| Show PRAYER PRATER IN THE legislature the manner in which the office and duly of oba chaplain plain have been spoken ol of by members of the legislature bath in caucus and open ha has ill b been son calculated to expose to ridicule that must moat of the people of at our state regard as sacred the great majority if f we the inhabitants of utah are preeminently a religious community and it i rates h harshly on their feelings to bear the subject of prayer spoken of contemptuously or even lightly when men are engaged in the discharge 0 of labors or duties to which attaches attach great responsibility or solemnity an appeal to the deity for aid light and guidance uttered by themselves or by a speak ing in their presence and behalf has a good effect it tends to impose cc the mind to calm and 0 ear the judgment to promote harmony and unity and to increase faith in the beneficence 0 he be creator A man who is ie religious or reverential in bis nature has a desire for such snob a spiritual exercise and do de rives help comfort and courage from it while a man who is neither religious not bor reverential cannot easily be injured by listening to a prayer for these and other reasons it Is ie quite consistent coBal stent and appropriate aba we he dally daily sessions of a legislative body should be opened with prayer but ii if the prevailing sentiment among the members of the body is one of contempt or even disrespect towards the ob chaplain and his sacred function it were better to abolish his office better that there should be no public prayers lim in a legislative body than that they should be made the a subject or abject of coarse jokes or irreverent comment |
