Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stable. After the choir filed in, 28 strong, their director, the Rev. Clifford A. Underwood, said a prayer: "We thank thee, O God, for so many blessings. We thank thee for the fruits of our gardens. But we thank thee most for the gift of Bethlehem, the gift of thine only begotten Son." In thg brief silence which followed, the sound of a distant airplane came faintly to the church. Then the men, women and girls of the choir opened their books and began to sing...
...doubts that his administration will "set the world on fire." Said he: "One of the dangers of all religious and social movements is the urgency of the perfectionists-the men who want to reach their goal immediately . . . The task facing the churches can only be accomplished if the thought, prayer and service of the churches are pooled in a large way . . . The most important thing is not church union but Christian unity...
...Harvard's first woman faculty member, Dr. Helen Maud Cam, became the first female to attend chapel services since public prayer was instituted at the university 312 years ago. This left Harvard only one male sanctuary-the press box at Soldiers Field...
...father, a fiery Methodist known as "Holy Joe," used to tell him: "When I take a thing to prayer, I always succeed." Son J. Arthur Rank has never forgotten what his father taught. When Rank first went into moviemaking in 1934, it was to make religious shorts. More recently, Britain's Cinemogul Rank has made his name world-famed with productions of another sort, such as Henry V, Brief Encounter, Hamlet. But he has never stopped making religious shorts...
Having been asked for advice, the ministers spoke frankly. Said Missionary E. Stanley Jones: "A doctor must train . . . spiritually as well as physically . . . Fifty percent of sick persons need prayer more than pills, aspiration more than aspirin, meditation more than medication...