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Show INVOCATION AT DENVER. .Following is the invocation delivered by Right Rev. John J . Keane, D.D. bishop of Cheyenne, Wyo., at the opening of the Democratic national convention conven-tion in Denver on Tuesday, July 7: "0 God, from whom all public authority derives its power, by whose will the obligations of obedience to human laws are securely established on motives of conscience and judgments are decreed in justice, look with favor on this convention, so representative representa-tive of a sovereign people a people blessed through the disposition of Thy providence, with a remarkable remark-able national policy, such as the world never saw before or elsewhere, and which it is so pleasant to live under. "Bless its members, its works, its aims. Grant that it may be eminently wise in its deliberations and x wisely disinterested in its decisions. Inspire each member with a deep sense of his responsibility. responsibil-ity. Give him strength to overcome the prejudices of personal and sectional interests, and to seek for his guidance calmly reasoned convictions. Inspire him to maintain and encourage that higher level of thought, that enhanced sense of responsibility, that better life, political and social, which secure true national greatness. "May we all realize that the blood of a nation may be drained less nobly than on the battlefield; that every capacity for high and generous execution execu-tion for cheerful endurance of suffering at the bidding of duty, that all the stock of moral force upon which a country can rely in its hour of trial must be encouraged and fostered if our glorious institutions are to endure: that the security of a people which is great by virtue of personal liberty and individual initiative depends more on high virtue vir-tue than on strength of arms: that peace and prosperity pros-perity are insured better by the influences of religion, reli-gion, which make for ideal citizenship, than by the extension of territorial lines. "In this faith, we pray Thee, by whom the suffrage, suf-frage, the law, the social system hold, to make the work of this conventionexhibit and embody the divine div-ine idea." |
