Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hymn should be a prayer set to music," says the Rev. Gerrit Barnes of Denver's Christ Church (Episcopal). "It should follow the idea of 'make a joyful noise unto the Lord.''' Ideas change about what is joyful noise, and what is just plain noise. Church musicians and their pastors are quietly revising the nation's taste in congregational song, and in the process are consigning a surprising number of quaint old favorites to oblivion, while searching oblivion for revivable classics. Dr. Charles C. Hirt, professor of church music at the University of Southern...
...wounded by a poisoned arrow, and, unable to bear the pain, he longed for death. He prayed that he might pass on his immortality to Prometheus, and that his death would be accepted in atonement for Prometheus's sin, the presentation of divine fire to man. Zeus answered his prayer, and placed Chiron among the stars as the constellation Sagittarius, the Archer...
...point of view, abound. Murillo's Christ After the Flagellation (overleaf) has a tragic, mystic quality. On the other hand, Zurbaran's St. Francis Praying, painted around 1650, is a surprisingly sophisticated example of religious preoccupation; St. Francis seems almost like a zealot interrupted at prayer and, like many old Spanish works, the picture looks surprisingly modern...
...Appeared with Evangelist Billy Graham, Vice President Johnson, and House Speaker John McCormack before more than 1,000 persons at the annual presidential prayer breakfast. The President recalled some Episcopal eloquence by "my fellow Bostonian," the Rev. Phillips Brooks (1835-93): "Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks...
...failing to administer to the Negro, the workingman, the drug addict, the divorcee-to nearly everyone, in fact, but the prosperous middle classes. Too often, says Stanford's Brown, paraphrasing the time-honored description of the Anglican Church in Britain, U.S. Christianity "is simply the Republican Party at prayer...