Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-03-09 | Page 40 | Speeches in Prayers

I r- r 0 Speeches in Prayers I that object to their chaplains L LEGISLATURES I j incorporating in the daily prayers pleas for forthe forthe forthe the success of certain pending legislation apparently apparently ap ap- ap- ap misunderstand the purpose of prayer and the he Ear to which it is addressed The speaker of the Indiana House recently rapped loudly for order when the he chaplain plead with the Almighty to incline the I hearts of the legislators towards the passage of a a. a wide state-wide prohibition bill In the California House I Ithe the he chaplain was warned against discussing in his daily laity app appeals als to the Throne of Grace the beauties of legislation in ill which he was interested One would assume fundamentally that the chaplain chaplain chap- chap lain ain is addressing in his petitions not the members of the I louse but out their Creator is praying for instead of ot to them or rather as ns Edward Edvard Everett Halo lalo once said for the country that was so misguided misguided misguided mis mis- guided a as to make mako them lawmakers That being the case the rather bigoted objections of the legislators are unwarranted since the tile pleas fall upon the Ear that hat is Omniscient that can read the hearts of le legislators leg leg- and that can discern the faults in proposed laws aws much more quickly even than a member of the opposition The rhe lawmaker that objects to a stump speech tinder aider e the guise of or an invocation is not only illogical jut hut he is striking at t one of tho the most ancient of or customs cus- cus toms loins oms on the part of the e exhorter horter