To the members of both branches of the Legislature I beg leave to extend my congratulations, on the opportunity afforded them of exhibiting the connexion of the highest truths with the most important offices of life. With them it remains to show how religion and politics can be united, without marring the sanctity of the one, or impairing the freedom of the other. And in closing the remarks, to which, if I could, I would frame an apology for compelling them so long to listen--but my only apology must be my interest in the subject--I know not how I can better express my gratitude for their attention, or my desire for their greatest good, than by indulging the mingled hope and belief, that they will, in the discharge of their official duties, show themselves to be "able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness," and, whatever they do, doing "all to the glory of God." End of Project Gutenberg's The Religion of Politics, by Ezra S. Gannett