Word: prayerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bradys belong to the Church of God, a hill sect that relies on faith healing rather than medicine. On trial for involuntary manslaughter with Joe Brady went three neighboring hill couples-the Ashley Lunas, Charlie Grays and Lowell McGehees. Prayer had not saved their children; a doctor might have. None of the seven would hire a lawyer. Said Ashley Luna: "Some of us will be jailed, some of us will be penitentiarized, some of us will be beheaded, but the will of God will prevail...
...daily routine of the brothers is strictly regimented. A Latin call awakes them at 5:40, but they are human enough to spend 45 minutes--presumably in bed--before they appear in chapel for the first office. Most of their day is given up to prayer, studies, spiritual reading, and outside calls. Every novice is required to take a weekly one-hour walk in company of a father to whom he is assigned...
SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON;--The answer to the prayer of every poor sinner who ever said. "Oh, let's get the hell out of this mess!" is a south sea island. Be it the Napoleonic cra when the book "Swiss Family Robinson" was written or the Hitlerian cra when Hollywood put it on celluloid, the story still holds good. True, it creaks in sports. The more lurid parts of Wyss's work had to be soft-pedaled and even then the final script was bogged down with verbiage as thick as the tropical vegetation. But such vivid scenes as the hurricane...
...lanterns hang from the cottages of Italy and Switzerland to remind the passers to pray for peace. This is a war measure that has obtained for centuries. . . . When nightly I come to my prayer for peace I never know how to frame...
Roman Catholic position: Such a gadget is harmless but not efficacious, in the same class as a prayer ring (which has ten notches so that the wearer may count his prayers). Indulgences (i.e., remissions of temporal punishment for repented sin) will not be granted for any number of push-buttoned prayers...