From Lighted Pathway, 1950.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.

This prayer remains a Goolewhack to this day: "Oh, great God, I pray to you only for the wicked, for you have done enough for the good in giving them goodness."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1928.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.

A valentines prayer from Purple Parrot, 1943.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.

From Lighted Pathway, 1952.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.

From Past Eight O'Clock by Joan Aiken and illustrated by Jan Pieńkowski.

From Franklin College's 1929 yearbook.

"Should we pray for the dead?"  From The War Cry, 1925.  See Of Drinking in Remembrance of the Dead.

From the 1927 Ole Miss yearbook.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.

As there's no comma after "somebody," at first glance we took it as a phrase, "Somebody God."  Let's see ...

Somebody God: polytheism or impersonal deity?

Anybody God: interfaith or religion of desperation?

Nobody God: atheism?

Everybody God: Hinduism, Unitarianism?

From Judson College's 1969 yearbook.

From Lighted Pathway, 1965.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.

From Together, 1965.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.

Great news (except for those who practice yoga): "Posture is not the important thing."  From Lighted Pathway, 1969.

The mitten is one of the easiest shadow puppets, but it's a classic.  From Watts Hospital School of Nursing's 1964 yearbook.

From Together, 1961.

"By pastor's prayers earthbound spirit, aided to atone, moves on."  From the Duluth Herald, 1920.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.

"We will have prayers now, please."  From Scribner's, 1875.

"Do you have prayer problems?"  From Lighted Pathway, 1976.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.

"Jesus was not there."  From Lighted Pathway, 1970.

"Someone in the great somewhere hears every word."  From Olivet Nazarene's 1974 yearbook.

From Prayer and Its Remarkable Answers by William Patton, 1876.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.