Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other organization. It maintains that evangelism can reach into depths of degradation which psychiatry cannot touch. Says Captain Tom Crocker, onetime alcoholic and drug addict who is now in command of the army's famed Harbor Light corps in Chicago: "Overcoming drunkenness is a matter of prayer from beginning to end. God is the deciding factor. The job is too overwhelming to be done by human means alone." With evangelism goes fellowship. Misery can find company in decent surroundings along Skid...
...quiet now in the church. Must be the prayer. What was it his grandfather used to read one December night a year? "And it came to pass that in those days there went forth . . ." Funny to remember that when he hadn't picked up a Bible in ten years. Luke II, wasn...
...time of prosperity, fill our hearts with thankfulness . . ." (Book of Common Prayer...
...thin crowd, a summer-night buzz of fans interrupted by an occasional drink being shaken at the small bar. It is dark in here . . . Fans in the prayer for cool salvation. From the next booth drifts the conversation of radio executives; from the green salad comes the little taste of garlic. Behind me . . . a young intellectual is trying to persuade a girl to come live with him and he his love. She has her guard up, but he is extremely reasonable, careful not to overplay his hand . . . In the mirror over the bar I can see the ritual...
...campaign, backed by Lutherans, Episcopalians, and many Jews who feel that Christmas should be restored to its religious meaning, will stress the remaining weeks of Advent as a time of preparation by penance and prayer. Said Mrs. Fred J. Vollmar, chairman of the St. Boniface Archconfraternity, last week: "We must become more Christ-minded about Christmas . . . We have given prominence to a worldly Santa Claus-who has no resemblance to St. Nicholas-and have entirely left out the thought of the birth of the Savior...