Word: pray
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...always well-known for finding books; I would pray and the Lord would answer my prayers and I would have the book," says John Shea, superintendent of the stacks in Widener. He is the one person responsible for finding any missing book in Widener's three and one-half million volume collection. "A Yale professor once told me that their library was good, very good, but it will never be tops because it doesn't have a John Shea," he relates...
...captain of the head (who cleaned the toilets)-and he told them yarns to prove it. There was prayer every morning, and not just before battle. "It was poor psychology, as well as bad theology, to wait until we were looking down the enemy gun barrels before starting to pray...
Everyone involved cooperated with Judge Johnson's idea. Said Warden Jerome Waters, as he shut Kimbrell in a cell: "You will have plenty of time to meditate. Get on your knees and pray!" Kimbrell replied, with tears in his eyes: "Please God, make me a man from now on." He was marched to meals with other prisoners. He was asked to sit, experimentally, in the electric chair, did so, and said: "It made my flesh crawl." He was introduced to one Carl De Wolf, soon to be electrocuted for shooting a Tulsa detective. De Wolf rose to the occasion...
What of today's youth? Some are smoking marijuana; some are dying in Korea. Some are going to college with their wives; some are making $400 a week in television. Some are sure they will be blown to bits by the atom bomb. Some pray. Some are raising the highest towers and running the fastest machines in the world. Some wear blue jeans; some wear Dior gowns. Some want to vote the straight Republican ticket. Some want to fly to the moon...
...There are signs that our era is turning from ruinous doctrines of self-help to a new obedience to God's will and power, from man's exploitive skill to a trust in God's mercy in Jesus Christ. We pray that The Interpreter's Bible may hasten that turning, and prepare the way along which Christ shall come to reign in love, 'King of kings, and Lord of lords...