Excerpt from The American Magazine of Civics, Vol. 8: January to June, 1896 Where. They cast lots we give votes. Where they referred the decision to a divine Power, overruling the operations of chance, we may rightly refer the choice to the same divine Power, working through the higher medium of the judgment and will of men. We believe his spirit guides the minds and hearts of those who seek him, and that his providence overrules all things for the good of his people. No Christian man should met a ballot, therefore, upon which he would hesitate to invoke the divine hissing. If prayer and the ward meetings are incongruous conceptions, so much the worse for modern politics, so much more the need of purifying and reforming them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.