Word: prays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Never have I seen a more discouraging sight than the rogues' gallery. No wonder it was said that the Rev. Phillips [Ze Barney T. Phillips, chaplain of the Senate]" used to look at Congress and pray for the country...
...Commissioners. Their renewed offensive won a break-through just before adjournment. Then they succeeded in striking out Dr. Kerr's fiery sentence, substituting the much more restrained: "We have no alternative as a nation but to engage in this war." Nevertheless, Presbyterians are still officially committed to "pray for and work for a righteous victory." The Presbyterians acknowledged that the U.S. was not entirely guiltless ("Our own hands are not clean, nor our own hearts without sin"), called on the U.S. to abandon isolationism forever and accept "her rightful share of the responsibility for building a world order...
...Lutheran pastor, in sober black clerical gown, stood up in his pulpit at Woodstock, Va. and preached with godly fervor and patriotic warmth. "There is a time for all things," he ended, "a time to preach and a time to pray. But there is also a time to fight, and that time has now come...
...Cissie Patterson is strong enough to account for a great deal. Winchell admitted that his opinion of Cissie is partly unprintable. According to a Washington story, she has said: "There isn't a night goes by that I don't get down on my knees and pray that they take the off shore duty and put him on a destroyer that will sink...
...Batavia, doves cluster at dusk on the crocodile cages, supple natives bathe in the filthy canals ("They are a very clean people, but they like their water dirty"). An ancient cannon, sacred but now annoyingly useless, stands at Batavia's Amsterdam Gate. The native women pray to it for fertility and have so many babies that Java has 817 people per square mile. According to native superstition, the cannon has a wife at Bantam on the western end of the island. When the two meet, Dutch rule in Java will...