Word: psalm
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...morning last week Franklin Roosevelt, lover of ritual, crossed Lafayette Square to historic, dignified old St. John's Episcopal Church. There, surrounded by his Cabinet and his Congressional leaders, he listened to Communion services led by his old headmaster, monolithic Dr. Endicott Peabody of Groton. When the 27th Psalm was read, he joined in gravely...
...When the air-raid warning sounds, I take the Bible from the shelf and read the Twenty-Third Psalm. Then I put up a wee bit prayer. Then I take a wee drap o' whiskey to steady my nerves. Then I get in bed and pull up the covers. And then I tell Hitler to go to hell...
...ingenuity in devising peculiar names, you may be interested to know that Pislam Civ (not Siv or Xiv) appeared in the one-act play contest at Bowdoin College in 1936 or 1937, if my memory serves me. This character, however, was male and derived his name from Psalm CIV. Is this a clue to how rapidly an idea travels from Maine to California...
Thanks for the story in TIME, Oct. 6, giving the good old yarn of "Pislam Siv." It happens that the clergy and seminarians, at least in my seminary days, enjoyed that a good many times! However, as we told it, the psalm...
Confronted with a Bible and asked to show where Pislam Siv figured in it, she turned to a page, pointed to the words: Psalm...