Word: prays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clerical delegates hoped for a sedate session, but occasionally broke up into opinionated wrangles. An attempt to railroad through a stiff fundamentalist resolution caused the noisiest row. The resolution was pocketed in committee. Prohibition was approved, theatres damned. At one session the 2,000 delegates paused to pray that "peace and brotherhood be restored to England...
...pray that those with whom the responsibility rests in our social and industrial life may under the guidance of the holy spirit of God take a large, public minded view of our difficulties...
...imagine the horrors that have befallen our Church. It has been a very sad thing. . . . Father Victor Fabre was wounded in the neck. For a week he was in prison, then in a hole with pigs on a ship. . . . There are good people in Mexico, holy and devout. They pray for the intervention of your government. . . . But I am too old; I have spent my life. . . . What is there left for me? I will retire into the convent in Barcelona. It has been a very sad thing...
...There arose Asa, the Scribe, and went unto Belcher, the Ruler, and said, behold our Butter stinketh, and we cannot eat thereof; now give us we pray thee Butter that stinketh...
...mass to the best and most beautiful church in all the world. Go to the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. When you enter that great house of prayer, then pray that the kingdom of God will be established there...