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...full control of their churches with un-oriental speed before their Government got still tougher. In so doing they merged 42 denominations into one, leaving out only the Roman Catholics, Russian Orthodox, Episcopalians (who refused to recognize the validity of the ministerial orders of the other denominations) and the Seventh-Day Adventists (who held out for a Saturday Sabbath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Christianity in Japan | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

Last week, radio and cable on the Fiji Islands, 2,500 miles south and west of their destination, the Marquesas, began spelling out high adventure's ending. According to the messages, a Seventh-Day Adventist missionary, skirting the jungly, palm-lined shore of Vanua Levu Island in his ketch, had sighted a small, battered craft impaled on a coral reef. On board, to his horror, he found an emaciated woman prostrate and unconscious, another woman and a man both dead. On the stern of the boat was her name: Wing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: Adventure's End | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

...Congregational & Christian Church from 994,491 to 976,388; Quakers from 110,422 to 93,697. Gainers included the Lutherans (3,965,152 to 4,245,160), Mormons (606,561 to 774,169), the Evangelical & Reformed Church (675,804 to 723,877), Christian Scientists (202,098 to 268,915), Seventh-Day Adventists (110,998 to 133,254), the Salvation Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Sad Statistics | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

Machinist Fair was never baptized, be longs to no church, though he thinks the Seventh-Day Adventists are all right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Spirit Lamp | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

...Pledged equal treatment and recognition to all Christian denominations, after a White House visit by Lutheran, Baptist, Seventh-Day Adventist leaders, who came to protest his appointment of a representative to the Papal State (TIME, Jan. 1). To these Mr. Roosevelt outlined, in deepest secrecy, his tentative program for peace proposals. Later, it was learned, the appointment to Rome of Myron C. Taylor may fall through. The President wants to take advantage of the Vatican's unsurpassed diplomatic coverage through world-wide listening posts; the Vatican is not so keen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Check-Up | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

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