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Show Tiik Reve ken'! Albeht Henky, the praying pray-ing preacher, who astounded the Tammany and Tuscarora democracy at Chicatro, seems to be ''in for it" all around. An exchange, speakiiiy of his display of divine yall, says: "Apropos of the matter of prayer at political polit-ical conventions, the following passage from the prayer of Rev. A i.bkrt Hexkv of Chicago Chi-cago at the convention in that city last week is an additional argument in favor of abolishing abol-ishing what is becoming a sacred farce: "Guide thou the choice of this convention so that its nominees in character and conviction shall represent the spirit of modern democracy, a progressive d 'inocracy, of a democracy that is arrayed on thf side of the masses a against the r l:iss -- atid that strives to lift from thf shoulders of the people the burdens borne for the benefit of the faored few." This harangue appears to have been delivered de-livered to the galleries rather than addressed to the Afmighty. It was said of a prayer once offered at a public meeting in Boston that it was "the most eloquent prayer ever delivered to a Boston audience.-' So with Rev. Ai.iiKKT Hexry's effort. It was probably prob-ably the baldest political stump speech ever addressed to a Chicago audience under the I guise of a prayer. |