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Altho.ugh the Doukhobors, a Russian reli gious sect, are usually thrifty and peace-loving, eat no flesh, drink no wine, use no tobacco, their conscientious clashes with the Government have been numerous, made fine headlines. They resent provincial schools so much that they sometimes burn them. Believers in going naked, they occasionally scandalize their neighbors by bare-skin parades protesting against the Government...
Tall 75-year-old Dr. Rufus Matthew Jones, retired Haverford College philosophy professor, is a great & good member of a great U. S. sect, the Society of Friends. Two decades ago Quaker Jones helped found the organization he chairmans today-the American Friends Service Committee, universally respected for its good works...
Jehovah's Witnesses are not a sect or cult. They are true followers of Christ Jesus, and " are engaged in preaching the gospel of God's Kingdom under Christ (Matthew 24:14). They do not "engage in periodic spats with the law because its members like to peddle anticlerical pamphlets." . . . Jehovah's Witnesses are putting forth their best endeavors to aid the people to gain a knowledge of what is contained in the Bible. This is done in part by the publication and distribution of books which ... do not contain the words of a self-constituted "Prophet...
Jehovah's Witnesses, or the International Bible Students Association, is a sect which believes it is helping to establish God's kingdom on earth, distrusts formalized religion (particularly Roman Catholicism), engages in periodic spats with the law because its members like to peddle anticlerical pamphlets, dislike to have their children salute the flag in school. The longtime pontiff of Jehovah's Witnesses is rawboned Judge Joseph Frederick Rutherford. The Judge is the big money-maker for the sect, which claims that 275,000,000 copies of his writings have been circulated in 80 languages...
Iraq's 2,857,077 inhabitants are 93% Moslem, and it is regarded as the cradle of fanatical Shiahism. A wide majority of the illiterate population are Shiites but even the literate Government clique-including youthful King Ghazi, who belongs to the opposed Sunnite sect-sympathize with the Arabs of Palestine. Anti-Jewish propaganda is, in the circumstances, anti-British propaganda. Last spring both Sunnites and Shiites relished a poster depicting John Bull holding a pair of scales in which an Arab, an Indian and a Negro in one tray were outweighed by a fat, long-nosed...