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...look back: the Fundamentalist contingent is in hot pursuit. The conscientious scholarship of a Leakey notwithstanding, there are millions of people who still pray that any truth of evolution will not become generally known or believed...
...full house of 2,000, and 200 people were turned away. She acknowledges that the fight has hyped sales of her eighth book, The Anita Bryant Story, in which she stresses, in evangelical terms, her personal relationship with God. She also writes: "I don't hate homosexuals. I pray for them...
...professing total submission to God. Hundreds of thousands of people flow in circles around the Ka'ba each day and night during the whole year, for this practice is not limited to the period of the pilgrimage. During the night the crowds thin out and the worshipper can pray in close vicinity to the Ka'ba. Moslems sit under the endless arches of the mosque reading the Koran, but starting with dawn, the mosque fills up with worshippers flocking in for morning prayers, the first of the required daily five prayers. Then everybody faces the walls...
...apes and monkeys, the great naturalist incurred the derision ?and wrath?of millions round the world. "Descended from apes!'' exclaimed the wife of the Bishop of Worcester when she heard the news in 1860. "Let us hope it is not true, but if it is, let us pray that it will not become generally known...
Besides talking to their friends about Christ, Harvard Christians do a great deal of praying to ask God to show their friends the right way. They pray for non-Christians by name in small discipleship groups, and often have lists of those they are particularly concerned to help. Nelia Worsley '79 sent a letter over the summer to fellow Winthrop House Christians saying "What the Lord's been teaching me lately" is that they should be more diligent in praying for non-Christians, "silently lift up" people at meals through prayer, and make it clear through their attitudes and actions...