Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jackass Age. Cotton Ed was a conscientious objector to the 20th Century. He walked out of the 1936 Democratic Convention in high dudgeon because a Negro preacher read a prayer. He was a drag-end isolationist. He was a believer in poll taxes; he was never heard to protest a Southern lynching; and he stood prepared to filibuster to the end against an anti-lynching bill. He decorated his speeches by "pings" at a spittoon ten feet away, or if there were no spittoons, he would spit on the Senate carpet...
Last week Doctor I. Q. was boning up on Old Testament history, philosophy, prayer-book history and comparative religion at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary in Evanston, Ill. The "wise man with the friendly smile and cash" was headed for the ministry. Within three years he expects to abandon his enviable $2,000-a-week radio job for a $40-a-week Episcopal rectorship in some small town in his native Kentucky...
After they have eaten a hearty break fast round a big oval table, some member opens the session with an extemporaneous prayer. Then the city officials open their pocket-size New Testaments. Being chiefly politicians and lawyers, they are naturally attracted to St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans. Explains Mayor Roger D. Lapham's administrative assistant, David Lewis: "We are taking up Romans' now because that Book is an exposition of the law of a Christian. There are some attorneys in the group and we decided to start there. It is a thorough going-over...
...love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cling to that which is good. Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another; not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord; rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer. . . . Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not. Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep. Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits...
...Decided not to distribute the medal issued annually on the Vigil of the Feast of SS. Peter and Paul (June 28) to commemorate some notable event of the past papal year. Reason: The medal approved by Pius XII several months ago showed the Pope standing in an attitude of prayer amid the ruins caused by the first U.S. bombing of Rome last July. The old medal will be melted down, a new design drawn. Rumored theme: the Pope depicted as the protector and savior of Rome...