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Fundamentalist ecstasy and hallelujah-shouting were a vital part of masterful, deep-voiced Alma White's faith. On it she built a sect called Pillar of Fire-with 4,000 followers, 61 churches, seven schools, ten periodicals and two broadcasting stations. Last week, as it must even to "the only woman bishop in the world," Death came to the Pillar of Fire's 84-year-old founder...
After marrying Methodist Minister Kent White, she occasionally took over his pulpit. But ecclesiastical authorities failed to share her congregation's enthusiasm for Mrs. White's preaching, and in 1901 she organized her own sect. Eventually Preacher White's followers took the name "Pillar of Fire" from the title of a bulletin she published...
...this strange age it has been left to the American Unitarian Association to descend to a level of theological discussion never reached in our knowledge by the most obscurantist fundamentalist sect. . . ." Reinhold Niebuhr was counterattacking in force...
Peckerwood Mystics. These tiny congregations represent obscure sects with a fertile confusion of names-the Pentecostal Fire-Baptized Holiness Church, Hephzibah Faith Missionary Association, Pillar of Fire, Church of Daniel's Band, etc. Observers classify them in three main types, often overlapping: 1) Pentecostal, teaching that the Holy Spirit floods the believer in his ecstasy and that the Lord speaks to and through him; 2) Holiness, believing that absolute purity is possible for the Saved upon earth, and distinguishing sharply between the small sect of the Saved and the world (Babylon); 3) Millenarian, looking for the imminent Second Coming...
Federal courts had no right to throw out the case of A.L.O.F. Bell of "Mankind United" (a California religious sect), who had sued FBI agents for unlawful search and seizure. The federal courts had dismissed the case on the ground that there was no federal question involved. The Court ruled that it was for the citizen to decide whether his constitutional rights had been violated, not the courts. Except in the case of "insubstantial or frivolous pleas," the federal courts had to listen...