Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three weeks," cried Pieck, "you have lost all the popularity you have gained in the last three years." And the children heard the sound, and feared it, for it stirred memories of bombings not so long ago-children like twelve-year-old Max, who each night recited an English prayer he had learned in his German school...
Last week a call was issued to U.S. churches: on Sunday Aug. 22 they were asked to ring their bells once each hour from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. The bells will summon Christians to prayer. On that day, in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, 450 Christian men & women delegates will begin a meeting that has been called the most significant occasion since the Protestant Reformation-the first Assembly of the World Council of Churches...
...book is by no means as rigid or binding as the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer or the Roman Catholic missal; liturgical alternatives are offered for almost every occasion. But even so, the General Council's Seminar on Worship, which spent ten years preparing the new pew-book, "expects" (there is still no way of forcing a Congregationalist congregation to conform) that parsons will put it to good...
...acres of trees, lawns and gardens strangely remote from the round of jails, beatings and death which was the regular portion of early Quakers. The testimonies of Pendle Hill's morning meetings for worship might have seemed somewhat prosy to a man whose fierce fervor of inward prayer is reported to have shaken the walls of the silent 17th Century meetings...
...Saying one's prayers," she holds, is a term to be avoided; prayers too easily lapse into a quick bedtime formality like brushing the teeth. Parents should rather encourage spontaneous prayer. She cites one she once heard: "Oh thank you, God, for our muddy garden and my Sister Baby and the lovely spiders. I want to be a Good Big Girl. Amen...