Word: shrine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...official religion of Japan. However, Shintoism ("The Way of the Gods"), a native Japanese system of nature and ancestor worship, commands the allegiance of 17,000,000. There are two forms of Shintoism, one divided into many small religious sects, the other attached to the State and called "Shrine Shinto." Whether the latter is a religion at all is today a matter of great controversy. A State commission, established in 1929, spent four years pondering it without reaching a unanimous conclusion. The Japanese Supreme Court has ruled that Shrine Shintoism is a religion. On the other hand the Government, while...
Last week the Sunday School Times, world's largest weekly of its kind (circulation: 63,500). brought up the question of whether or not a Christian should bow at a Shinto shrine. Emphatically answering no, it saluted Dr. Charles Darby Fulton, affable, Japanese-speaking secretary of the Southern Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, who ordered schools in his jurisdiction in Korea closed-in defiance of the Japanese Government-wherever there were nearby shrines. Korean Presbyterian churches, which are self-governing, may well follow Secretary Fulton's example if the Government tries to force their leaders to visit shrines...
...Papal Nuncio Achille Ratti. He and U. S. Minister Hugh Gibson were among the few foreign diplomats who remained in Warsaw when in 1920 the Bolsheviks advanced upon the city. Warsaw did not fall, but as the Russians retreated they pillaged the countryside, snatched from a shrine in Polotsk the venerated body of Andre Bobola...
...remarkably well-preserved mummy, this relic has traveled much since Bobola, a Jesuit teacher of noble Polish birth, was scourged, beaten, flayed and scalped by Cossacks, who put him to death near Pinsk in 1657. The nearby shrine in which he was buried was successively guarded by Jesuits, Greek Catholics and Russian Orthodox monks before Bobola's relics were taken to Polotsk. In Bolshevik hands they ended up in a medical museum in Moscow-although Roman Catholics were not then aware of their whereabouts. In 1922, within a month after he became Pope, Pius XI ordered...
...grapes, the village of Velrans likes sunlight; for its cabbages, the adjoining village of Longeverne likes rain. One day, centuries back, the peasant folk of the two villages set out for the same shrine to pray for their respective needs. Brisk words led to a brisk battle, and the prayers went unsaid. The feud is still being fought by 20th-century youngsters, even though the blonde schoolteacher (Claude May) at Velrans and the handsome mayor of Longeverne (Jean Murat) are more than willing to set an example in neighborly love. In the children's war, the most telling blow...