Word: prays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington News sent a despondent man to the phone in the dead of night. To the woman's voice that answered, he said: "I was intending to commit suicide tonight, and a friend told me to call you first." The warm voice at the other end began to pray. After a bit of prayer and a blessing, the would-be suicide felt unaccountably better. He mumbled his thanks and hung...
...interest in "a yellow-headed girl," was guided through to a reconciliation. All Julia Shelhamer knows about most of the people who call her is that they seem to get real help from her sure faith and reassuring words: "I know the Lord will answer prayer. Will you pray with me? If you will only confess your sins, God will take that sin away and remove the feeling of guilt...
...started playing with puukoilla (Finnish for knives) while he was still in short pants. "What old men can whittle I could whittle before I was ten," he says. "I loved my puukko so much that when I went to bed I'd put it under my pillow and pray I would some day have the sharpest knife in the world...
...anti-Communist Lord Craigavon, some 1,500 pilgrims from England and the Dominions flocked to Canterbury Cathedral by train, bus and car for a special service. It was time, they felt, to rededicate themselves in a body against the "evil and godless forces of materialism and Communism," and to pray for delivery "from those false teachers who mislead and confuse the unwary." Lying abed within the Cathedral shadows, recovering from an illness was Dr. Hewlett ("The Red Dean") Johnson, who recently returned from the Communist-sponsored Warsaw "World Peace Congress," at which he was a headline speaker...
...contributing to that kind of unity...Chinese Communists are killing Americans in an open war...In our plodding search for a solution to this problem, we cannot accept Britain's let's-do-nothing line...If this represents immature thinking on our part, let us pray that we remain young...