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...believed the churches should go on record against war (13,997 to 4,638) and 12,904 affirmed that they will not fight in any future war. As to serving as chaplains the ministers were divided, 8,534 for, 8,014 against, 3,779 in doubt. Most pacifistic single sect: the Methodist Episcopal Church...
Twelve thousand Saints sat one day last week beneath the vast, umbrella-like roof of the Latter-day Saints (Mormon) Tabernacle in Salt Lake City. Members of that bustling sect which has 700,000 communicants and the largest priesthood per capita in Christendom (158,045 of the worthiest Mormon males), they had come from every white nation and from Hawaii, the Philippines and the South Seas, to attend their church's 104th annual conference. As always, this opened on the anniversary of that day (April 6) in 1830 when Prophet-Founder Joseph Smith with six others organized the Church...
...Protestant pastors quarrel with Nazidom was set forth last week in the trial at Darmstadt of 29 members of a sect called Ernst Bibelforscher (Earnest Bible Searchers). Their crime was that they take orders only from God, believe that all man-made laws and governments are the work of Satan. In this they include the Nazi State. Police told them months ago to disband. They did not. They were arrested. But their treason was so huge and vague that even Nazi law could not touch them and they were acquitted...
...College freedom of choice in study has replaced in enforced uniformity. The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences has been created, and has commended itself to students and scholars here and abroad. In the Divinity School the pursuit of truth has been freed from the trammels of sect. To the present improved methods of instruction in medicine he has contributed more than any other person in America. Guided by the man of his choice, the Law School has become the accepted model for the teaching of the Common Law. The School of Business Administration has been established, and foundation...
...work by the Episcopal Churches of America had been the subject of an investigation prompted by the million dollar deficit. It was found that only four cents to the dollar was actually given out among the missionaries. Whatever one may feel of the efficacy of missionary work by any sect, this practice was plain larceny, the raising of money under false pretenses. It appears that church-men have been cognizant of the matter for a long time, many employing the funds for purely practical purposes around their vestries and churches, supplementing their salaries, repairing their front porches, and sundries...