Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mornings they went to the mountaintop to chop trees and work on their new Kirkridge Lodge, of modern design. Afternoons were spent discussing social problems and sharing "faith-building" experiences. In the evenings, after supper on long wooden tables, they met by the hearth for devotions and evening prayer, after which no body spoke until work time next...
...this Biblical injunction has caused violent dissension. Conservatives hold that a believer who accidentally tromps on a snake will be protected by the Lord. More radical brethren consider it "phenomenal doctrine." They catch and baptize snakes drape them over their necks and arms with only the paralyzing power of prayer for protection...
...bright dawn Zamperini said the Lord's Prayer and for half an hour, while Philips listened, delivered a eulogy of the young gunner, prayed again for his fellow Catholic and then gently, easily - so wasted was the body - pushed it over board. Zamperini and Philips floated on into the sixth week of their ordeal...
Sternly pleading a vigilant peace, an enduring remembrance of the miracles of comradeship and cooperation which war has taught, this beautiful film reveals the full meaning of its title only at the very end, when the commentator repeats Sir Francis Drake's prayer...
Then Prince Higashi-Kuni made pilgrimage to the famed Meiji and Yasukuni shrines. There he offered a Shinto prayer to Japan's fallen war heroes, those who "gave their lives to become the spirits which guard our Empire." There he pledged himself "to endure all hardships in safeguarding national polity . . . and reconstructing Japan...