Word: prayerize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prayer is absolutely necessary for a good life," Dr. Nels F. S. Ferre, Professor of Philosophical Theology at Vanderbilt, said last night...
...batch of refugees which included a two-year-old, half-Filipino boy who was "smoking (and inhaling) a cigar between gulps of his dinner which he was receiving at his mother's breast"; of how the Tautog, with Mohammedan VIPs aboard, swung its nose toward Mecca at prayer time, three times a day; of how Captain John P. Cromwell, entrusted with top-secret information, went down with the scuttled Sculpin rather than risk capture...
Then, after a brief interval of personal prayer between David and Jesus, thirty people came forward to be "saved." They were herded into an adjoining room for consultations. David retired to store up power for the healing period which was soon to follow, and his father took the stage. An easy two hundred pounds, Mr. Walker followed his son's pattern in dress--his tie was a mass of swirling purples. His speech was unusual however...
...this, the woman rose out of her chair and walked thirty feet to an empty seat. The audience moaned in amazement; a man behind me cried out "Jesus, Jesus" for the next ten minutes. Less serious cases went through the line in a hurry, David mumbled a short prayer and in thirty seconds they had had it. A deaf woman got the full treatment, however--after five minutes of incantation she was able to repeat Mommy and Daddy then promptly broke into hysterics. Little David withdrew silently and the crowd filed out down the stairs...
...This does not mean that it is necessarily mobilizing for war, much less for the unconditional surrender of the last Communist. The complete extirpation of Communism is a proper object of prayer, but hardly of international policy. The U.S. can readily accept what might be called "conditional coexistence" with Communist governments. The general proviso is that the Communist governments shall not be able to lash out on a campaign of world conquest. Particular conditions would include 1) international inspection and control of atomic arms, 2) dismantling of police and slave states...