Word: prays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Throughout the U.S., Roman Catholics celebrated May Day for the second year by gathering in churches to pray for the conversion of the U.S.S.R. Typical prayer (repeated five times): "Saviour of the World, save Russia...
Most Kansas Citians, not just "some," hope and pray that we'll have another daily paper here before very long...
Their prayer started traditionally enough: "We come with fragrant flowers and sweet wine to pray. . . ." Then came the political snapper: "No matter how American imperialism exerts itself, the children of the Yellow Emperor will unite under the Chinese Communist Party and . . . thoroughly exterminate all of Chiang Kai-shek's gangsters." They wished Huang Ti's posterity "10,000 years, 1,000 autumns...
...most popular preacher in Paris is Jesuit Father Michel Riquet. "The French are better Christians today than they used to be," says Père Riquet. "There are more of them; they pray more and go more often to church...
Faith Undebased. The strongest element in Beatrice's mixed character was her piety. She gave allegiance to no church ("Jesus," she said, "seems to me . . . perhaps, not the most perfect embodiment of the ideal of faith"), but she loved nothing better than to pray in St. Paul's Cathedral. She, who insisted that all earthly things stand up to scientific test, abhorred the intellectual theologians who sought to "prove" the existence of God-an approach which she believed served only to "debase the purpose" of faith. Sidney never prayed; but Beatrice was certain that he, too, believed...