Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...organ made when the foot first touched the bellows." Jess knew that his daughter Mattie was settling down to a musical session in the attic. Just as she launched into The Old Musician and His Harp, Jess cried aloud: "Friends, let us lift our hearts to God in prayer...
...fifth time, Jess swept into the New Testament. When Mattie pulled out the fortissimo stop, Jess's resonant pleading fairly shook the studding. "Friend," said Amos Pease, when at last the agony was over, "thee's been an instrument of the Lord this night. . . . Thy prayer carried us so near to heaven's gates that now and again I thought I could hear . . . the sound of heavenly harps." "Amen, Brother. Amen to that!" cried the rest of the committee, tottering exhausted through the door...
Leave Him to Heaven. In Oklahoma City, Bible-reading Isaac Coker, annoyed by the "rantin' religion" of a next-door prayer meeting, blazed away with a shotgun, wounded the preacher, who refused to prosecute Coker, since "the Lord will punish...
...ever, was the time for the rain makers. In the kraals the witch doctors prepared to use their muti (medicine). In Parliament Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts proclaimed a national day of prayer for rain. On the advice of their witch doctors, Basutos climbed their peaks with calabashes of Kaffir beer to propitiate their ancestors. But no rain came...
...neighboring Drakensberg thousands of Bantu, against the advice of their doctors, climbed 12,000 feet to beseech the Christian God for rain. It rained-a little. Then, on Smuts's day of prayer the white folk prayed in their churches. Almost at once, the rains came. They have been coming ever since...