Year: 1866




Granville Moody, which | append as
follows:


MR.. MooDY's PRAYER.


''Our Father who art in Heaven, hallow-
ed be Thy name, Thy kingdom come. Thy
will be done on earth as it is in Heaven;
give us this day our daily bread, and for
give us our trespasses as we forgive those
who trespass against us; lead us not in
to temptation, but deliver us from evil;
for Thine is the kingdom, the power, and
glory, forever.


Our heavenly Father we bless Thee for
this broad and glorious land which we by
Thy providence are permitted to call our
own; we bless Thee for our honored an
cestry; we thank Thee that Thou didst sift
the nations of the old world to procure the
seed with which to sow broadcast this
| glorious heritage-freedom. We bless
Thee that Thou didst direct to these shores
the chosen few, who, guided by God, laid
broad and deep and permanent all that is
distinguished and glorious in our civil and
| political institutions. We bless Thee that
Thou didst inspire our fathers of '76 with
the wisdom, patriotism and heroism to de-
clare their rights, and pledge their lives,
| fortunes, and their sacred honor in the
maintenance Of the God-given and ina-
lienable rights of man to life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness: and that for the
maintenance of these rights, governments
among them to form Government so
wise, SO mprehcnsiye, so benign, so
beneiiccnt, that it stands the wonder Of
the world, and, we trust, to the glory of
Thy great name. .-.-


| 1--WE bless Thee for the success of our
country in all the past; that in everydark
| period Thou hast placed the day-star of
! hope on the brow of our firmament; and
especially that, during the past four years
of terrible trial, through which our insti-
tutions have passed to their glorious vim
dication, we bless Thee that Thou vast
with our people in wisdom, in patriotism,
in Providential interference; and we adj
ore Thee that Thou vast with our soldiers
who are present before Thee now from the
| loyal and disloyal States of this glorious
republic, and we rejoice that Thou vast
with them, and that a spirit of patriotism,
of courage, and Of valor was granted that
enabled them to push the battle to the
gate, and plant our banners on the ram
parts of our domestic foes.
| ''We pray that as thou hast enabled them
to vindicate the national integrity and pro-
tect the national life, with tae inalienable
rights of men, that Thou wouldst now, in
council, be spirit Of wisdom and coun-
sci of might 0 God. we invoke Thy pre-
sence; We ask thy blessing upon the coun-
ellis of this Convention. May they be di-
vinely guided, divinely aided, and divine
ly blessed, and may our institutions be
dearer to us than ever, as they have cost
so much of treasure and so much of price
less blood, and as a quarter of a million Of
graves in our own land have attested, and
still attest, the valOr and patriotism OF our
citizen sOldiery. God may we be i'm
pressed with the consideration that every
soldiers grave is a claim that we have up
on this broad and glorious land, and that
from where our green mountain troops
blend with the sky, and the grand St.
Lawrence is rolled to the waves where the
balmy Hesperides lie like dream of some
prophet of old, Thou hast enabled us to
battle, and conquer, and possess this glo-
rious land. and to spread its rainbow
| banner to the breeze. a sign that storms
shall cease, and that the flag, with its
thirty-siX stars, shall continue to wave,
and all this, by the blessing of God, by the
agency Of the Union party, by the prowess
of the boys in blue, and by tie patriotism
of the women of the land.


| GLORY to God that we meet under such
favorable circumstances; that the war
drum thrObs no longer, and the battle-flags
are furled, and that we have met to con-
serve the great interest secttred on the bat
| tle-fieldS where the national life was pre-
served and our glory won. 0 God, give
Thou spirit of wisdom, a spirit of judg-
ment, a spirit of power, the spirit of a
sonnd mind, a spirit of triumphant patri-
Otism to this Convention of loyal men.and
may it be seen in Heaven, in earth. in hell,
north and south of Mason and DiXon's
Line, and throughout the world, that there
is no ehchantment against Jacob, and no
divination against Isaac. May the Cleye-
land and Philadelphia Conventions prove
all in vain, and may the patriotism which
has secured our interests ON the battle
field be equal to the crisis of securing our
institutions from the schemes of ambitious
Il
handed, unrepentant rebels to power, and
sacrifice all we have gained by blood and
treasure.


Lord, preserve us from the great catas-
trophe. Leave us not in the hands of dis
! loyal men, and as Thou hast been with our
fathers, be with us, and lead us out to a
/ bright and glorious future; and may sue
[ceeding generations rise up and call us
honored and blessed, and thereby bring an
increasing revenue of glory to Thee. Gov
ernor amongst the nations, the Friend of
Liberty and man. All we ask is in the
name of our Lord Jesus Christ, for whom
we thank Thee, and to whom, with the
Father and the Holy Spirit, be equal and
endless praise. Amen"


ToRcHLIGHT PROCESSION.


The city is having an illumination
and torchlight procession tonight
Every building in the city, with very
few exceptions, is illuminated, and the
procession has been passing a given
point for nearly an hour, and there is
no end visible yet


The business Of the Convention will
all be done morrow. Nothing re
mains but the report of the Committee
on Resolutions, which will robably be
|radical in it's character.


MACK. :