Word: prays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three can recognize both good and evil. When Billy hits and accidentally kills Claggart, it is Vere who must judge him. Billy has broken "the compromise between good and evil," and order must be restored. Law triumphs over justice and the Captain can only ask Billy to pray for those who must decide his fate. Billy prevents the complete triumphing of evil over good by shouting "God Bless Captain Vere" just before he is to hang by the Captain's judgment...
Fresh Pasture. Last week, 1,000-odd people in dust-covered cars drove up a dirt road in Lincoln Forest for the annual meeting at Nogal Mesa. Four times a day they filled the rough pine tabernacle (which ranchers built themselves two years ago) to pray and listen to Brother Hoyt Boles, a hefty, plain-spoken Presbyterian from Denton, Texas, and Brother Bob Goodrich, a Methodist from Dallas. There was no shouting or breast-beating. Even conversions came quietly, with only the exchange of a firm handclasp between minister and convert...
...Said Berlin's bearded Bishop Otto Dibelius, who has been more outspokenly anti-Communist than other German Protestant churchmen: "We especially pray for our imprisoned brothers & sisters here and out in the wide world...
When Rita M. McPherson states, ". . . Many of my friends and I pray constantly for Paul Blanshard ..." I trust that she means that they pray that he might be given the wisdom of understanding and tolerance...
...Beate Pie, ora pro nobis [Blessed Pius, pray...