Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brigham Young founded the Salt Lake Theatre (where Maude Adams first appeared on stage, age 9 months) as one of his first creations; organized the still flourishing Young Men's & Women's Mutual Improvement Associations, whose sessions ended in dances, which were (and are) always opened with prayer. Pioneer Young wanted young Mormons to have their fun in church, not taverns...
When they got south of Sardinia, the prayer of Sir James's men was answered. Their air scouts reported that two Italian battleships (of the three Italy had left in commission), surrounded by numerous cruisers and destroyers, were at sea 75 miles northeast of the advance British cruiser force, which immediately turned that way to give battle. After two hours' steaming they sighted four Italian cruisers and closed in, firing. The Italians turned tail, belching smoke. After a half-hour's chase, the British cruisers sighted the Italian battleships, one of the Cavour...
...college, La Grange (Female) College, La Grange, Ga., which celebrated its centenary in 1936, the walls of the old Prayer Hallare lined with pictures of long-dead maidens in the prescribed uniforms they wore during the war. For those four tragic years, and long afterward, they dressed in exact grey Confederate uniforms, with braided basques, bell skirts instead of breeches, a jaunty forage cap perched upon their curls. . . . But make no mistake; these ingenues' botany textbooks were written in Latin...
...must an omnipotent God be cajoled by prayer?" someone else shouted. "Prayer is the duty owed by creature to Creator," came the answer. The priests had to stand up and answer atheistic, Mohammedan, Presbyterian, and Jehovah's Witness heckling...
...quickly learned which sisters were the best cooks), he would hitch up his horse and go to one of the country charges for an afternoon sermon, returning to town for an evening service. During the week he had sermons to write, babies to baptize, sickbeds to sit beside, midweek prayer meetings to lead, couples to marry, people to bury, studying to do, men's and women's organizations to direct, young people to guide, and a business to keep going in three churches. He was on call 24 hours...