Word: sects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expose Adventist anomalies, Eternity Editor Donald Grey Barnhouse, one of the top leaders of U.S. Fundamentalism, two years ago assigned Staff Writer Walter R. Martin to study the sect. Martin, a "research polemicist," who has already excoriated the Jehovah's Witnesses and Christian Scientists from a Funda mentalist point of view, set to work and found to his astonishment that he brought not a sword but peace...
...touch of that special drollery which is the backbone of British humor. And despite a good deal of moody strumming, there is little in the way of tunes. With its self-conscious patternings and posturings, Cranks, at times, less resembles a revue than the rites of some such sect as the Stanislavsky methodists...
...Ismaili Community, of which the Aga Khan is the leader, is a sect of Islam which broke off from the main religion shortly after its founding...
...Khan, world-famous leader of the Ismaili Community, a sect of the Moslem religion, has endowed a professorship of Iranian at the University, President Pusey announced yesterday...
...virtue of this Gospel there is no doubt. From the time of our Covenant with all the mighty we have prospered as has no other sect on the face of the earth. We have grown in wisdom and in virtue, in character and in charity, in science and in health, in darkness and in light, in piety, and indeed in humility from the very date on which these historic foundations were raised up to the sight of mankind. Like manna from heaven, endowments have rained down upon us, giving us to know that our thoughts are upright and our actions...