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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Feb 18, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 7.

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Lobbying in Prayer

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Lobbying in Prayer.—Rather a strange incident occurred in the California legislature January 23. Assemblyman W. S. Killingsworth announced January 22, after Chaplain Franklin K. Baker had prayed for a Sunday-closing act, that he would offer a resolution against lobbying in prayer. He evidently did not expect that it would pass. Seemingly the thought was to teach the chaplain a lesson. As it was, the motion was brought before the house, and was tabled by a vote of 40 to 30. The idea is, we suppose, that if prayers are paid for they ought to be non-partizan.