Word: blessings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night at all, but a continual light upon the huge and mighty sea." Debarking, he and his crew eventually ended up-in Moscow, where Ivan the Terrible amiably "took into his hand Master George Killings-worth's beard . . . and pleasantlie delivered it to the Metropolitane, who, seeming to bless it, ,saide in Russ, 'this is God's gift'; as indeed at that time it was ... in length five foote and two inches of assize." Martin Frobisher, pushing to the northwest,, met a less favorable reception. He rediscovered Greenland (rising "like pinnacles of steeples all covered with...
Riding up in a truck's cab was black-robed, white-bearded Bishop Evlogios of Koritza-a town in Albania which the Greeks maintain ought to be theirs. The bishop agrees. Again & again the column halted to let the bishop scramble out and bless passing soldiers...
...Bless My Soul!" Generations of students at Cambridge and London, and later at Harvard, learned to look alive when he exploded "God bless my soul!" That invocative usually heralded a significant pronouncement. His voice, in later years somewhat shrill, had the range of a roller coaster. In cutaway coat with stiff collar and ascot tie, Whitehead paced the lecture platform with hands in pockets. Vestigial tufts of white hair fringing a shiny bald pate made him look, said one pupil, "like an angel whose halo had slipped." Now & then Whitehead arrested his pacing to sketch a deceptively simple blackboard diagram...
...pray that Heaven bless Her till...
...this service is far more than the taking of solemn vows. It is one of blessing. For it is only through God's help that you can keep the promise you have made. God's blessing has been given you that you may so live together in this life that in the world to come you may have everlasting life. The ever-living Christ is here to bless you. And He will always be near to help and guide you. His perfect love will deepen your love. The nearer you keep to Him the nearer you will...