| Show A SHORT legislative PRAYER THE shortest legislative prayer on OD record was made last week in the senate branch of the new york legislature at albany it took just five seconds for the minister to sai say ca 0 lord I 1 invoke thy divine blemings upon u n these legislators amen and fart for this bis prayer five dollars was paid just one dollar a second it appears that the gotham law makers have no regular chaplain but prayers are formally said in both drayers bouges auses the local parsons and priests in troy and albany take turns subject to the call of the senate and assembly clerks there is no distinction made in a denominational nomi national way but those who make the he shortest prayers are generally the most popular hence it is that the five dye seand sec nd sprinter is now booked for a series of prayers during the ensuing session es sion sometimes a minister inject into his prayer a warm invocation for at spiritual epi ritual regeneration of democrats then the republicans clove close their eyes smile mile inwardly and look outwardly 8 serious 1 in n other aag cases it is vice versa there is no BO rule to guide the shape a prayer may take during the present session emion one preacher asked god to put wisdom in the senatorial head so that the excise bill would be defeated ho he entered into a regular stumps stump pia ech and wound up with an exhortation to expel the jesuitas Je suites from the he received five dollars for his eff effort lort but strict orders were issued never to call on him again the waisle arrangement seems very much like a burlesque |
