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...stay of execution won from Douglas and lost in the Supreme Court (see above) gained less than a day of life for the Rosenbergs. The hour of death was moved from 11 p.m. Thursday to 8 p.m. Friday in order to avoid an execution on the Jewish Sabbath, which begins at sundown on Friday...
...home, In the sun that is young once only, Time let me play and be Golden in the mercy of his means, And green and golden I was huntsman and herdsman, the calves Sang to my horn, the foxes on the hills barked clear and cold, And the sabbath rang slowly In the pebbles of the holy streams...
...near Pendleton, Ore. The following year Harris was baptized a Seventh Day Adventist, after having been attracted by the "clean life" led by Adventists of his acquaintance. From then on, his church and his factory were his two big interests in life. A nonsmoker and a nondrinker, Harris taught Sabbath school and rigidly shut down his small plant on Saturdays (the Adventist Sabbath), despite the protests of customers who wanted their lumber deliveries. But he prospered nonetheless. Harris Pine Mills, Inc. became a $5,000,000 business, with three subplants in Texas, Illinois and Virginia, besides the main office...
...that Saturday, the Old Testament Sabbath, rather than Sunday, is the proper day of rest and worship, and (as Baptists also hold) that baptism must be by immersion...
...Sabbath concerns the changing love between boy and girl in terms of an obsession with dogs. C. C. Humpstone fails to make the love affair or the obsession at all interesting. Yet he sometimes builds up an effect in descriptive passages, and his prose is generally light...