FLAGS

(See also Emblems; Flag Salute; Images; Patriotism)

Canal Zone crisis: g64 2/22 29

considered sacred: g64 9/22 11; g63 8/8 18-19; w62 700-701; g62 3/22 14; g62 6/8 23; g61 9/8 23; g60 9/22 19; w57 136; w56 579-581; w54 685-686; lg 242; g52 5/22 18-19; w51 19; w49 365; w47 235-236; w41 56; gt41 17; fc40 13; s 262-263; g37 9/8 785; g37 11/17 25; g34 8/1 695

discussion: g71 9/8 12-15

Flag Day: jp 209; w56 580

history: qm 272; w65 12; g65 6/8 8; bf 225; w56 579-580; qm55 272; w54 685-686; g52 5/22 17-19; w48 19-22; w47 235-236; ta 289-290; g43 7/21 22; g42 10/28 17-18

on postage stamps and automobile plates: w77 63-64

pope’s: w41 61; gt41 29; lo 22; g35 10/23 62

Puritans’ objection to the British flag: sj 14

raising or lowering:

Christian view: w77 63-64; g77 12/22 27-28

court case regarding: g77 12/22 27

United States:

regulations regarding: w76 655

Witnesses respect: sj 13; w74 62; g63 8/8 7, 14; g59 8/22 11; g54 4/8 27; lg 244; g52 1/8 15; w43 368; g42 6/10 24-25; w41 60

worship: g76 9/8 4; w75 217; w71 117

Quotations

considered a living thing: w76 655

give rise to blind love of country: w77 627

nationalism’s chief symbol of faith and central object of worship is the flag: sj 13-14

the flag, like the cross, is sacred: sj 13; w77 63

we’ve turned the flag into a civil religion: w76 655