The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-04-02
CHAPLAIN MiLBuRa.
An Interview with the Venerable Divine
as to His Recent Prayers in the House
of Representatives-Hfs latest Petition
to the Throne of Grace,

An Interview with the Venerable Divine
as to His Recent Prayers in the House
of Representatives-His latest Petition
to the Throne of Grace.
WASHINGTON, March 30.--The celebrated
prayers which Chaplain Milburn, Of the
House of Representatives, delivered last
week, have attracted universal atten-
ton. Mr.. Milburn, in an interview, ex-
plains that in praying he addresses Con-
gressmen and through them the Nation at
large.
"When Ispeak as the Chaplain of the House
to the representatives of the people, / feel
that am addressing the Nation and am Their
representative. l am told by men who are IN
positions to be able to judge that the South
has lost since the war in wheat and cot
ton gambling a billion of money. One
small Southern town, the edition of a
newspaper tells me, has lost in the last
twenty years over SlU,000,000 in this same
way. 1t is such enormous evils as
that had reference to. To think that more
money had been gambled away than would
have been sufficient to restore the South to
its former wealth! Then referred also to the
fact that men and women, professors of Chris
tianity aud members of the churches land
have heard of even pastors of churcheSl,
would stake their all on the chances and mis-
chances of Wall street. 1t was to these things
that i drew the attention of the Ma
ton, not to the sins of any individual Con-
gresham. Different states of society, of
course have different needs. In MEDIEVAL
times the PRAYERS which were used and which
have come down to us OH vellum and parch-
ment, expressed but few and simple wants.
i he conditions of society to-day are much
more complex than they were then, and. y is
impossible for me- as Chaplain of the House,
to express all the needs of this society in a
prayer of the necessary briefnesS. Accord
ingly have had to deal them forth piece
meal, as it were. [ have been struck by the
evils existing in our time, and [ think | am
justified in petitioning the Almighty for their
correction. / see Mr.. James objected to one
prayer as an incendiary speech But have
no desire to get up and make speeches before
the Congress, and am more conservative
than incendary. have not made use of the
same prayer twice this session"
WASHINGTON. March 29.-The Chaplain s
prayer Saturday morning was as follows:
Give ear; o God of Jacob, and awaken us
to see the danger which threatens the civil
lied world-a revolution more tremendous
than any of which history tells. i'll which the
scenes of the reign of terror may enacted i'll
every capital of Europe and America. FOrlong
the few have mastered the many, because
they understood the open Secret-the tools
to them that can use them; but now the
many have learned the secret Reorganization,
! drill and dynamite. Rouse the rich of The
world to understand that the time has conc
for grinding, selfish monopoly to cease; that
corporations may get souls in them, with
justice, homer conscience and human kind
ness. Teach the rich men of this country
| Thee for other purposes than to
build aud decorate palaces to found private
collections of art to stock wine cellars, to
keep racing studs and yachts, and to find bee
ter company than hostlers grooms and jock
eys, booksellers and book-makers. Teach
them, o God, that it is Thee who hast
given them power. to get these for
tunes, thar it is to prove them, to
know what is their h arts, whether they
will keep Thy commandments, or no,
and that those commandments are: Thou
shalt love the Lord, thy God, with all thy
heart, and thy neighbor as thysef;' that if
the rich men of our land keep these &C N mand-
ments, the poor will follow the example, and
we. at least, will be saved from the days of
tribulation that are fast coming on all the
world. Helpus, . God. and save us.
Mr.. GrosvenOr. of Ohio, asked unanimous
consent that the prayer be printed in the Rec
ord.
MIR. James of New York, objected. remark
ing Sott0 UOce to a gentleman who asked him TO
withdraw his objection, that it was made be-
cause the prayer was an incendiary speech.