Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anniversary of shame, and the Senate Chaplain, Rev. Frederick Brown Harris, D.D., offered a special prayer for tolerance...
...measured, prayerful words, the President proclaimed Jan. 1, 1944 a "day of prayer to give thanks to Almighty God for His constant providence over us in every hour of national peace and national peril.. . . May we humbly seek strength and guidance for the problems of widening warfare and for the responsibilities of increasing victory...
...work has been well done." Deacon Charles Wilson also started a Sunday School for Chinese children. Years later, in Bridgeport, Conn., he conducted a Baptist Young Men's Forum. Even now, in Washington, WPB Vice Chairman Charles Wilson often stops in at church for a moment's prayer on his way to the office...
...Service Men's Christian League represents Protestantism, but no one Church. Its 1,012 units, with 100,000 members, organized wherever U.S. troops are stationed, provide a substitute for home-town church youth groups. Under the chaplain's guidance, League members hold Bible classes, prayer meetings, discussion groups, debate many a religious and postwar problem...
When Confucius was sick and his disciples wanted to pray for him, the man by whose teachings 450 million Chinese live today said genially that it was unnecessary. "In this, the truest sense, he could say that his whole life had been a prayer," says Dr. Lionel Giles, most eloquent of Chinese scholars. "Therein lay his greatness...