Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sick youth gave no sign that he had heard. His eyes were closed and he breathed with difficulty. The chaplain began the Lord's Prayer: 'Our Father, who art in heaven. . . .' Behind him the amputees took up the prayer . . . but the dying boy seemed not to have heard. He still fought for breath...
...fevered lips parted and sounds came from them. They did not sound like words, but the young marine had caught the thread of prayer. Thickly he followed the passage: 'Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for Thou art with...
...General got his prayer; it was printed on thousands of small cards with Patton's Christmas greeting on the reverse side. On the fifth day of rain and Rundstedt it was distributed to the troops. On the sixth day the sun shone, and the Third proceeded to its warlike harvest...
...religious forces were using up-to-date techniques to win public support. The Federal Council of Churches, the Synagogue Council of America and other groups endorsed Dumbarton Oaks Week (April 16-22) and called for nationwide Days of Prayer on Sunday, April 22 and the opening day of the conference (April 25). To keep delegates reminded of their watchfulness, the churches will light the huge (103 ft.) cross atop San Francisco's Mt. Davidson every night for at least the first week of the conference, will keep prominent churchmen in the galleries as conference observers, will fill the exhibit...
Reported Missing. The Rev. William T. Cummings, 42, cool, slender Army chaplain credited with minting the phrase, "There are no atheists in foxholes," hero of a 1942 Bataan hospital bombing during which he calmed patients with prayer despite his own shrapnel-broken arm; in the sinking of a Japanese prison ship by a U.S. submarine last December...