Word: sects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Doukhobors began boycotting war in Czarist Russia a century ago, eventually had to leave. Most of the Dominion's 17,000 industrious, abstemious "Douks" have accepted pacifist alternatives to national service; only the obstreperous sect-within-a-sect called Sons of Freedom balked. In court, the Czar of Heaven disdained to take the oath, said that he would sooner kiss the magistrate than kiss the Bible. Disrobers got two years in the penitentiary; the Czar, a $5 fine...
...jailees were members of a small (2,500 or so members), dissident sect of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. They are known as the "Fundamentalists." Their leader, 71-year-old Joseph W. Musser, did not deny that he had five wives, 20 children. Other Fundamentalists were said to have as many as six wives, 33 children. Musser predicted that polygamy will some day be permitted in U.S. as boon to surplus women who would otherwise be forced into prostitution...
Richard Roswell Lyman, towering teetotaling, 73-year-old bigwig of the Mormons (5th-ranking member of th sect's Council of Twelve Apostles), was the subject of a brief, grim announcement from headquarters. "Notice is hereby given," it ran, "that after due hearing before the Council of Twelve Apostles and upon his own confession [he] has been excommunicated from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints for violation of the Christian law of chastity." Lyman was the twelfth Apostle to be excommunicated since the sect was founded. He was the son of an Apostle, the grandson...
Later scholarly, urbane Presbyterian Moderator Henry Sloane Coffin addressed the Episcopal Convention. Said he dryly: "Our Church is committed to the principle of visible Church unity and never has sought to be merely a sect of the Holy Catholic Church...
...Gumyoji, as in every Japanese prison, there was a Buddhist priest of the Hongwanji sect - in charge of the library, observer of prisoners' behavior and recommender of shortened sentences. These priests also conduct Sunday services in which they sing hymns to tunes taken from the English hymnal, words altered to fit Buddhist doctrine ("Buddha loves me"). The priests exert a powerful influence and beatings never occur until after they have gone for the night...