Word: sevenths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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University of Idaho. Two years ago Frederick James Kelly, Dean of Adminis-tration of the University of Minnesota was imported by the University of Idaho (Moscow) to be its seventh president. With him President Kelly brought his good friend Irving Willard Jones, made him assistant president. Immediately thereafter friction began between President Kelly and the State Board of Education. President Kelly thought that Idaho should have a junior college, that the faculty should have more money. The Board thought that the junior college was a failure, that faculty salaries were secondary to the acquisition and upkeep of physical property, that...
Professor G. G. Kretchmar of Walla Walla College (Wash.) last week at San Francisco stated the Seventh-Day Adventists' present tenets as follows: "We accept the Bible as the revealed Word of God and believe that the Genesis record of a literal creation is an inspired record of a historical fact. We utterly repudiate the implication that man originated from any lower form of life. We look forward to the soon-coming of Christ, which will usher in the final restoration of nature to its original perfection...
...occasion was the general conference of the Seventh-Day Adventists. They now have 299,555 members, estimate the net worth of denominational organizations and institutions at $30,967,235 and their 1929 total income from all parts of the world at $45,596,941. They elected as president the Rev. C. H. Watson of Sydney, Australia...
...Seventh-Day Adventists believe, apart from their celebration of Saturday as the Sabbath,* that "between the end of the Christian or Gospel age and the beginning of the New Earth state, there will be a thousand-year period called the millennium; that the Second Coming of Christ, the first resurrection (the resurrection of the righteous dead), the binding of Satan, and the translation of the righteous to heaven, will mark the beginning of this period; that during this time, the wicked will be dead on this earth, Satan and his angels will be confined here in solitude, and the righteous...
...Other denominations observing the Jewish Sabbath are Seventh-Day Baptists, German Seventh-Day Baptists, and Church of God (Adventist...