ihe kingdom of the prince of peace may come and in the hearts and of men unite them in holy fellowship that bo their only strife may be who shall show with most humble and holy thy praises and most and affectionately obey thy laws o lord our governor who hast been of man and him who made him lower than the angels to him with glory and worship and hast made to have of ot thy hands and put all in under hia feet we devoutly thank thee for the and protection thou hast extended b this great and benevolent enterprise to which we are now assembled we acknowledge that it is thy spirit which hath ven to man understanding in of skill enterprise and we would ask thy inspiring power in ah this of these powers of combination these hands and fingers of and this of furnished from the treasury of nature the opening bt we would bee thy we pray that the happy of may be to a generous and petition among tlie of art aud labor the world and that we may all look upon it as a of the and goodness of god in man wi li rich and which faithfully exercised will ki the comfort the and the at of the great family of man o lord onr heavenly father the high and mighty ruler of the we thy blessings upon the president of the united states and upon all in authority over aa and so them with the grace of thy holy spirit that they may always to thy will and wait in thy way give grace o heavenly father to all and other s that they may both by their life and doctrine set thy true and holy word and rightly and duly administer thy holy prosper o lord our schools and and cause them to be more than the of sound learning of pure morals and religion and we thee pour the influence of thy holy spirit on all the people of this land and save them tlie guilt of blessings of prosperity to luxury and to and vice may the devout sense of manifold as vouchsafed to us as a nation renew and in us a of love aud to a spirit of to the laws and government of our and a spirit of honest zeal for our holy faith may we improve these blessings for the advancement of religion liberty and knowledge throughout our land till the wilderness and b be glad fur them and the desert rejoice and om as the rose and now god to us thy presence in the services of the day � direct us in all our doings with thy most favor and further us with thy continual help that in all our works begun continued and ended b we may thy holy name and by thy obtain everlasting life almighty god the of all wisdom who our necessities before we and our ignorance in asking we thee to have compassion upon our and those which for our we dare not and for our we ask to give us for the of thy son christ om lord in whose name and m whose holy words we sum up our unto thee saying � our father which art in heaven be thy name thy kingdom come i thy will be done on as it is in heaven give us this day our bread aud us our oa we forgive that against us and lead us not temptation but deliver us from evil for thine is the and the power and the glory for ever and ever then came stealing through the vast the hymn of old hundred set to semi words the effect where we stood the great exhibition under the dome was grand it might be imagined to the voices of distant nations rolling in harmonious through the and bearing the accents of gentleness and their artistic interpretation was to the ladies and gentlemen of the sacred society and admirably did they execute their task mr george was the conductor of the body mr however was the chief of all the musical arrangements the hymn ran thus � here � all their here where all arts tribute lay before thy presence lord we bend and for thy smile aod pray fur thou dost sway the tides of thought and hold the issues in thy hand of all l at toil has and all skill has d thou lead st the restless power of mind o er destiny s field aod st him bold but blind to mighty not yet revealed next mr the president of the l palace association rose and addressed president pierce in the following language � mr amid this of people in this assembly of per collected from all parts of the ld in every department of human skill aod by the of intellect and the eye and the mind inevitably sir upon you applause upon you the of that system to which under god we owe our public blessings � of that vast founded by the immortal whose before us and the chief powers of which have been through a long of illustrious to your hands renewed applause it has fallen and will fall to the lot of others to welcome you m it ia duty sir as the officer of the which raised this edifice to thank you most cordially most for the honor you have this day done us � we feel it deeply it was perceived by us at the very outset of our enterprise that it was to our complete success to obtain the approbation and secure the confidence of onr own government � that while we were of course mainly to rely on our own it was at the same time to create a that our the opening public and our aims national the work of on this the seal ot national as tar as 