Word: prayerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Does prayer bring tangible results? Last week the British Court of Appeals doubted it. A priory of Carmelite nuns had claimed they were entitled to accept a $20,000 trust fund left to them as a "charitable institution." Their prayers benefited mankind, the nuns argued. Therefore, they were dispensing charity...
...Prayer is the subject of the Cloud-the wordless, upthrusting prayer of the soul seeking direct experience of God. Such a soul, says the author, must approach God with a "meek, longing love" and a "naked intent unto God alone, and not to anything that He has made." Meditation, even upon the goodness of God, is distracting; he who would follow this path must put aside all thoughts and images and concentrate his whole being on a yearning hunger for God. "The first time that you try you will find only a darkness, as though it were a Cloud...
...word, the better it harmonizes with the work of the spirit. Such a word is this word GOD or this word LOVE. . . . [A single word] pierces the ears of the Almighty God, quicker than any long psalter unmindfully mumbled in the teeth. Therefore it is written that the short prayer pierces heaven...
...With prayer, with humility of spirit tempering his temerity of mind, man has always sought to define the nature of the most important fact in his experience: God. To this unending effort to know God, man is driven by the noblest of his intuitions-the sense of his mortal incompleteness-and by hard experience. For man's occasional lapses from God-seeking inevitably result in intolerable shallowness of thought combined with incalculable mischief in action...
...Sydney, Australia, New South Wales Supreme Court Justice Ernest D. Roper granted an injunction to 23 outraged parishioners of the Anglican Bishop of Bathurst, Rt. Rev. Arnold Lomas Wylde, restraining the bishop from introducing "Romish" practices into his diocese. Departing from the Book of Common Prayer, Bishop Wylde was accused of introducing into the Communion service such customs as ringing the Sanctus bell and making the sign of the cross. Commented Justice Roper: "It is quite deplorable that members of a Christian community have been unable to settle differences without recourse to litigation...