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Most of Author Myers' prayers concern social matters. "For Slum Clearance" is definitely informative: Do Thou make us ashamed of our toleration of the slums, which in disproportionate measure continue to make criminals and prostitutes of many boys and girls who never had a chance. Reflecting the New Dealish attitude of the Federal Council of Churches, the prayer "For Labor" comes closest to striking a political note...
...aware that the resemblance is meagre ("I am not like Dickens at all"), his latest book may well give the myth a wider circulation. Dickens' sideline was social sympathy; Author Priestley's English Journey, a lengthy digression into the economic back streets of his country, shows the same individualist concern over poverty and ugliness, the same little-English confidence that character will muddle through the worst economic mess...
...settled at a point where the Appomattox flows into the James. For nearly three centuries thereafter the name of Hopewell had no fame. In October 1914 the du Pont company got an order from the French Government to manufacture nitrocellulose for smokeless powder. The No. 1 U. S. munitions concern built a huge nitrocellulose plant and a new town at Hopewell which before the Armistice had become a throbbing city of 40,000 souls. After the Armistice the du Pont plant was dismantled. Hopewell was again about to fade off the map when Tubize Artificial Silk Co. built...
...perfect and regularize the position of the spiritual leader of our church. . . . We no longer harbor imaginary fears regarding the creation of a permanent See, without additional jurisdiction, from which the spiritual affairs of the church may be wisely and disinterestedly guided. . . . Frankly I cannot fathom the concern sometimes expressed in the use of one of the most ancient, democratic and venerable titles of the Christian Church. Nobody is fearful of an archdeacon. The most democratic people in the world have lived and prospered under the leadership of an arch-bishop...
...sent him dashing to a creek. Badly burned, he was dragged from the creek by a neighbor who started to drive him to a hospital. On the way they collided with a truck, wrecking the car. Next morning Farmer Storms died. Said Jennie Quackenbush: "Will Storms' death does not concern me in the least...