Word: beholding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have attended services at many Episcopal churches, particularly in New York and Pittsburgh. At every service, the rector has made use of the prayer to give the President "wisdom" instead of the time-honored prayer to "behold and bless thy servant the President of the United States" which was part of the morning service from 1789 until the revision of the prayer book in 1929, when as an alternative the "wisdom" prayer was added...
...words: "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." "This day shall thou be with Me in Paradise." "Behold Thy Mother. Behold Thy Son." "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?" "I thirst." "It is finished." "Father, into Thy hands I commend My Spirit...
Second; how is democracy today surviving under fire in England and the Empire? The answer is, admirably. Not only is personal liberty interfered with less than in many neutral nations, but a new spirit of solidarity and unselfishness has arisen that is inspiring to behold. The structure of old England is being shot away, but the first parts to go are the old snobbery and caste consciousness, and there is very hope that England will emerge from this fight, as from the last, more truly democratic than ever before...
...even the often interesting French cult of the soil is present. Absurdly mangled sub-titles assure you that the life of the French Canadians is, down at its firm and far-reaching roots, beautiful to behold. But blizzards and wolf-chewed corpses, ignorance and superstition, somewhat vitiate this argument. See Nazis for a better presentation...
...Harmony and Tranquillity." Opening the 60th annual convention of A. F. of L. in New Orleans, last week, President William Green crowed: "There is harmony and tranquillity here. . . . Behold the contrast as we look this morning to a city beside the sea, where a rebel group is meeting...