Word: prayerize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problem becomes especially sharp, Steere argues, when Protestants undertake to cultivate a devotional life-"whether it is the framing of a liturgy for corporate worship, or a set of retreat exercises, or instructions for private prayer." To the free church congregations, for whom sacramentalism or the priest's role is not central, old liturgical molds are as irrelevant as the "Gothic church, which was built to focus all upon the choir and ultimately upon the dramatic stage of the Mass table, where Christ is believed to be literally materialized and made present. But if we admit this irrelevancy...
...When he shows as seeking quarter, with paws like hands in prayer, That is the time of peril-the time of the Truce of the Bear!" Over and over the story, ending as he began:-"There is no truce with Adam-zad, the Bear that looks like...