Word: prays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...virtue on the devout but not wasting a drop, grew tired. Thousands of grim, black-clad peasants who had been living on potatoes and pickles, hundreds of gayly costumed villagers, a few colonels in uniform, and counts in Bond Street tweeds, were flocking to Poland's holiest shrine to pray to Regina Regni Poloniae, the "Black Madonna" with the sabre cuts in her cheek. Their monotonously repeated prayer: "Theotokos, Mother of God, thanks to thee the wheat is in. But let it not be wasted; let there...
...will tickle the drowsy with a rod tipped by a rabbit's foot, the precentor line out the psalms and lead the singing with a pitch pipe. The sermon will be "The Doleful State of the Damned," which Samuel Moody first preached on August 21, 1710. He will pray that Queen Anne's reign continue happy and glorious, "that this place and all other places be not bothered by Indians during the coming week...
Soon there was more work for the Chief Clerk. A Madison Baptist and an Italian Methodist canceled their dates to pray for the Senate. A Lutheran, Rev. Morris Wee, instead of praying when his turn came, ambiguously read a psalm: Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful...
Last week, after the N. N. B. A. convention adjourned, Major Wright went to the White Rock Baptist Church in West Philadelphia, but not to pray. There, in place of the traditional banquet, the delegates joined him for an old-fashioned ice cream social...
...think our white father in Washington needs divine guidance. Won't you pray that our father in Washington will have his mind changed...