Word: blessings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Murray stopped off in San Francisco on his way to the C.I.O.'s annual convention in Los Angeles. He had dinner with 600 Western Steelworkers and their wives, reminisced in his soft Scottish burr, then departed, with a "Good night and God bless you." At 11:30, he and Mrs. Murray retired to their room at the Mark Hopkins Hotel, leaving a call for 6:30 next morning. At 6:30, the switchboard rang and rang, but got no answer. A bellboy knocked, then opened the door with a pass key. Mrs. Murray (who is hard...
Substitute for God. While the school is failing so wretchedly, however, so is the Church. For today, says Canon Bell, Americans have come to regard the Church as the "promoter of a respectable minor art, charming if it happens to appeal to you, its only moral junction to bless whatever the multitude at the moment regards as the American way of life ..." Indeed, "the Church has become to most of its adherents a substitute for God," a place for socials and smokers and innumerable Good Causes...
...Tiger. In Richmond, Ind., after seeing her first football game, three-year-old Candice Elias, daughter of the Richmond High School coach, devised a new bedtime prayer: "God bless Mommy, God bless Daddy...
Love Your Enemies. At a service conducted by the Archbishop of York in the local parish church the morning before the conference opened, conscientious Clement Attlee read a lesson from St. Luke: "Love your enemies; do good to them that hurt you; bless them that curse you and pray for them that despitefully use you." That afternoon, the party's executive committee met in a session so secret that even the waiters at Morecambe's old-fashioned Grosvenor Hotel were barred. "This is it," muttered one party leader ominously to a friend when the meeting was done...
...bless him for the enemies he's made...