Word: prays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last Request. Colonel Siamak took a pen and with trembling hands wrote his last words. A mullah offered him the Koran. Siamak waved it aside: "I don't believe in God and that sort of thing." To each of the others in turn, the mullah extended the Koran. Pray and be sent to Paradise, he begged. "Paradise was the place we were going to make in this country," said one, stonily. "We know no other paradise." But three among the ten accepted the mullah's offer. Then the condemned men made one last request: to be left alone...
...have to get in tune with God and tell yourself at the start of each day, 'Another great day has begun'. . . You can be what you have pictured, and accomplish what you want your life to be . . . The formula for good days ahead is to pray hard, work hard, believe hard-and picture hard...
...reads [TIME, Sept. 27] that the Canon of Winchester wrote in the British weekly Time & Tide, "Our Lord . . . specifically ordered us to pray for and to heal the sick. But about the weather He had nothing to say. He simply accepted it." I do hope that before his face becomes too red the Reverend Canon reads Matthew 8:24-27* and reconsiders his statement that Our Lord "had nothing to say" about the weather...
Lest readers be influenced by the Canon about not praying for rain, would it not be well to encourage people to pray for anything they wanted and leave it up to God as to what prayers He wanted to answer...
...Greek) tells this nighttime vision in the concluding volumes of his monumental Study of History. While to 20th century psychoanalysts the dream may be a commonplace of troubled souls, it nevertheless sums up Historian Toynbee's ultimate message to Western civilization. The mesage is: hang on, wait and pray...