Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prayer. United by a common menace, Britons of all faiths joined in an Empire Sunday of Prayer (see p. 48). Accompanied by Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands, King George and Queen Elizabeth attended services at Westminster Abbey to hear the Archbishop of Canterbury assure them that "it cannot be the will of God that a rule of brute force . . . should prevail on the earth." Catholic Cardinal Hinsley's more vitriolic sermon at Westminster Cathedral, proclaiming that "there cannot be peace until by God's aid this hideous system [Hitlerism] vanishes from the world," was interrupted by a middle...
...entire present administration as quickly as possible. Subtle suggestions of a need for "national unity" in the "crisis of civilization," which are now being employed in an apparent attempt to present America with a third term fait accompli, must be rejected. And in the meantime, those whose daily prayer it is that the war hysteria will not grow to more alarming proportions, will rejoice that a man of demonstrated ability and extraordinary political courage has ranged the guns of his oratory on the side of a calm, intelligent, logical analysis of the world situation...
...Articles. "The articles should be drummed out of the Prayer Book with all possible ignominy...
Since Archbishop Cranmer drew up the first Anglican Book of Common Prayer in 1548, revisions and proposals for revision have cropped up regularly. Still more thoroughgoing, Agnostic Shaw proposed to throw out nearly everything. Some of his proposals...
...Fields is the Rev. Pat McCormick, who edits an unparochial magazine, St. Martin's Review, with a worldwide circulation of over 10,000, a host of famed contributors. In the April Review George Bernard Shaw had his heretical say about the Church of England's Prayer Book...