Word: beholding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eternal God . . . Thou Who art of too pure eyes to behold iniquity, look.upon the desolations that are wrought in the earth, and the evil of men who will not do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with their God. We, Thy servants, humbly confessing our share in this evil, pray to Thee against war. . . . We ask for mercy, human and divine, upon the people of Finland. Let not our imaginations fail to see their plight. . . or our hands be slow in helping their affliction. The families that ruthless violence puts in jeopardy, may our generosity assist; and the hapless victims...
...Sunday last June when they worshipped there with Mr. Roosevelt. Lacking an appropriate passage in the prayer book of the U. S. Episcopal Church, the Reverend Frank R. Wilson read from an English Book of Common Prayer: "O Lord, most heartily we beseech Thee, with Thy favor to behold Thy most gracious sovereign, Lord, King George. . . . Strengthen him that he may vanquish and overcome all his enemies, and finally after this life he may attain everlasting joy and felicity, through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen." Later in the service the President's rector read a resolution of thanks...
...America today also hates the German state with a hatred terrible to behold. For her there is no problem of war guilt, no question of allegiance, no division of sentiment. And she holds a certain love for her jolly. British cousins, and her French buddiea. She hopes that they will win. She hopes so very much...
...cheerful, flew from Cannes to London one day last week brimming over with gloom which had been gathering inside him for more than a year. As the official eyes, ears, head and heart of the U. S. in Great Britain, it seemed that he was at last about to behold that unspeakable spectacle which he had dreaded: totalitarian war in which women & children, the aged and the ill, civilians as well as military, orders sacred and orders profane, would all be devastated regardless. Ambassador Joe Kennedy returned to a Britain preparing for death on a scale it believed impossible...
...profound nature of the work as a whole, the optimistic Protestant conception of a blessed eternity for the righteous is the essence of its spirit. The terror of the Day of Judgment is followed by the defeat of Death, and even such despair as that of the second movement, "Behold, all flesh is as the grass," gives way to rejoicing in the happy fate of "the redeemed of the Lord...