave them prayers and rituals, and taught Hebrew to three of their most...