Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...assure Mr. Oliver W. Gilpin of Kittanning, Pa. [TIME, June 23] that the Episcopal Church has not gone anti-Roosevelt in the present "unlimited emergency"-in regard to the different prayer now being used quite widely for the President. It is merely that the new prayer for the President (which was inserted as an alternate in the revision of the Prayer Book in 1929) seems to have commended itself rather widely to the clergy and people of the Episcopal Church...
...myself, I like the new prayer, principally because I think it is more democratic than the old one. The new one prays for the people of the nation as well as for the President...
...seems appropriate at this time of peril that we return to the only prayer that was used for every President from George Washington to Calvin Coolidge...
...Excerpt from the "bless" prayer: "O Lord, our heavenly Father, the high and mighty Ruler of the universe, who dost from thy throne behold all the dwellers upon earth; Most heartily we beseech thee, with thy favor to behold and bless thy servant THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, and all others in authority...
Excerpt from the "wisdom" prayer: "O Lord our Governor, whose glory is in all the world; We commend this nation to thy merciful care, that being guided by thy Providence, we may dwell secure in thy peace. Grant to THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, and to all in authority, wisdom and strength to know and to do thy will...