Word: prayer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With John V. Farwell and Evangelist Dwight L. Moody in charge, the Y. barged into the Civil War with a vengeance, charged into Army camps, held as many as ten prayer meetings a night. In his spare time, silver-tongued Methodist Moody went on the prowl for gamblers, exhorted them to trade in their playing cards for hymnals (legend has it the Y. was soon stuck with a storeroomful of decks...
...contributions, Prophet Zarur bought whole floors in a Rio office building, hired 120 clerks to handle mail, set up a soup kitchen and a spiritual counseling department, organized a series of "caravans" to tour jails with samba bands and radio singers. One of his most popular radio gimmicks: the "Prayer Chain," a long prayer by Zarur with a pause in the middle for the listener to insert his own petition to God. Says Zarur's secretary: "It cures almost anything...
...Whom the Bells Toll. By noon, Johnson was in the Senate chamber. No sooner had "Amen" sounded to the opening prayer than Johnson claimed the floor for his pretentious speech on recession. "I believe it is essential," he cried, "that responsible leaders prepare now to meet any eventuality. I should think that can be done without any foreboding prophecies of gloom or doom, or any Pollyanna predictions that prosperity is just around some ever-receding corner...
...prayer; An evening prayer, a short benediction...
...says, and a prayer for his dead...