Word: pray
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them, and the state churches of Lutheran persuasion might confess how far they went astray in their suppression of Anabaptists. The Church of Scotland might contemplate its pressure against dissenting minorities, and the churches of South Africa their sins of the past towards others. New England Congregationalists might pray pardon for their treatment of Quakers, and Friends for their refusal to protect the Scots on the frontier. Virginia Anglicans might ponder whether their failure 350 years after Jamestown to number more than a fraction of the Baptists and Methodists in that state is not due to their reluctance to admit...
...Signed into being the International Atomic Energy Agency (27 member countries), 3½ years after he first proposed his "atoms-for-peace" plan before the U.N. Said the President: "The splitting of the atom may lead to the unifying of the entire divided world. We pray that it will...
...severity of the critics-who generally understand music 50 years after the public-Mr. Menotti's music should be commended for its honesty, simplicity and clarity. Ah, let's see, what else? Oh yes, he died without a penny. No one was especially overjoyed by his death. Pray for him. Amen...
...Charlotte, N.C. one evening last week, as the local school board gathered in the high-ceilinged city council chamber, one member stood up to offer a prayer: "We beseech thee, O Lord, cast thy shadow before us on this night of decision. We pray for those who will disagree. Enter into their minds and hearts, grant them enlarged understanding." A few minutes later came the board's announcement: acting in concert, school boards in Greensboro (pop. 87,100), Winston-Salem (115,800) and Charlotte (158,800) had approved "on their own merits" certain Negro applications (total...
...doing, not one jot is added to the stature of the Church or its mission in the world, a chore, incidentally, reserved not to Hollywood but to the Holy Ghost. Let us devoutly hope that the cassock and habit may enjoy eternal rest from moviedom's commercialism, and pray that they may never decide to shoot St. Augustine's Confessions with George Raft in the lead...