Word: worshipers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...churchmen alike had a right to rub their eyes in wonder last week at the news from Britain. In the U.S. almost every State makes it a crime to give sectarian instruction in the public schools, but within a few weeks Parliament will actually make religious instruction and daily worship a statutory requirement for every school in the United Kingdom...
...becoming a sort of separate race," said Withington. "They have always been very clannish, and are the only Orientals in Hawaii who don't mix with the others, and breaking off with the home country won't make them mingle any more. Of course, the tremendous power of ancestor worship may work against this, but I think that the new patriotism is stronger...
...banner with the orange sun. He could imagine himself trying to force his muscles to shove the stick forward and aim himself in the fatal dive. Somehow, he couldn't quite work up the nerve. His muscles seemed paralyzed. Life, even in war, is good fun. He didn't worship the State as an entity more precious than himself. He admired the President, but he had no illusions about his divine ancestry. Vag wasn't even sure that he believed in a God, and if he did he knew it was a God who had some idea of the value...
Professor Steere spent six months recently in Germany, Switzerland, and the Scandinavian countries to study conditions for the American Friends Service Committee. Among his works are "Prayer and Worship," "Community and Worship," an introduction to "Kelly's Testament of Devotion," a translation of Kierkegaard's "Purity of Heart...
...dangerous as the questioning mind. In Russia, "the Orthodox Church, the Jewish synagogue, the Mohammedan mosque, the sectarian meetinghouse, have been involved in a common ruin." In Germany the extremist persecutors of the church troop back to the primeval forest to revive the fervors of Wotan worship and inspire pagan Siegfrieds to blitz the Fafnirs of "pluto-democracy." History, the record of the race, has been perverted to glorify the party, the leader, or serve the changeable politics of the total state...