Word: chaplain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...truant thoughts, direct our wandering wills, as once again with contrite hearts we fling ourselves as penitents in utter self-abasement upon the world's great altar stairs of prayer that slope through darkness up to Thee. . . . Through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen." With this prayer by Chaplain ZeBarney Phillips the U. S. Senate began its deliberations one noon last week...
...monument to a Civil War cavalry colonel who was also a great Republican orator. But altogether unusual was the Senate's action when the soldier-orator had an even greater fame as an antiChristian, a man who, were he still alive, would have picked up the prayerful chaplain's "rules of reason" and used the phrase as a knife to stab the Senate's faith in God. For the man to be honored by the statue authorized by S. J. Res. 21 was no other than Robert Green Ingersoll. Since 1930 the Freethinkers have been collecting funds...
...there was a rustle and a hush.On the platform Franklin D. Roosevelt, who almost at that very hour was completing his 366th day as President of the U. S.. appeared on the arm of an aide. There was a round of applause. The Rev. Ze Barney Thome Phillips, Chaplain of the Senate, raised his hand and began "Our Father, which art in Heaven. . . ." Piously the 3,500 businessmen mumbled the familiar phrases. The prayer over. General Johnson, who had just concluded a four-day wrestle with the critics of NRA (see p. 15), stepped forward to begin his second...
...BARTLETT E. S. MARTIN L. P. MARVEL Deacons RALPH F. Trustees LR. H. MARVEL LIKIN ROLAND MULLIKIN LEVI E. REEVER JOHN E. SATCHELL C. ARTHUR PERRY M. EARLE STAFFORD A. G. SMITH JOHN F. CHAPLAIN FRANK E. COLLINS T. J. SLAUGHTER...
...House, Chaplain Montgomery prayed: "O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good, for His mercy endureth forever...