Word: prayerize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Second, my church and my community set themselves against my interpretation and they resisted integration. I talked about integration to people in my home, on the streets, and in prayer meetings in my church. Soon I was met by Christians with chilly silence, or a polite brushoff, or the warning that I was talking too much about the Negro question...
...parade of marital, emotional and mental problems . . . While these problems give the pastor an opportunity for a most personal ministry ... it should be recognized that such people frequently need a psychiatrist as well as a pastor . . . Without in any way attempting to minimize the power of the word, or prayer, or comfort that a pastor can bring ... it is obvious that the pastor alone cannot cope with all the problems of a big city congregation, and most pastors will readily agree...
...appeal. The crowd flowed out in front of the courthouse, surrounding King and his wife. A gold-toothed woman shouted: "We ain't going to ride the buses now for sure." A middle-aged woman told King: "My heart and my pocketbook are at your disposal." A mass prayer meeting was set for that night. A man yelled to the crowd: "You going to be there?" Chorused the crowd: "Yes!" The same man shouted: "You going to ride the buses?" Roared the crowd: "No!" The old courthouse, which had never heard such sounds from Negroes, would never...
...Holy Thursday of 1956, the Garden of Gethsemane glows with flowers beneath its ancient olive trees-the poppies and daisies, the groundsel, ranunculus, garlic and blue lupine that grew wild there when Jesus sweated blood in the agony of His prayer: "My Father, if it be possible, let this chalice pass from me." In the grotto nearby, where Judas betrayed his Master with a kiss, the murals from the Byzantine and Crusader periods have peeled away, and the air is still dank from the winter's rains...
...addition, the Massachusetts State Legislature will suspend work for an hour at noon today for the purpose of prayer...