Word: prayerize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Club and Choral Society. It seems remarkable that in so short a time they could become so respensive to Mr. Munch's direction. And even in the last performance, their tone quality remained pure and clear. The excellence of their training was particularly well shown in the a capella prayer "Quaerens...
...church, a school, furniture work shops, a lighting plant and a wharf. When the Japanese blitzed his mission during World War II, his devoted people carried him off to the mountains, reverently hauled along his old typewriter so he could finish his translation of the Book of Common Prayer into the native (Wedauan) tongue...
Judge Kaufman, one of the youngest (40) federal judges, had had only ten hours' sleep in a week, had spent long hours in prayer at his synagogue. Tearful Mrs. Tessie Greenglass, mother of convicted spies Ethel Rosenberg and David Greenglass, had visited him to plead for her children. "I have deliberated for hours, days and nights," said Judge Kaufman. "I have searched my conscience to find some reason for mercy. I am convinced, however, that I would violate the solemn and sacred trust that the people of this land have placed in my hands were I to show leniency...
Religious behavior, says Psychiatrist Menninger, can be divided into "behavior with reference to fellow-creatures" (morals), and "behavior with reference to God" (worship). Does Dr. Menninger believe in prayer? "I could not make a conscientious answer," he replies, "without stipulating that the question be resolved into various parts...
...were asked, 'Do you believe that prayer exists?' I could answer easily, 'Yes' -for me, and for many others. If I were then asked, 'Do you believe that the prayers of men are heard by God?' I could answer in the affirmative because my conception of God is such that everything reaches Him. If I were asked, 'Do you believe that God answers prayers?' . . . my affirmative answer would not necessarily mean that I agree with what is in the mind of the questioner...