Word: zion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Zion Trouble. In exchanging the life of a teacher for that of an administrator, Finkelstein was true to one of the deepest currents of his faith. For Judaism is a this-worldly rather than an other-worldly religion; its basis is action rather than dogma. Obedience to the Law is far more important than belief. For the Law is truth set forth in terms of action...
Because WXHR limits itself to a small staff, the atmosphere at its Mt. Zion transmitter is one of informality. Manager Thornton's announcing costume consists of a red lumberjack shirt and engraved cowboy boots. In contrast with this, there is a formidable battery of technical equipment. Last Thursday night, for instance, they used a special recorder from the MIT Accoustic Laboratories to broadcast the New England Philharmonic. Because of WXHR's technical quality and sound advertising policy it has a good chance of staying in business. If listeners fail to maintain the station by supporting its advertisers, it will...
...half an hour before the Miracle Youth appeared, assorted assistants built up an atmosphere of gloom and doom. A choir from the local Zion Bible Institute offered a morbid song called "Night and Day." Many of the lines, like "night is so depressing," reminded one of the famous "Gloomy Sunday" which drove scores of Europeans to suicide. After this selection, a former African missionary made ecstatic comments, "If angels can sing as well as that, I'm going to heaven--how about you?" There were shouts of "Yes, Oh Yes Jesus" from the front rows. Then the "Connecticut Songbird...
...American Jew really wants to assimilate, says Daiches, but he feels guilty about it and "gets his assimilationist urge horribly mixed up with the fiercer kind of Zionism ... No one would be more astonished or upset than the American Zionist if out of Zion were really to come forth the Law and Word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He hopes that out of Zion will come forth good Rotarian Israelites and Hebrew-speaking hot-dog sellers...
...Representing the Congregational Christian Churches, the Disciples of Christ, the Evangelical and Reformed Church, the Methodist Church, the African Methodist Episcopal and African Methodist Episcopal Zion Churches, the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (Southern), the International Council of Community Churches, and the Association for a United Church in America...