The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-04-18
NEW YORK, TUESDAY, APRIL ls, 1866.

and they mourn for him with sincerity and evidently
heartfelt grief During the services at this church the
whole audience was literally convuised with their
<on Of SORROW and loudly bewaed the which they
in connection with the nation, had sustained
At the church Of the Rev DR. Gurley-being that In
which the President worshipped he being the
gyman in attendance in his last hours-ths public evi
IDENTIFY expected that the services Of the morning would
have especial reference to the sad events which have
enshrouded the country In mourning; and they were
not disappointed, although the service 70 which the
major portion Of the exercises At an early hour
only were the stngs occupied and the ases filled by
soemnly affected mass Of people, but large numbers were
compelled to leave from inability to obtain admission
The church was very appropriately and astefy draped
with black alpaca. the white marble pulpit covered with
the same MATERIAL contrasting mournfully with tha whte
linen overlaying tho emblems Of the Sacrament Of the
for the administering Of which the day had
specially assigned. One unoccupied space, near
the centre Of the church, alone remained 70 impress
upon the minds Of all the reality Of the nations loss
the untenanted pew OF the late President with It's heavy
fringe of deep back, mournfully eloquent The SER
vices commenced with the choir singing the solemn
chant, "Cast thy burden on the Lord. and He shall
sustain thee, which, beautifully executed listened
to with almost breathless attention Evidently deeply
impressed by the great public calamity and the distress
Ing scenes to which he had been Witness and with dis
position to respond TO expectation made manifest by
the unusual concouse of people, the pastor, after the
solemn invocation and the singing Of hymn stated that
no would preface the special services for the day by
some remarks pertinent to the wonderful and
narrowing scenes which had filed our people
with dismay and covered the land with . pail.
about the space Of ten minutes the attention Of the
audience was rivetted to tho speaker, who launched
tala
Ism and devotion OF Abraham Lincoln, who after years
the most painful solcituds for the welfare Of the
country, had lived to witness the evidences and guar
antees Of coming and the early
Of order and to give comforting TO his
Tymen Of benevolent and conciatory policy, which
abundantly illustrated his crownng virtues, TO die the
victim OF assassination. He bade his hearers look up
through their tears in condng trust to that Providence
which their ancestors recognized in establishing this the
land Of religion and religious and republican liberty and
which had sustained them in the days Of the
Revolution, and which fails q conhding people.
Gods hand had been too manifest in the whole his
tory of the country from the days Of the Pilgrims
to the present moment to justify any despondsncy in
view of the present gloom and thanks to the nature
of institutions the virtue Of tho people, aud their
religious trust, thousand Presidents might become
victims Of violence Cabinet after Cabinet fall by the
hand Of the assassin and country would yet live, and
progress In her march Of greatness 1t would be mpOs
sibe in words describe the effect Of the discourse
upon audience by events rendered susceptible to the
preachers appeals and but few did not experience pain
u emotions in the suppression Of external evidences of
their sadness of heart
The sad event appropriately noticed In all the
churches except the previously mentioned the
tor of which is understood to be imbued with strong
Southern sympa,h,ss. The churches ALI we'll At
tended, and the audiences were evidently fully i'm
pressed with the solemnty and importance Of the occa
sion.
INTERESTING INCIDENTS OF Mr.. LIscoLN's LAST
- -, 49, -.
At the last Cabinet meeting which Mr. lincoln attend
ed Friday at which Lieutenant General Grant was
present he turned to the General and asked him he
had heard from General Sherman? General Grant re-
piled that he had not but hourly In expectation of
receiving dispatches from him. announcing the surren
der Of Johnston.
"we said the President, 'you will hear very soon
now, and the will be important"
sswhy do you think so9n said the General
"Because, - said Mr.. Lincoln, az had dream last
night and ever since the began have invariably had
the came dream before any very important military event
has occurred" He then instanced Bun run, Antietam
and said that before each of those events
he had had the dream, and turning to Secretary
welles said -
"It is in your line, too, Mr. welles. The dream is
that saw ship sailing very rapidly, and that
it porends some important national event"
On Friday evening the most important event OF the b
four years occurred and to-day the expected news
Of Johnsons surrender received The assassination
of the President recalled the incident forcby to the
recollection Of those present.