Word: beseeched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Queen of England in remembrance of the 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...
Rector Hart: "Almighty and Everliving God . . . we make our humble supplications unto Thee for this Thy servant, Franklin, upon whom is laid the responsibility for the guidance of this Nation. Let Thy fatherly hand, we beseech Thee, ever be over him; let Thy Holy Spirit ever be with him; and so lead him in the knowledge and obedience of Thy word, that in the end he may obtain everlasting life...
...Church and State in 1931. Lately Roberto Farinacci, Fascist firebrand, urged that members of Catholic Action groups be excluded from the Fascist Party. Exclaimed the Pope last week: "The Pope therefore says 'Beware!' I advise you not to strike at the Catholic Action associations. I advise and beseech you not to do so, for your own good, because whoever strikes at the Catholic Action associations strikes at the Pope, and whoever strikes at the Pope dies. This is truth and history proves...
...forgive us! Create in us a clean heart and renew a right spirit within us. Help us, we beseech Thee, to bring forth fruits worthy of repentance that we may be redeemed from the joul clutches of this national evil, and may order all our ways in the fear and love of God. Amen...
Grant our supplications, we beseech Thee, through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen...