Word: prays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...city officials alike, so as to spare the community any repetition of the police scandals that shamed Denver last year. Next Sunday, at the climax of this rogation period, more than 200 clergymen will read to their congregations an admonition from // Chronicles: "If my people . . . shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." "Recreation & Renewal." Not all the prayers were offered for such solemn causes. In Atlanta's Morningside Presbyterian Church, Dr. Arthur Vann Gibson offered...
...initiative, dedicated Christian laymen are experimenting with new forms of corporate worship. In some business firms, the prework prayer service is now almost as customary as the coffee break. Oklahoma City has at least 100 separate groups of Protestant businessmen and factory hands who gather during the day to pray in common for such causes as world peace and the recovery of sick friends. Detroit Lawyer Robert Choate. a Congregationalist. belongs to a cell of laymen who gather at 8 a.m. each Wednesday in a downtown office and hold a session of prayer. "All through the state I keep hearing...
Getting in Tune. Dedicated worshipers are making it easier for others to pray along with them. Continental Airlines distributes cards containing a grace-before-meals along with its lunch and dinner trays. Los Angeles Disk Jockey Dick Whittinghill of KMPC calls up his teen-ager listeners between records, asks them to join him in reciting a close cousin of the New York State Regents' Prayer: "Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon thee, and we beg thy blessing upon us, our parents, our teachers, our loved ones and our country.'' Hollywood Psychiatrist Bernice Harker. a Methodist...
...weeks have reaffirmed my admiration and affection for the people of this part of the world and filled me with gratitude for all their kindness and courtesy. That they, who give so much in heart and spirit, should suffer loss of life and home is truly a calamity. I pray that all who have suffered may speedily be helped in their great need...
...under him it has performed with a professional polish that would do credit to a city several times Buffalo's size. Part of the trick in leading an orchestra, suggests Krips, is adroit use of psychology. For the first year, he asked the Buffalo musicians to pray before every concert: "I told them we are not playing Beethoven, we are privileged to play Beethoven; let us pray that we have the blessing to play it well...