Show P MI ILM IL M M ne mrs barnest senate chaplain marshall offers challenging prayer nver by news analyst and commentator tunu Servi service lec 1010 eye street N IV washington U D 0 WASH washington INGTON many words spoken beneath mhd high arched d dorne dome of the capitol become first pago page news but seldom quoted ore are the words which rj appear beginning with the third paragraph ot of tho the first page cage of tho the congressional record however twice recently they were quoted and a n d widely P they were preceded by two first para graphs ts which for the past ast 10 years have varied only as to the proper names baukhage SZ and hour men tinned therein the senate met at ill 11 a m on the expiration of the tha recess the chaplain rov rev peter marshall D D offered the following prayer then came paragraph three including the part of the prayer offered ot tor for that day that appealed to me P forbid it lord that we should walk through thy beautiful world with unseeing eyes forgive us our father for taking our good things 47 aitor for granted so that wo we ore are in dazi dan 14 ger of losing the one fine art of i appreciation 5 with alth such dire need in every other part of the world make us so grateful tor for the bounties wo we enjoy that we shall try by thy help to deserve them more where we w are wrong knake us willing to change and whore where we are anre right mabeus easy to uvo live with I 1 repeated that last paragraph on my broadcast because one of my associates had called aitto my atten atlen that morning since then 1 I have been getting letters from rom all over tho the country asking for copies of that ahat prayer Xi earlier arlier though I 1 had not noticed the items time magazine had carried astory a i story about chaplain marshall and magazine had quoted port part of 0 adoth er prayer help us to io dobur do our very best tills day and be content with troubles coubles rou bles so that wo we shall not borrow tho the troubles of to morrow save us from the ho hin of worrying test lest stomach ulcers bo be tho badge of our lack of falth faith amen at 1 I 1 think my choice is a fairer cairer sampie sample of but both sey aey sections reveal one characteristic ol of thi the doctors utterances which perhaps 2 Is a reason for or his popularity ile he Is able to reduce religion to the simplest and most understandable terms lifs his similes like those of his teacher are token taken out of bf our daily ufa life peter marshall Is aw on interesting personas pers person persons onas os well as a popular preacher immigrant 1 grant boy bay fulfills ambition dr marchalls marshalls Mai Mar personal persona history Is s reminiscent of early horatio algor alger lie he came to this country from a foreign land because he believed america wis the land of opportunity aul his story is unique in this he te came ahm not with the dream of baking making his his fortune but to fulfill an ambition tor for neither wealth aitor nor power but simply to get E theolog leal education he was born in in ann scotland ills father ded when hen he was little and marshall was raised bahls by his mother and stepfather who sent him to public school and later to a technical institution ution on graduation he took a I 1 position in a tubo tube manufacturing concern but he wanted to bo be a minister and he decided it would be easier to obtain an education for this thi calling in the united states lie he came to this country in his early twenties found work in new jersey but soon pad had an opportunity to so go to alabama where he joined the business department of the BirmIngh arn news with the holp help of some friends who become I 1 interested rife rested in till this S pleasant scottish boy with the intriguing burr and the inspired goal he was able to enter columbia theological seminary from which he was graduated in 1031 1931 ile he held two pastorates past orates in georgia and made the acquaintance of 0 i the young lady who Is liaw his wife alc in 1037 he was called to the his church of the presidents in washington a church which has nur numbered among its worshippers wor shippers john quincy adorns adams andrew jackson william henry harrison Harr json james i Ruch annn andrew johnson millard Fill grover cleveland taco dore roosevelt and abraham lincoln 11 whose pow pew left as it was when 1 be ti elised used it t Is a shrine tor for tourists dr marshall was elected chaplain ot at the senate on january 4 of 0 this ye year arand and it might inight be well to record a bit of recent history ok as a background to hla his selection dr zo ze darney barney phillips was chaplain of the senate for 35 15 years ears from 1027 to 1042 when he died many senators head had favorite candidates for his job they auditioned thern them just like radio announcers although the ministers know they were being auditioned and no senator would admit such a thing from among the candidates candidate dr frederick frederick drown brown harris methodist emerged victorious gossips say because ho he delivered the shortest prayer later on dr harris prayers became longer a common phenomenon among senate chaplains according to some of the old timers in congress what they dont add is that in the speech mak ingest body in the country the affliction may bo be contagious traditionally filling ailing of the chaplains post to Is a majority party pro 4 X M tim the rev llev peter marshall OI ILI 01 1 senate chaplain offered a prayer that probed deep into the consciousness i ness of the nations busy harassed legislators and so tho the republican lucani congress convened after dIspo disposing ging of the question of senator qualifications senator wherry arose to offer a resolution that dr marshall be elected chaplain of so senate liate but wherrys pherrys proposal touched off an argument occupying nine close typed colu columns in the con gressional record no chap lain would dare deliver a sermon THAT long democratic sen alben barkley maintained that dr harris had done a fine job and should bo be retained ho 1110 added that politics should not bs be permitted to touch the office of senate chaplain lie ile opined opened that republicans public ans tins were offering a very poor example for the time when the democrats resume control of the body two years from now 1048 11 republican senator bridges was shocked at tho the implication that poll tics bics might be involved why ho he protested he even know dr marshalls marchalls Mar politics lint but the republicans had their majority ir dr marshall got the job and as aa far as I 1 can learn nobody has regretted the choice there ore are sonic some washingtonians Washington ians who have read and listened to this scottish boy whom america Ameri ert has awarded for achi achievement movement in a calling in which there are often few earthly awards who feel that his pre presence sence in tho the lincoln church is quite ns as appropriate as his ap ns as chaplain of the senate they feel that if the ghost of the great emancipator ever slips into his old pow pew of a sunday he smiles in approval of the tha simple earthy trul truisms sms not too unlike his own which come down from one pulpit in that friendly scottish burr with the tha samo same terse impact with which they echo from tho the rostrum of the senate |