Word: prayer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Life in the Monastery is not easy. Candidates are expected to perform whatever chores and duties are assigned to them. They undergo all types of humiliation to learn to live simply for the glory of God. "Obedience, humility, and fervour in prayer," are the goals which the Society seeks...
...Association Committee, emphasized Buttrick, has always favored "student autonomy;" and Buttrick himself is considered to have furthered integration by opening morning prayer meetings to Radcliffe students and by voting to accept women in the Divinity School...
...against him. A Friday night meeting of hard-shell Baptists-to which, in their own words, "Jews, Catholics and modernist Protestants" [and, of course, Negroes] had not been invited-drew perhaps 600 restless souls to hear North Little Rock's Rev. E. T. Burgess intone, as a final prayer: "Especially, dear Father, we pray for the man who sent troops to Arkansas and then went back to the golf course as if nothing had happened...
...next morning, 84 other Little Rock churches took part in the citywide prayer session suggested by Episcopal Bishop Robert Raymond Brown (TIME, Oct. 14). Some 7,000 citizens, a sizable Saturday morning turnout, prayed for a peaceful, lawful end to Little Rock's troubles. Said Mississippi-born Methodist Minister Aubrey Walton: "We know, our Heavenly Father, that we must share the blame for what has happened in our city. Forgive us for the influence we have not used, for the positions we should have taken but did not take...
WILLIAMSBURG, Va., Oct. 16--Queen Elizabeth II arrived to a royal welcome in the United States today and promptly bowed her head in a prayer for a "just and lasting peace...