Word: prays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Indiana issued a call-to-prayer on the eve of the Houston convention. That call said: "Get Down On Your Knees And Pray...
...whiskey, stout, champagne, were in idle profusion-all dedicated to the embarrassment of Aimee Semple McPherson, notorious evangelist who inadvertently had chosen university election time to speak to the studentry. Pitifully, persistently she tried to make herself heard above the heckling din. Only when she said, "Let us pray," did the studentry bow their heads in real or simulated reverence. When the prayer came to Amen the divine interlude ended: smoke was blown in the McPherson's face and to it was offered many a beer...
...they'd give us a rest in the discussions about Mrs. Willebrandt," said Mr. Burton. Said Mr. Baker: "When Mrs. Firebrand from Washington gets into a ministers' meeting and flails the energies of the pastors to go into the pulpits . . . I don't wonder that Congressman Burton and others pray to be delivered from...
Many a Presbyterian, profoundly aware of the existence of Rev. Henry Sloane Coffin among their fellowship, waited his word. Would his silence have the effect of committing the entire church "to work, and pray and vote for . . . Hoover." Last week Dr. Coffin wrote a letter to the New York Times. Brief, compact, it follows...
...they are not to keep silent, what are they to do? "The plain duty of every churchman is to work and pray and vote for the election of Herbert Hoover...