Criticism on Prayer.

The following resolution was introduced in the Yankee Senate a few days ago by Mr. Saulsbury, of Delaware:

Resolved, That the Chaplain of the Senate be respectfully request hereafter to pray and supplicate to Almighty God in our behalf and not lecture him, informing him, under pretense of prayer, of his, said Chaplain’s opinion in reference to his duty as to his duty as the Almighty, and that the said Chaplain be further requested as aforesaid, not under the form of prayer, to lecture the Senate in relation to questions before the body.

Mr. Howard objected to the resolution and the Senate went into executive session.

Published in The Way of the World, Greensboro, North Carolina, Thursday, April 28, 1864, p. 2.