Word: prayerize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Power of Prayer. To the World Council of Churches Assembly at Evanston, Ill. (see RELIGION), President Eisenhower said: "Let me speak for a moment not as this nation's Chief Executive, whose days are largely devoted to the efforts of government to secure peace, but as a private citizen, a single member of one of the constituent bodies of this council of churches. But I must speak also, inescapably, as one who has seen at first hand the almost miraculous battle field achievements of men bound together by mighty devotion to a worthy cause. A thousand experiences have convinced...
...with your brethren of other faiths, can lead the way. The goal should be nothing short of inviting every single person in every single country in the world who believes in the power of a Supreme Being to join in a mighty, simultaneous, intense act of faith ... a personal prayer [for] a just and lasting peace. If this mass dedication launched an unending campaign for peace, supported by prayer, I am certain wondrous results would ensue...
...Western Paradise, official residence of the 16-year-old Panchen Lama, whom 3,000,000 Tibetans accept as a spiritual reincarnation of the Buddha of Boundless Light. Reports reaching West Bengal last week reported that the palace collapsed, crushing scores of Buddhist monks in a welter of prayer wheels, holy vessels and ornamented battlements. One Red Chinese barracks, teeming with the Panchen Lama's Communist "bodyguards," reportedly fell apart. Estimated death toll: between...
...Miracle seekers. Example: a Negro woman with cancer of the breast who covered herself with a "prayer cloth" each day for six months before seeking medical care. Now near death, she "believes that the failure of the prayer cloth was due to her sins." 2) The uninformed. One businessman did not know the difference between an M.D. and other self-styled "doctors...
...Teddy carried daughter Alice "pig-a-back" every morning, and she took to addressing him somewhat irreverently as "Now, pig!" Little Kermit had fun "turning somersaults on the manure heap." Ethel and Archie invented a game of tag involving pokes and crossed fingers during the pastor's long prayer on Sunday mornings. Teddy played bear with Baby Quentin and assorted small fry, pouncing on them with such energy "that he tore all the gathers out of [one little girl's] frock and both buttonholes out of her petticoat." When Teddy became too violently playful, wife Edith, no "Patient...