Word: prays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Svelte, brunette Fiorenza Drew is the kind of helpmeet ambitious politicians pray for. An attractive mother of two, and one of Canada's best-dressed women, she is as handy before a microphone as she is before the kitchen range. Last week when her husband, new Progressive Conservative Leader George Drew, set out to stump for himself and his party, Fiorenza, as usual, went along. They tackled Quebec first, a province where the party is weak and where a lot of selling needs to be done. Fiorenza pitched...
...That 95% of U.S. citizens believe in God, with 76% describing themselves as church members. Ninety percent stated that they pray-and 56% said that they pray "frequently...
...average pollee sounded not unlike the Pharisee who went into the temple to pray.* To the question-"If you yourself followed [Christ's rule of love] ALL THE WAY, what would you do differently-that is, how would it change your life?"-half answered that they would not change their present lives at all. Nearly two-thirds (62%) admitted that on thinking over the past 24 hours they could recall no time when they might have acted differently if they were explicitly following Christ's injunction: "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." At the same time...
...last week as they gathered for the 69th annual conference of the British Conservative Party in Llandudno (pronounced: hlandidno), Wales. It was the largest Conservative conference ever held, and the first which opened with a religious service. An elderly delegate said: "We do well to thank God, and to pray for His help in the future." It was the first time since the Tories' great defeat in 1945 that the gloom which encircled them showed signs of lifting...
...supposed to pause and pray while you are at work. American Trappist notions of contemplation do not extend to that: on the contrary you are expected to make some act of pure intention and fling yourself into the business and work up a sweat and get a great deal finished by the time it is all over. To turn it into contemplation you can occasionally mutter between your teeth: 'All for Jesus! All for Jesus!' But the idea is to keep on working...