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...members of the sect called Jehovah's Witnesses believe that Christ's second coming is at hand. Some Witnesses believe the coming is so imminent that they put off marrying or having children until Armageddon signals the final act. Since all governments will soon be overthrown, the Witnesses do their best to ignore governments. They salute no flag, vote in no election, fight in no war. Their work is to bear witness to the coming Christ, and they do the job by doorbell ringing and by pamphlets, portable phonographs, sound trucks and streetcorner speaking. Like the early Christians...
...many Spaniards, the term Protestant has been made to stand for something shameful and dangerous. A pamphlet recently published by a Catholic organization, with the Church's imprimatur, denned Protestantism as a "means invented by a monk named Luther to marry a nun" and as a "diabolical sect invented by the devil...
...Since 1889, the first Cleveland Administration, when the Commissioner of Agriculture became Secretary and a member of the Cabinet. * Of a splinter sect, the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter, Day Saints, which broke off from Brigham Young, refused to follow him to his promised land in Utah and ultimately settled down in Independence...
Like men elsewhere, a thin little Indian with sparkling eyes is deeply worried about the state of the world. He is 34-year-old Acharya Sri Tulsi Ramji, head of the Terapanthi sect of the Jains, a religious group that believes in nonviolence. In a campaign to improve humanity, Tulsi Ramji in 1948 founded the Anuvrati Sangh (Atomic Vows Society). Its members take 148 vows, renewable yearly...
Almost anywhere else, a ceremonial kiss is part of every high-school queen's inaugural. But not in Bethany, Okla. Most of its 2,600 citizens are Nazarenes, members of a strict sect close to the fundamentalist Methodists, who consider public kissing sinful, along with beer halls, smoking, and women in shorts. Last week, when 16-year-old Basketball King Riddell Riggs defiantly kissed 16-year-old Queen Charlotte McClain before an applauding crowd of students, the incident touched off a near civil...