Word: prayerfully
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...Chaplain as a mockery of a sacred duty. But such it is not. Though some may laugh, shall we, through fear of them, hesitate to express our thanks openly to the Almighty for the rich gifts of our Alma Mater? Does the fervency and success of our Chaplain's prayer suffer from the want of appreciation of the many? Are we the more likely to feel our own gladness by treasuring it in our hearts, or by recording it with a full heart in the person and lips of our class Chaplain...
...college. We choose an Orator whose skill will express our acquirements to our friends and fellows. We choose a Chaplain to express our sentiments and freshness of heart. A wrong selection (as has once or twice occurred) does not dishonor the office, but the class. He stands as their prayer to heaven, - if it be a curse, they must bear it; if a blessing, they must receive it. And though he should speak but the thought of one or two beside himself in his class, let us have him, for he is the title-page to our book of life...
...more than a solemn sort of blasphemy. This is not a subject on which it is best to argue, but let any one examine the feeling with which this office is regarded in his own mind and in that of his acquaintances, and see if the chaplain and the prayer are not considered as the proper thing, adding a certain amount of dignity and distinction to the day, and not as the expression of the sincere religious feeling of any portion of the class. This is of course addressed to those who believe in the first article of the Christian...
...When the prayer is half-way through...
...prayer is over; a holy hush...