Word: prayer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...James' Episcopal Church. The President had brought with him from Washington a Bible (King James version), a gift to the church from the King and Queen of England in remembrance of the Sunday last June when they worshipped there with Mr. Roosevelt. Lacking an appropriate passage in the prayer book of the U. S. Episcopal Church, the Reverend Frank R. Wilson read from an English Book of Common Prayer: "O Lord, most heartily we beseech Thee, with Thy favor to behold Thy most gracious sovereign, Lord, King George. . . . Strengthen him that he may vanquish and overcome all his enemies...
Rebuffed by the 43 votes he received, Thomas J. Daly, "The Taxpayers' Prayer for Mayor," was still singing his campaign song as he waited for the returns in the Election Commissioners' Office last night. Taking many slugs at a bottle of "cough medicine," Daly announced that he had already begun his fight for the nomination two years hence...
Congratulations to TIME for this answer to a scholar's prayer...
...Lord, bless the young," was the prayer of Anitsa Sheulic, little Yugoslavian girl, "make them sympathize with all living creatures and all human things. . . . Thus there shall be no hungry and naked children through the whole world; there shall be no more wars or any slaves among us, only brethren helping each other...
Anitsa Sheulic's prayer was read at the opening of the American Red Cross's 1938 convention. Last week it was still timely. As the Red Cross, in the 75th anniversary of its founding, got its annual Roll Call for membership well under way. it still found plenty to do in the world...