Word: prayerize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...abode of Christ these wagons? . . . Often a thousand persons are attached to the chariots-so great is the difficulty-yet they march in such silence that not a murmur is heard . . . When they halt on the road, nothing is heard but the confession of sins, and pure and suppliant prayer...
...Power of Prayer. With the help of a radio encyclopedia and a few friends, Hemingway set up a one-tube transmitter that ran on a storage battery. The antenna was made of bicycle rims, and even a dog walking under it would joggle the station off frequency, but he kept it going two or three hours a day, six days a week with scripture, organ music, singing, and talks to shut-ins. Hemingway called his station WMPC after Lapeer's Methodist Protestant Church (which later became the Liberty Street Gospel Church...
Last week, when people swarmed to Liberty Street to celebrate the 25th anniversary of WMPC, well-loved Frank Hemingway was not on hand. Ill of diabetes, and the after-effects of a stroke last year, worn down by nightly vigils of prayer for his ailing wife, the 57-year-old minister collapsed two hours before the ceremony, and had to listen in like one of his own shut-ins while his friends sang old hymns such as Bringing in the Sheaves, prayed God to "bless our pastor and his wife and lift them tonight...
...John Shea--the man who nabbed the library's biggest book thief--doesn't depend on prayer to uncover missing or stolen books. As a matter of fact, he relies mainly on his 46 years of experience working in University libraries. He started in the old Gore Library as a coat checker, moved into the newly-built Widener as a book checker, became shortly thereafter Superintendent of the stacks in Widener, and in 1948 was appointed an officer of the University with the title of "The Superintendent of the Stack and the Harry Elkins Memorial Building of the Harvard College...
...Gently but firmly, Gallery instilled in them a sense of duty, and of discipline. He taught them that every sailor carries the responsibility for other men's lives-even the captain of the head (who cleaned the toilets)-and he told them yarns to prove it. There was prayer every morning, and not just before battle. "It was poor psychology, as well as bad theology, to wait until we were looking down the enemy gun barrels before starting to pray...