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Died. Sonyu Otani, 53, onetime chief abbot of the Honganji sect of Japanese Buddhists; in 1937-38 Minister of Overseas Affairs; head of the Japanese-controlled North China Development Co.; of pneumonia; in Kalgan, China...
...David. Male members of this U. S. cult neither shave nor trim their locks, eat no flesh, in the stout belief that thus they will be among the 144,000 elect when Gabriel blows his horn. Judge Dewhirst, rich onetime California jurist, bearded the Appeal Board to beg his sect off from Michigan's unemployment-compensation taxes. He admitted his colony was in business, but protested against the tax on the ground that the House of David is "religious, charitable and educational." The Board was impressed by his appearance but reserved decision...
...supposed to. The Society is displeased that the Old Quaker trademark is a picture of William Penn, standard-bearer of Quakerism in America; that some Schenley advertisements have featured a photograph of a whiskey drinker in Quakerish dress. Last week, as mad as members of a mild, tolerant sect can be, some Friends proposed to do something about the whiskey...
There are 12,000,000 Baptists in the world, 10,000,000 of them in North America, where they are the largest Protestant sect. Last week 50,000 Baptists from 60 rations totally immersed Atlanta's hotels, boardinghouses, Baptist homes, tourist camps. These were '"messengers" from far-flung local churches which, never bound by anything Baptist conventions say or do, are the cornerstone of the Baptist faith. In its week of oldtime oratory and hymn-singing, the Atlanta congress was to hear much of the need for Baptist evangelism, for Baptist freedom of worship in a troubled world...
Recently tall, husky Sampson Nkbinde tried to collect a bad debt from Chief Shembe of the native sect of Nazareth Baptists, who pride themselves on never smoking, never drinking, never getting angry. Chief Shembe would not pay. Then Sampson rose in his wrath and slew four Nazareth Baptists. Still Chief Shembe would not pay. Sampson said, in effect, Pay-or else...