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...Protestants have been turning to their parochial schools. Last week, at a meeting of the International Council of Religious Education in Columbus, Ohio, Evangelical Lutheran Pastor Clarence Peters of St. Louis submitted some statistics to prove the point. Enrollment in parochial schools supported by three Lutheran groups, Mennonites and Seventh-Day Adventists reached 133,366 in 1947, an increase of nearly 40% over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Protestant Parochials | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

Pitcairn's teachers have long been natives trained by Seventh-Day Adventist missionaries and hired at $20 to $40 a year. British inspectors who had seen them at work found that few of them had ever read a book outside school, knew little about teaching a course, could barely spell themselves. The islanders were fast forgetting their English, and were slipping into a droning dialect all their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Pitcairn's Progress | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

...Seventh-Day Adventists take their separateness seriously. They do no "unnecessary" work on Saturdays (their Sabbath) and refuse to "strive" against their fellow men. During World War II the U.S. Army came to terms with them. Now U.S. labor is following suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Separatists | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

...hell & brimstone fundamentalist, not to be confused with Softshell - or modern - Baptists, or the Six-Principle, Seventh-Day, Particular, Truthful, Lying, Free-Will, No Effort, Duck River or Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Preachers, Varments, Planners | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

...Seventh-Day Adventist, a conscientious objector, and a veteran, Desmond Doss had something to say about war: "Everybody has got to get back to believing in God and the other fellow and his rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: God & the Other Fellow | 10/22/1945 | See Source »

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