Word: prays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brooklyn, bearded patriarchs of the Brooklyn Hebrew Home marched the street in prayer shawls and skull caps, sounding the shofars. At St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan, and at many & many another church, the indifferent city warmed, and people came to pray, to weep, to share that world morning. In their various ways pagans and pastors acknowledged their presence "in the hour of death, and in the day of judgment...
...even been a success by Machiavellian standards, with the French, the Italians, and the Jugoslavs. I recognize the awful difficulties that confront our leaders, but I believe that for our policies to win friends and influence people, we need to preach better, and practice more, and to pray harder. I think a just peace can be made to satisfy both the spiritual and the material needs of our country...
...years and 150 days after Pearl Harbor, the Methodist Church endorsed the war. The Church told its 8,000,000 members that their prayers for the 1,000,000 Methodist servicemen and women, the 1,300 Methodist chaplains, were now authorized. Methodists may now also pray for victory. But it took a whole day's tense debate on the floor of the Church's quadrennial General Conference,* which met (for ten days) in Kansas City's municipal auditorium, to make Methodism reverse its antiwar stand...
Said Dr. Tittle: "We do not think that a Christian should pray for victory. . . . It is a tribal God to which men have prayed in history for military victory, not the God and Father of Our Lord Jesus Christ...
...wives and mothers. This is important when we remember that approximately half of the population of Russia is under 21 years of age. These young people are flocking to the churches and worshiping with great reverence and devotion. They will be an enormous influence in the future. Let us pray that this will be a Christian influence...