Word: prayerize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fifty-two ago, the guiding lights of Phillips Brooks House were advised to "stop talking Christianity and start practicing it." Since then, settlement work and student services have dislodged prayer meetings and Bible classes from the core of the Brooks House program. Although religious groups get meeting rooms and grants of money from PBH, they are independent and secondary in the entire Brooks House scheme. In hammering the social Gospel ideas of Bishop Phillips Brooks into a kind of social service program every religion preaches, PBH has succeeded in stripping itself of denominational character...
Explaining Conan't desire, as expressed in this article, for a third group of radicals, Flynn said the "answer to his prayer" would be a state "based on the political ideas of Jefferson and his prophets, Emerson, Thoreau and Whitman--I do not think there was too much agreement between Jefferson, Whitman and Thoreau. He would be respectful but not enthusiastic about Marx, Engels and Lenin...
Father Anthony J. Lauck, 43, presented a statue as simple and serene as Painter Lebrun's canvas was noisy. It was a semi-abstract study of a Monk at Prayer, showing hands clasped and face upraised, chiseled out of rough grey limestone. Sculptor Lauck took several months to turn it out; his other duties keep him from working full-time with hammer & chisel. But he has been chipping away, off & on, for 20 years, and he has studied with such famed sculptors as Ivan Mestrovic and Carl Milles. Today Lauck exhibits his peaceful religious statues from time to time...
...Pendleton employees, 65% of whom are Adventists, that they are now working for the church. Then he made a formal transfer to the Rev. W. H. Branson, the Adventists' world president, who had flown out from Washington, D.C. to accept the gift. Elder Branson said a short prayer: "We know, dear Lord, that all the silver and the gold is thine; we pray to thee to bless this plant, the people who work in it, the brother and sister who have given it back to thee, and to bless its profits. Amen...
...Mysticism is not for the masses but for an elite. To lose sight of this is to divert Christians from what may well be, for the majority of them, their most urgent business. Their call is not to take flight from society but to revivify it ... For this undertaking prayer will be the inspiration; but prayer, as St. Thomas Aquinas pointed out at length, is no substitute for energies employed in direct relation to the needs of the hour. In our present predicament no religious propaganda could be more in harmony with the Marxist book than an appeal to Christians...