Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Time-Honored Prayer...
...have attended services at many Episcopal churches, particularly in New York and Pittsburgh. At every service, the rector has made use of the prayer to give the President "wisdom" instead of the time-honored prayer to "behold and bless thy servant the President of the United States" which was part of the morning service from 1789 until the revision of the prayer book in 1929, when as an alternative the "wisdom" prayer was added...
...several years I have carried a $5 bill to be laid upon the collection plate at any service where the time-honored "bless" prayer was used. It was only last Sunday at our local church that I parted with my bill. Our new rector told me afterwards that it had not been a mistake but intentional...
...accordance with an ancient custom symbolizing the historic ties between Harvard and Middlesex county, the High Sheriff, Mr. McEiroy, called the morning exercises in Sever Quadrangle to order, striking the paltform thrice with his scabbard. He announced "The Meeting will come to order." Dean Sperry then offered prayer, and the University choir, directed by G. Wallace Woodworth, sang...
...program will include a Dutch Folk Song, "Prayer of Thanksgiving"; Josquin des Pres, "O Domine Jesu Christi"; Verdi, opening scene from "Otello"; Scottish Folk Song, "Bonnic Dundee"; American Folk Song, arranged by Edward B. Lawton, "Casey Jones"; and Sullivan, four choruses from "Patience...