Word: sects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nothing contained in this Act shall be construed to require or compel any person to serve in a combatant capacity in any of the public armed forces of the United States, who is found to be a member of any well-recognized religious sect whose creed or principles forbid its members to participate in war in any form, if the conscientious holding of such belief by such person shall be established under such regulations as the President may prescribe; but no person shall be relieved from service in such capacity as the President may declare to be noncombatant...
This is all the Selective Service Act has to say about conscientious objectors. The exemptions allowed by it are apparently much narrower than in World War I, when many individual objectors, not connected with any sect, were respected. But probably the Act will be liberally interpreted, especially if a large number of men declare their bona fide objections. It will have to be, if all objectors are to be given a hearing, because many are not connected with any sect, but are none the less sincere...
...suppressed. Christianity has not had a single martyr in Japan since Commodore Perry reopened it to missionaries and traders in 1853. Last week, as the Japanese Government's undercover campaign to purge Christian missions of their foreign elements and reduce Christianity to the status of a minor sect within the Shinto nationalist cult progressed, there was further evidence that Japanese Christians today have no thirst for martyrdom...
...should be characteristic of the Church, and allowance should be made for the individual's attitude," showed what an ecclesiastical revolution widespread divorce has wrought. For paradoxically, Episcopalians, despite their strong stand in the past against divorce, almost certainly have the highest divorce rate of any U. S. sect. Among the Episcopalians whom the revised canon might make eligible for Communion: Elliott Roosevelt, Cornelius Vanderbilt...
This placed Japan's 350,000 Christians on an equal footing with its 41,000,000 Buddhists and 16,000,000 Shintoists, put all religions under the supervision of the Education Department, provided for the suppression of any sect which deviated from Japanese national policy. The Government, full of bland promises as usual, assured anxious Christians that no "Japanifying" of Christianity was intended. But Tokyo's July spy sensation, when seven Japanese Salvation Army chiefs were among those arrested, gave the Government an excuse to change its mind, declare that Christian activities, like every other phase of Japanese...