Word: sundays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their last Sunday, the condemned were visited by prison chaplains. The Catholics among .the eleven made their confessions. Only Streicher and Rosenberg refused the Sabbath solace. For the Protestants, the Rev. H. F. Gerecke, of the German Lutheran Church, intoned a prayer (which the prisoners repeated after him): "Over an ocean of hatred, His forgiving love is spread. . . . We may die at His side. . . . Lord Jesus, You have descended to human pain and felt death. You will not abandon us. Have mercy on us. Forgive us our sins. . . . We come from the erring . . . from the misery and the guilt...
This militant mouthful was spoken by ex-Captain Charles Killian Woltz, 32, on behalf of a team of 50 Lutheran war veterans in Richmond, Va. It all began in a veterans' Sunday-school class, which soon turned into a weekly bull session on the state of the world judged by Christian standards. Like most honest men, the ex-G.I.s found the world's state parlous. They decided to do something about it. Church attendance was poor-an average 280 per service out of a confirmed membership of almost 1,000. The veterans' plan: to jog their...
...with orange-&-black arm bands labeled "G.I. Lutheran Team," they spent three weeks last month calling on each of the 600 families represented in the congregation. They pointed out to AWOL church members that though times are dark, if more people went to church, things might get brighter. Most Sunday stay-at-homes promised to mend their ways; only one family gave the G.I.s a complete brushoff...
Fifteen rare and unusual chess sets, recently arrived from England, will be shown for the first time in this country in an exhibition on the second floor of the Semitic Museum from next Monday through Sunday, December...
...Lake View Avenue geyser which bubbled to the surface early Sunday morning and kept late sabbath sleepers from their afternoon baths is still going strong, the water works reported last night. Crews have been working on the break since its discovery but are having a hard time plugging it up. Flooded cellars and furious pumping operations have given that section of Cambridge a bit of Mississippi River charm...