Word: pray
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...honor the big house-raising, the Pineville Bakery had donated a giant cake that bore on its icing a verse from the Second Book of Kings: "Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed . . . and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither." The "little chamber" that the 700 built that day for Pastor Kelly and his school turned out to be 19 brand-new, four-room cottages. By nightfall, as the people drove away, lights were already burning in some...
...Inward prayer is the nourishment of the soul," he wrote. "For one may pray without forming or uttering any words, without consideration or speculation of the mind . . . yea, without knowing the least thing in a manner relative to the outward senses. And this prayer is the Prayer of the Heart, the unutterable prayer, the most perfect of which is the fruit of Love, and the less perfect a sensibility of our indigencies...
...pray! Let us pray! Prayer is our only safety...
...final day of Park Street's annual Missionary Conference, and the congregation held nine hours of services to raise funds for the missionaries the church currently supports-a spectacular 106 of them. Pastor Harold John Ockenga (rhymes with talk and pray) was more dynamic and persuasive than ever. "We are aware that there are still unreached tribes and peoples numbering probably 600 million people in the world," he said. "We believe it is our responsibility to get the Gospel to those people...
...Archer or Walkeley and compare them to their modern counterparts. The poverty of mind, soul and spirit that gaps the present generation of commentators from their predecessors should lead to despair if that plight did not require a quantity absent from his present day critical scene--hope. Rather than pray and hope for a critical renaissance, the theatre world chooses to redefine the position of the critic in their midst remembering, I fear, that old truism, "to have never hoped is to never have despaired." This indifference to emotion and life expressed in a defensive, fatalistic attitude...