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When he was almost two months old, Washington was sprinkled in the "orthodox Episcopal manner." At 33 he took oath to conform to the doctrine of the Church of England "as by law established." Throughout his life he was seen regularly in church though he did not often kneel in prayer or partake of communion. Washington's reputation, like that of such Deists as Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine and Benjamin Franklin, is one of coolness and moderation in religion. But through his time swept a hot blast of evangelism, chiefly in the Methodist and Baptist faiths. General Washington...
...Laugh Parade Funnyman Ed Wynn came ambling on stage aboard a camel. Forgetting the correct word to make the camel kneel, he tries several commands, finally whispered ''Goldman Sachs." The camel collapses in a heap...
...people kneel or bow in silent prayer upon entering the Sanctuary...
Ickornshaw, derived from Norse words meaning "Oak in the Woods," was the new viscount's village birthplace. Because of his infirmities, stooped Viscount Snowden did not kneel to the Lord Chancellor as custom prescribes. Ostentatiously Lord Snowden's former friends in the present Labor Party boycotted his swearing in. But present were Scot MacDonald, most of the Cabinet and the new peer's longtime political enemy Winston Church ill, with whom he used to alternate as Chancellor of the Exchequer...
Said Publisher Farrar: "It's a new kind of censorship to me." His two children, John Jr., 4½, and Alison, 2½, he admitted, kneel each night and say "Gentle Jesus, meek and mild...