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they were informed that their chil dren must attend an approved school. They protested. The government placed the children in a school. The Sons of Freedom charged that this was kidnapping; worse, the schools were places that taught boys and girls to kill. At the same time, their long-smoldering resentment against being made to record their births, marriages and deaths -— and paying taxes—flared. They bombed bus stations and pas senger trains. They burned down their own homes. They staged nude parades. They dropped explosives in mail slots and hid them in movie theaters. In all, they were blamed for destroying or damaging more than 10 schools to the extent of over $2 million, halting rail service and in general disrupting the area. Yet their religion teache£ them not to harm even the smallest animal; they have been known to let gophers destroy their crops. Their nude parades also caused questions, since one of their funda mental tenets is modesty. So, too, with violence: they are forbidden to harm those they view as hired per secutors of the government — census takers, tax collectors, coroners. Yet, to the Sons of Freedom, dynamiting passenger trains, bridges and utility lines is permissible. In fact, a Son of Freedom cannot, according to his faith, act to save his home if it is burning or even to halt an arsonist setting it afire, because God must have willed that it be destroyed. His deathless love which made Him be God's Spotless Lamb Who died .for me; His triumph over death, His place As earth's great priest with Heaven's grace; His kingdom, certain, soon, to come, When I shall be with Him at Home, His voice to hear, His face to see, Co-heir in His felicity— I must, when this I apprehend, M y praise with that of angels blend, And fall in worship at His feet And own His loveliness replete— The loveliness of God's dear Son, The Altogether Lovely One. — Earl R. Carner Each time mine eyes are made to see again; His pure, sweet life, His charity;
l i d L T S I R I l t I i i Q U E by Betty Bruechert I n these days not many cults resort to violence, theBlack Muslims and the so-called “ Sons of Freedom” being exceptions. This latter non- Christian group is described in the November issue of the Christian Herald, byline Fred R.Zepp; we quote from this article with the Her ald’s kind permission: Then there are the Doukhobors. Basically, there are two branches of this sect, whose name means “ spirit wrestlers.” The larger is made up of the quieter, orthodox men and wom en, numbering perhaps 10,000, who live largely in western Canada with a sprinkling south of that border in Washington, Oregon and California. The smaller is a radical minority of some 2,500 who call themselves the “ Sory; of Freedom.” Originally serfs in 18th century Russia, the Doukhobors migrated to Canada in 1899 and spread over into the U.S. Their religion teaches them that man-made laws should not be recognized, yet the overwhelming majority adapted themselves to demo cratic ways with little trouble. The Sons of Freedom, however, sprang into violence in the mid-1950’s, when There has not been, nor can there be, Such loveliness revealed to me As that revealed in God's dear Son, The Altogether Lovely One. The beauty of the distant hills, The singing birds and laughing rills, The orchards blossoming in spring, The clouds and sky and everything That breathes or shines in golden light, Or twinkles through the restful night—
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