Word: prayerize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three years ago, Sheen offered a prayer before the U.S. Congress which all Americans might take to heart: "Gentlemen . . . you ought to pray to God now as never before . . . You ought to pray that God, the sovereign King of nations, who once used Assyria as the rod and staff of His anger, will not now use Russia as the instrument of His justice for the liquidation of a Western World that has forgotten God . . . You ought to pray that our beloved country . . . may one day fulfill its glorious and certain vocation of being the secondary cause by which God will...
...plans no rest. He envisions still another project: a monumental history of the Jewish people from earliest times. This project, says Neuman, would take at least 20 years and be beyond his life span. "It is not thy duty," says the grey-haired scholar, quoting from the Jewish prayer book,* "to complete the work, but neither art thou free to desist from...
...language of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer as musty as it is memorable? A good many Englishmen seem to think so, to judge by the hot salvos of mail they have been dropping on the old (1549) masterpiece in the pages of London's Daily Telegraph. Squadron Leader P.J.D. Wood of the R.A.F. touched off the controversy after the death of George VI. While intoning the commemorative service for the late sovereign, wrote Commander Wood to the Telegraph, he had snatched a quick look round at the faces of his airmen, and found them a perfect blank. Wood...
...volleys of their own. Wrote one: "It would be very interesting indeed to know how the Rev. J. B. Phillips would suggest that Shakespeare should be 'translated' for the poor moderns who cannot possibly understand his archaic English." Said another: "Our translations of the Bible and our Prayer Book are written in our own language at its best period. What is all the pother about...
...week's end both sides were resting on their pens. Whether or not the Anglican Book of Common Prayer should be revised, all could agree that it was some time since it had been. Even the oldest communicant couldn't quite remember when. And for a good reason...