Cost Of Praying

Tiie Legislature of Tennessee have lately made eotne shrewd calculations on tliis subject, and they carne to the conclusión thatit was too expen6ive a business fbr them to engage in, and the question of praying ivas indefinitety postponed. The proposilion wa8 fo invite the clergy to open themorningsessions with prayer. Mr. PowbIíL moved to insert in the resoiution, the word '"Monday" so that there should be prayers only on Monday morningí?. Mr. Polk was fcarful one prayer would not answer througü the week.Mr. Buck was opposed to the resoJulion; altliough he was a professor of religión, and bebnged to the churli. He wotild offer up I his eupplications n the house of God: not in the halls of Cresa r. We are commandto pray in secret, and our prayers shall be auswered opcnly. Mr. B. would commend this instruction to his colleagues on tbo floor. Mr. Fo.nville said that it would be found by fig uring out the matter that halfan hour thusspent every day ior four raonths would cost the State 4000; and one hour a day would cost 8000 dollars. Mr. Brooks moved the indefinite postponement of the resolution, which waa agreed to. It will be observed that the clergy werö not to rtceive any compensation, and the cost soaccurately iboted up was the value of tho time only which would bo spent io prayere.