The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-10-23
PRAYERS.


The Baptist ministers .of Washing
ton City have appealed 10 me iilei,i- i
hers of all the churches to Jolll 'heil'
on fine first Monday of November, III
nrayers for the safety and Sood oi Illo
romHtry in the result of the presldch-
tiol election. The appeal is SO solemn
and weghty that one would suppose
thot the country is ON the brihk "l
great civil convulsion Which may
HrinU universal confusion ANA rum 10
if The subject had gone before 'ile
conference Of the Baptist minister's
and some doubt as to its propriety ana
usefuIness was expressed. one KEY ~
thought the prayers might lall my
nortiSan methods, ana that they would
be, i'm his opinion, equivalent 10 sup
nIicati0ns for the success OF thc NGI
ppnhlican party and its candidates. II
thn brethren would cOntine themselves
to PRAYER, he thought it would be We'll
hnt he believed they would pray poll
tics and that would not be well. An
nthnr said that the preachers W3uIu
nrov each for his own party, ana ~
thny were nearly equally DIVIDED IN
rns9rct of the parties, the result W"UIu
amount TO an equilibrium only ne
IiJn,t nut it exactly in this form, huI
II il tbr substance Of it, and Is dITDPG"
of the recent call ON the New YORK
noIicemen for subscriptions to tlle c''il-
nroiyu fund. one Of them sad ne was
willing to contribute to the NarllcI''
r.use. if there should he Il cofrrsponll4,I, Z, !,
in" contribution made to the Garllelu
mnd. and if this just mode were
aJnnird. probably, few of the men
ynnId refuse To give. The reply was
" why. You might rs well keep your
,nnncv for the result would he eIui'I
hnin and that would he no advantage
to either party" ,..,,i,, tI,i.
o,nditi1n. Given that thousand
|. nray for Garfield and n thousand lol
Ho4cock, which of them can eNpceI
anv benefit from the wcll-balahcc'
supplications a., ,rosumntio,
- thn fears of some of the ministers
, who declared that the preaciet> ~ I,'
, about equally divided III respect III ''''
two presidential candidates. a.,
In reply to the suggestion llat i'tirai, 'ii
exercises should he cohlineu cI'lI.I..
! to praycr. another one SAID the pIT'li
4 ren could pray polIl'N7 ~.
nrpach il. DR. Mason, OF Nashl'iS
4 tnn said the call for prayer was not
; PARTISAN document, and he mehIloil'
, what is stated rs follows:
: The ministers at the capital felt llat
crisis was approaching no less grave aL
Scycre than that through which the eouhll
nassed i'm 1867 that at that time an i
!, tempt was made to assas>lnate iIt>luei Itl..,
u Haves. which fact has never neeh MAJ @
u nnIlic until this time, and that for sever
It mnntbs then both parties in MashlhSl lo
5 ,,erp armed in anticipation Of bloou-sne,
IS and that even the ministers there VIZ q
ro,,uIariy drilled and armed also. III u
at,acE On the President his carriage w
:, LsJIy torn, hut he escaped.
K The ministers seem to think TN
c. there will be another ks affair ne
lie March. If prayers can avert thal
at will be well to pray in season anu OF
Of season, for Hancock is not man
he nut aside as Tilden was, nor Is u
"a nsrtv i'm a mood to submit To 1t.
ne Bnt the conference finally decld
is Tn make the 1st November, day
general prayer.