Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such doleful hand wringing left many churchmen aghast, and at the conference's end, delegates approved a well-meant "Appeal to the Conscience of the American People," which called for a reign of justice, love, courage and prayer in which "voting rights and equal protection of the law will everywhere be enjoyed" and "the wounds of past injustices will not be used as excuses for new ones." The call to action was not binding on any of the religious groups represented...
...relative humidity of 50. Light glistened from the linoleum, polished that morning as it was every morning. Gridley noticed an empty group of shelves where the so-called "Chinese laundry" collection had been kept before its transfer to the Yenching--bale after bale of Tibetan prayer sheets gathered in silk wrappers with colored silk tabs. But Gridley was hunting for the Anastasia papers, the documents pertaining to a glamorous heir to the throne of the Czars. Passing through the Theater section with its two million playbills, he unlocked another door and found himself in the Lincoln room. Death masks glared...
...choir sang softly, and members of the 1,200-strong congregation, each bearing a tightly folded scrap of paper, began to crowd the aisles. As each worshiper reached the altar, he dropped his twist of paper into one of a dozen burning urns; some knelt for a moment in prayer before returning to their pews...
Hargis, head of the rightist religio-political Christian Crusade, started the day's speeches with a prayer for the "misguided youth who picket this meeting today...
...pooled his efforts with Georgia Presbyterians, whose own Nacoochee Institute had burned the same year. Wisconsin-born President Anderson, whose doctorate is from Columbia University's Teachers College, has run the place since 1956, with a goal of character building and the faith ("not just a platitude") that "prayer changes things...