Word: sects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Socially, Indian Moslems are a solid, self-conscious minority group (just less than one-fourth of India's population) ; Hindus are a loosely-bound, sect-split, caste-stratified majority (three-fourths...
...could you tell whether one of those immediate ancestors was a Rev. Nicholas Murray ("Miraculous" would come in here) who left his sect and became a Roman Catholic priest and afterwards relapsed, so I have heard. Does TIME know if this...
...only one big item on its agenda: to declare itself legally dead. The M. P. Church, split off from ordinary Methodism for 111 years because of doctrinal disputes and a rooted antipathy to bishops, had rejoined it last spring, thus helped to form the nation's biggest Protestant sect, the new Methodist Church (TIME, May 8). For 16 M. P. churchmen from southern New Jersey, this merger was newfangled and nefarious. For the record, one of them asked the conference whether it "is still the Methodist Protestant conference, or is it now a Methodist conference?" Informed that...
...oval tent big enough to hold a three-ring circus was pitched last week in an Allensville, Pa. hayfield. No circus did it contain but the biennial world conference of the Mennonite Church. A plain-garbed, plain-spoken sect holding the tenets of 16th-Century Netherlander Menno Simons, the Mennonites shun attention and cities alike. At Allensville, surrounded by the rugged mountains of central Pennsylvania that hem in the fertile and tranquil Kishacoquillas Valley their ancestors settled before the Revolution, they felt perfectly at home. The 7,000 delegates came from Argentina, Tanganyika, India and all North America...
Judge Dewhirst revealed that the House of David, never very large, had dwindled somewhat in recent years. It has 171 members, who pool their possessions, employ some 70 other people on occasion. Like many another eccentric sect, it has a rival, and in its native Benton Harbor, Mich.-the House of David "As Reorganized by Mary Purnell," widow of its founder "King Benjamin." Mary Purnell specializes in tourist cabins, tourist-trade souvenirs. Judge Dewhirst runs the four famed House of David baseball teams, spry outfits all, a fruit-packing plant, his own tourist cabins and a cocktail room...