Word: prays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...endowed us with great potential powers. We have neglected those powers and mistakenly waited for their Source to act for us. However, we are wholly dependent on ourselves. Ours is not to pray...
...office. His sure diplomacy at Mexico City was a long step from his early bourbon-drinking, poker-playing junketing, his wistful lurking on the fringes of Congress. He has a new confidence and a new formula: be natural. He likes his job and no longer asks anyone to pray...
Second-Class Citizens. All over the U.S., schoolteachers told Ben Fine that they were fed up with the way their communities made them live. They longed for the freedom to marry, smoke, drink, dress and pray when and as they pleased. Many felt like second-class citizens. Said one Nebraska teacher: "The only time I am asked to visit the home of any parent is when little Johnny is in trouble...
Every evening at 7, last week, the 1,810,076 members of the United Lutheran Church in America were asked to "pray . for the press." The prayer: that "all who gather and publish the news . . . may discharge their trust in the interest of godliness and good order...
...Community men" meditate much on the meaning of the Incarnation, which they feel obligates all Christians to minister to men's bodies as well as to their souls. This obligation carries through to the body politic. "It is wrong," says George MacLeod, "to pray only for 'Margaret suffering from tuberculosis,' if you know too well the noisome tenement in and by which the suffering began. If we work with Margaret in prayer, we must work with Margaret's father in the housing issues at the next election...