Word: zion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Recently Maguire put up money to help distribute Iron Curtain over America, by Southern Methodist University Professor John Beaty, a book that the oldest Methodist Church periodical in the U.S., Zion's Herald, calls the "most extensive piece of racist propaganda in the history of the anti-Semitic movement in America." He has also been a supporter of such propagandists as Merwin K. Hart, and worked with Allen A. Zoll, whose American Patriots, Inc. was listed by the U.S. Attorney General as a "Fascist" organization. Zoll at first was an account executive handling the Mercury's ads, later...
...liberal has another answer; a "positive" attitude toward the problem must be created. Here, for example are the comments of Emory Stevens Bucke, editor of Zion's Herald, a Methodist publication...
Last week, for the first time, the hieroglyphics of Sakkara appeared in full English translation in a four-volume work published by Longmans, Green & Co., under the sponsorship of the Zion Research Foundation of Brookline, Mass. The work is the climax of 72 years of scholarship, during which time the texts had been transcribed, and about a third of them translated into German by the late Kurt Sethe. Six years ago the Rev. Samuel A. B. Mercer of Worcester, Mass., a retired Episcopal minister, took on the job of completing the work in English. Buttressed by careful commentaries, the Pyramid...
Last week the shmita was over. Ten thousand pilgrims, most of them newly arrived immigrants from the Middle East, marched to the top of Mt. Zion, where they celebrated the end of the seventh year-the ceremony of Hakhel-for the first time since King Agrippa presided over the rites in 42 A.D. This year, since none of the Israeli government leaders is strictly Orthodox, the head of the state was represented by Jerusalem's chief cantor, who read the Torah from the top of a truck. As he finished, old men blew on the double...
Near the Mount Zion Methodist Church just outside Atlanta, on Highway 41, a onetime barbecue pit has been turned into a Bible classroom. One evening recently, eleven disciples watched Robert L. West go over and flip off the light switch. "It's kinda dark in here without the lights," apologized West, as he walked behind the crepe-wrapped white cross now lighted up by two candles, "but I would ask you to look upon this symbol-perhaps the greatest in the world...