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...should be characteristic of the Church, and allowance should be made for the individual's attitude," showed what an ecclesiastical revolution widespread divorce has wrought. For paradoxically, Episcopalians, despite their strong stand in the past against divorce, almost certainly have the highest divorce rate of any U. S. sect. Among the Episcopalians whom the revised canon might make eligible for Communion: Elliott Roosevelt, Cornelius Vanderbilt...
This placed Japan's 350,000 Christians on an equal footing with its 41,000,000 Buddhists and 16,000,000 Shintoists, put all religions under the supervision of the Education Department, provided for the suppression of any sect which deviated from Japanese national policy. The Government, full of bland promises as usual, assured anxious Christians that no "Japanifying" of Christianity was intended. But Tokyo's July spy sensation, when seven Japanese Salvation Army chiefs were among those arrested, gave the Government an excuse to change its mind, declare that Christian activities, like every other phase of Japanese...
...beauty that has not a foundation in use, soon grows distasteful, and needs continual replacement with something else." This maxim would sound serviceable to most modern designers of functional furniture. It was devised by devout, unlettered members of the communistic religious sect who called themselves Shakers. Kindled by the ardor of Ann Lee, a mystic Englishwoman who led a band of six men and two women to the U. S. in 1774, the Shakers took as their motto "Hands to work and hearts to God." They labored, shook away their sins, grew and flourished mainly in colonies in eastern...
...Smallest sect reporting was the Friends (Primitive), whose lone congregation had 14 members. Most remarkable sect: the Two -Seed -in -the -Spirit Predestinarian Baptists (16 churches, 201 members), who believe that Adam & Eve were infused with a "good seed" from God, that Eve received a "bad seed" from Satan. Since everyone is born of either a good seed or a bad seed, and nothing can be done about it, this church does no gospel preaching, no missionary work...
...form of a book written on golden plates and a Urim and Thummim (stones fastened in silver bows) which enabled him to translate it. The result of Seer Smith's labors was the Book of Mormon, which ever since has been the treasured gospel of the sect he founded, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints...