Word: prays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Pope (see p. 55) asked Catholics everywhere to pray for peace. And a Vatican spokesman, referring to the intense diplomatic activity in and around Europe, said: "It is a self-evident fact that the Holy See cannot remain indifferently inactive in the face of the possibility, however remote, of reaching a solution of the present international situation." But these things did not prove that the Pope would promote such a plan...
...they will fabricate this week's column, Hence, I find my self poised over the typewriter with word baited fingers about to race (did I say race or erase) over the key-board to bring to the readers of this column a few seeds of humor which, I pray, may blossom into a smile or perhaps a laugh. If this should occur to but one reader, my journalistic effort will not be in vain...
...York Timesman Cyrus Sulzberger reported from Moscow that the Nazis are using Russian Orthodox prelates in Occupied Russia, that the clerics set up an autonomous church, have expressed "admiration" for Adolf Hitler's "heroic struggle," pray "to the All Highest to bless Axis arms with victory." In unoccupied Russia the loyal church denounced the schism, promised expulsion of the renegades...
...Ages, The ranking Chaplain (of 13) on Attu, Lieut. Colonel Reuben E. Curtis, a Mormon from Salt Lake City, opens his khaki Bible and reads "Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions. . . ." He prays: "O God, great and omnipotent judge of the living and the dead, before whom we all are to appear after this short life to render an account of our works, lift our hearts, we pray Thee." Then he murmurs "I am the resurrection and the life," etc., followed...
Said Lord Halifax: "Small wonder if men & women everywhere are unsatisfied and ill at ease, since in their hour of greatest need they have lost that which was indeed their birthright - the knowledge of how to pray. Yet, amid all the sorrow and darkness . . . there is consolation. The example alone of heroism . . . as it appears in thousands of lives . . . [shows] that man has renounced the philosophy which paralyzed so much literature and art in the prewar world. Truly, as day by day we see acts of willing self-sacrifice . . . we can . . . turn with firm confidence from the temporary triumphs...