Word: prayer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prayer a personal communion with a loving heavenly Father as
Christ described it to be, or is it just a series of thought vibrations
by which we correct the spiritual imbalance between man and his natural
environment?"
...annual meeting of the Church of Christ, Scientist in Boston last week. Notable agenda item: the trustees' report on the two Christian Science sanatoria in the U.S.-at Chestnut Hill, Mass. and in San Francisco. These establishments resemble hospitals except that patients go there to be healed by prayer and not by medicine. They also provide training for Christian Science nurses, who learn their techniques of prayer and care in three-year courses (regular registered nurses need only a one-year Christian Science course). Enrollments, according to the report, are "at the highest point in many years." Said Leonard...
...last audience in America to which I would make a serious address would be a reunion of college graduates. In such reunions men honoring the ancient shrines of learning with one accord breathe one prayer: 'Make me a sophomore just for tonight.' And few prayers are more unfailingly answered...
Novelist Donleavy himself seems to have some such intention for his picaresque ranting hero and leaves him with a vision of the world running to nothing, like horses on a wintry road at night, and a prayer: "God's mercy/On the wild/ Ginger Man." But before this end is reached, the reader, surfeited on Joyce and ginger ale, may well want to conclude on a new version of Mrs. Bloom's last word to the reader of Ulysses: "No and I said...
...Deum. In Manila, the Municipal Board refused to grant a travel allowance to Councilor Hermenegildo Gonzaga, offered instead a one-minute prayer for his safety abroad...