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...last month's freshman dinner for the Sabbath, Hillel coordinators expected 75 people and 120 attended, Posner said. "It extends back into high schools, where the youth groups are running full force," he said...
...time in which to build a genuine détente with black Africa. For that reason he welcomed the Zurich meeting. For the benefit of his conservative constituency, he criticized a speech in which Kissinger openly denounced apartheid, and fretted that he would not negotiate with him on the Sabbath.* In truth, Vorster came to Zurich a chastened man prepared to do business. For his part, the Secretary easily extracted from Vorster enough concessions to justify the meeting as the promising start of another session of Kissinger-style diplomacy...
...vision. Jesus allowed her to see the tablets on which the Ten Commandments were written. At the very center in a halo of light was the Fourth Commandment, requiring observance of the seventh day. This meant, an angel explained, that Saturday must be kept as the Christian Sabbath...
...Unlike the usual Anglican priest, Wesley set out to spread assurance of salvation to Britons of all classes. Still indefatigable at his 73rd birthday last month, Wesley also insists on "doing good of every possible sort" for the needy. He requires a puritanical code of his flock: no swearing, Sabbath work, buying or selling liquor, brawling, or wearing of rich apparel...
Carter is not a strict Evangelical. When he was Governor, he outraged some Southern Baptist clergymen by calling Georgia's ban on Sunday liquor sales hypocritical because many people patronized bootleggers on the Sabbath. One of his first acts was to end the pompous religious service that his predecessor as Governor, Lester Maddox, held in the state house every morning. Carter thought that the service was pointless...