THE HIGHT OF IRREVERENCE.
In the report of the "National Convention of the National Greenback-Labor Party," at Chicago, convened May 9, we find the following concerning the opening "prayer":— "Rev. Dr. Ingalls, of Des Moines, offered prayer, in the course of which he said the aristocratic preachers of the country had agreed to offer prayers for the Republican and Democratic Conventions on May 31st last, and that now the Greenbackers, whom they had ignored, came on their own hook. This was greeted with loud cheers, and subsequent portions of his petition called for applause and loud cries of 'Amen!'" The man who would utter such language professedly in prayer to the Almighty is past feeling the shame which any one ought to feel who is guilty of such irreverence. But so the tide runs. When prayer becomes a mockery religion is a sham.