Word: prayerize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Left intact a New Jersey law which requires the daily reading of at least five verses from the Old Testament in public schools, permits the recitation of the Lord's Prayer, and allows any pupil to walk out of either if he does not want to participate. The Court (by a 6-3 decision) held the New Jersey case raised no federal or constitutional question. Dissenting Justices: Douglas, Reed and Burton...
...spring of 1945, the Russians arrested Landowner von Thadden and sent him to Arctic Russia, with other German prisoners, for eight months. To help his fellow prisoners, he began to give short prayer services in the camp. Before long, nearly everyone was attending. Says Thadden: "Then & there I discovered that the modern young generation, whether they are pro-Nazis, or Communists, or "intellectuals, are all human beings with a great longing for something that will provide a background for their lives...
Besides preaching at other key points in town, Evangelist Graham held daily noontime prayer sessions in the Pentagon auditorium. The response he got there surprised him. "Never in my whole religious experience," said Billy, "have I seen such a hunger for religion as at the Pentagon...
...place he once called "the most sinful city" he had ever visited, Washington, D.C. has lent Evangelist Billy Graham a pretty respectful ear. By last week, at the end of a nine-week prayer "crusade" there, Billy had preached to audiences totaling 500,000 people.*Recorded conversions...
...biggest turnouts (more than 9,000 a night before the end of the crusade) were for the evening prayer meetings in the National Guard Armory. "And they were not just the ordinary people," Billy said last week. "As near as I can tell, we averaged between 25 and 40 Congressmen and about five Senators a night." Among Billy's greatest supporters were Tennessee's Percy Priest and Missouri's O. K. Armstrong, who ushered at meetings, New Hampshire's Senator Tobey ("the warmest-hearted friend I had"), and Senator Hoey and the rest of the representatives...