The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-04-17
Sunday Services,

Sunday Services.
The churches throughout the city werel
idraped in mourning and in many of them thel
morning services were appropriate to the
1 mournful occasions. In others, such services
( took place in the evening. We give brief
account OF such as our reporters have handed
Jus.
PARK STREET CHURCH.
4 The pulpit in Park Street Church was very
stastefully draped in mourning, with beauti-
sful bouquet of white flowers in vase resting
2upon the bible placed in front of the pulpit.
ssThe sermon by Rev. Mr.. Hewes, was from
B Romans, 9th chapter and 18th verse. 1t was
smainly extemporaneous, dwelling at some
length upon the many virtues and spotless life
$of him whose unexpected and untimely death
&the nation SO sincerely mourned. Notwith
#standing the darkness of the hour, and the Sc
Hvere trials through which we are called to pass
IA bright future awaits us, and that behind 8
&lrowning Providence, will soon be seen a smil
&ing face.
81 STATE STREET CHURCH.
"A State Street Church was tastefully draped
&4Ile DulDlL WAS CQveIcu Will -UdRhkuE1htstf
sssand the organ were festooned with embems de
snotng profound grief. The clock, which wal
S3surrounded with mourning. denoted the tim.
||Aof the decease of the President-22 minutes
8past seven.
81 Rev. Mr.. Walker, the pastor, took for BIZ
Sstext, Isaiah ii;22, and Psalm cxlvi: 4. HI
&alluded to the assassination of William, Prince
s5of Orange--whose dying exclamation was
&c God, have mercy upon my soul! o God
A3have mercy upon my country"-and who at the
sstime was engaged in the same holy work that
& President Lincoln was when he was ASSIST
99nated-a struggle of the nation for free speech,
Sfree Institutions and freedom for the people.
Hereafter, said Mr.. Walker, in all pages of his
Story the names of William, Prince of Orange
;and Abraham Lincoln will be mentioned to-
sgether as having died in the same manner for
THE support of holy cause.
I Taking rapid glance of the four years. adj
sministration Of President Lincoln, he alluded
ito the situation of affairs at the time of his
ldeath. Like Moses, he was permitted to see,
Jas from the top OF Pisgah the promised land
/ the promise OF peace and a united nation-but
aike the Prophet, it was not Gods will that he
2should lead the people into it. Another must
lido it like Joshua. He had faith in him upon
whose shoulders this burden had fallen, and it
was the duty of every Christian to pray for
Andrew johnson.
In summing up the lessons to be learned from
sthis calamity, Mr.. Walker spoke in his usual
fearless manner, and urged upon American
;citizens to rededicate themselves anew to the
lwork of crushing out and entirely uprooting
ssevery vestige of slayery--the cause Of this
3cursed rebellion.
The discourse was listened to by crowded
shouse and did credit to the head and heart of
5its author. We have copious notes of it, butt
Jour limits prevent making use of them.
THIRD PARISH.
The pulpit, front of the galleries, orchestral
land organ were tastefully draped in mourn
ling. The church was crowded both morning
land afternoon, and the countenances showed
Ihow deeply all felt the nations loss. Rev. Mr..
Walton spoke of the late President in touch
ling language and drew tears from many eyes.
He alluded to the loss the nation had sustain
led both in his morning and afternoon sermonsl
iand made his hearers feel that it is better tol
Igo the house of mourning than to the house of
|feasting. Our space will not allow us to giveI
'even an outline of these able and eloquent dis
courses. They touched all hearts and madel
impressions that viii not soon be forgotten.
FIRST PARISH.
Excellent good taste was displayed in thef
decorations in this church. Rev. Mr.. Hep-E
worth of Boston preached an appropriate dis
course.
ST. STEPHENS CHURCH.
The Easter decorations in this church weret
|put of till next Sabbath. The church wask
beautifully draped in mourning. In the bap-E
tismal font were placed three splendid CallaE
lilies, emblematic of the purity of the life Off
President Lincoln. The Rector of the church, +
Rev. Mr.. Dalton, in the morning alluded toE
the mourniul event in touching terms, and I'M
the evening delivered an appropriate DISCOURSE
upon the subject
ST. LURE's CHURCH.
This church was also draped in mourning.
The Rector, Rev. Mr.. Burgess, alluded to the 4
solemn event in the morning, and read appro-H
pirate portions from the ritual. In the even
ing services appropriate to the solemn occa-
sion were had. 8Ds4
SECOND PARISH.
This edidce was deliberately draped with
flags and mourning. The Pastor, Rev. DIR.
Carruthers, took for bis text the second verseE
OF the 92d Psalm. In abiding to the eventk
'nat mad thrown nation into tears, he re- <
name of Abraham Lincoln has
now passed into history-and when time has
canned down that perturbation, which units
Tor almost all intellectual effort-that name
VIII furnish to our own and to other lands, to b
our own and to other ages, the nucleus around
which all attributes and epithets of greatne q i