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...program. It is 46 years since the revolution, and yet the Russian Orthodox Church still claims 50 million members in a population of 226 million; in addition, there are at least 25 million Moslems, 3.5 million Jews, and uncounted thousands who have been converted from nonbelief by the Baptists, Seventh-day Adventists and Jehovah's Witnesses...
...trace their origins to Eastern or Southern Europe. Of the 14 nationality groups covered in the test, the one that aroused the most widespread prejudice of all was "Rumanians/Hungarians" (the study grouped them in a single category). It would appear that if a Rumanian-born woman who is a Seventh-Day Adventist gets involved in a damage suit, she would do well to settle out of court...
...history or literature classes) in public schools, the church objected to the use of public property for religious displays of any kind, opposed federal aid for church-related schools. The report adopted by the assembly also recommended that existing Sunday-closing laws be changed to free Jews and Seventh-day Adventists from observance, urged that tax exemptions be stripped from commercial enterprises operated by church institutions...
...there is a kind of A.A. for smokers. Like A.A., its meetings have spiritual overtones. It is led by a barnstorming preacher of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and a physician. At the end of their five-day course, they claim, 75% of all signees give up smoking, and up to 40% are still off tobacco a year later...
...Democrat (49 to 12)-but there are plenty of Methodists for both parties. With 102 Senators and Representatives, Methodists have passed Roman Catholics as the largest religious group in Congress for the first time since 1959. Congress also has a Schwenkfeldian, a Cumberland Presbyterian and a Seventh-Day Baptist -and six members who give no affiliation at all. The figures...