First prayer, then letters

Peter: "It was shortly after World War II. Do you remember World War II? Absolutely ghastly business. I was against the whole thing."

Dudley: "I think we all were."

Peter: "Yes, well, I wrote a letter."

—From an old Dudley Moore/Peter Cook comedy routine

From this morning’s Inside Higher Ed:

Students at Ohio University played a key role Friday in preventing an employee from committing suicide. The Columbus Dispatch reported that about 15 students were gathered for a weekly prayer session when they heard about a threat by a man to jump from a fifth floor ledge in the student union. The students responded with prayer and were eventually joined by other students. One student proposed that they write letters to the man, encouraging him to live, and a crisis specialist read several of the letters to the man, who was persuaded not to kill himself.