Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1868-12-26

that as far as it is known no President
OF the United States since the days Of
Washington has been Il commandment
of the church. John Adams WIS the
representative OF the liberal communi-
ty of his day: Jefferson was styled a
free tinker An attempt was made
when Jefferson was Il young man to
make the Episcopal Church the estab-
lished religion of Virginia. John lie
land, a travelling Baptist minister,
preached a sermon in the presence of
Jefferson, on which he called the in
cestuons connection of the church and
State" This sermon converted Jeffer-
son to that doctrine His persistent
opposition to d state religion caused
him 10 be stigmatized as an infidel.
Mrs. Madison was a compliment at
the Episcopal Church.
Her husband was not Monroe was
a member of an Episcopal parish, but
not a commitment John Quincy Adj
ans, though member of Unitarian
parish in Massachusetts. held a pew III
the Second Presbyterian Church in
Washington, OF which he was trustee,
and there he worshipped until his
death In violent SNOW storm / saw
hir Uadiug TO church, one Sunday,
with the snow up to his loius, and he
was one of the seven persons who com
posed the congre alton that morning
lie never communed in the church
General Jackson was regular attend
ans on Sunday mornings. He wor-
shipped in the Second Presbyterian
Church till his quarrel with the pastor
about Mrs. Eaton. He then left for the
4I-2 street church and took his cabinet
with him. He always came early and
entered his paw, which was on the
right side Of the church as he entered
Earnest and deycut attention he gave
to the sermon. Ii was his custom, ut
the close of the sermon. to rise il the
pew, make very courteous bow to the
minister and then walk ont, the uldi-
ence waiting in their pews till he had
reached the yestibule.
Van Buren's Fl me Church ut Kin
derkook was Reformed Dutch At
Washington. when he went to church
he attended St. Johns Episcopal in the
morning. Mrs. Polk was devout and
earnest christian woman, belonging to
the Presbyterian Church. Mr.. Polk
accompanied his family every Sunday
morning to the -Four and-a-half street
church. Mrs. Polk usually attended
the Second Presby ,eriau Church in the
afternoon, where She held pew.
The President seldom accompanied
her at the second service. General
Taylor was not professor Of religion.
When he attended he sat in the Presi-
dents pew al ST. Johns. President
Pierce was member OF Congrcga-
tional Society in Concord, n. H., but
moi of the Church. lie was very regu-
Ian in his attendance at the Presby teri
an Church in Washington Oh the morn
Of each Sabbath. Buchanan attended
the small Presbyteri Church ON L
street, near the White House This
was his religious home during his long
Senatorial life. He was not member
of the church He came to worship
usually on foot and unattended. His
pew was on the side, about two-thirds
Of the way from the door. He usually
walked up the isle with ii cat-like step,
went to the extreme end of the pew,
curled himself up in the corner, and
seldom moved till the service closed.
He rarely spoke TO any one, and has
tened from the church to the White
House. Mrs Lincoln was acommu-
nieant.at the New York avenue Pres
byterian Church.
Mr.. Lincoln was not. But he was a
regular attendant at worship, Johnson
seems to have no religious home, but
FATHER Inclined to the Lutherans.
General Grant is not professor of re-
ligion. He is trustee of the National
Methodist Church at Washington, and
is frequent attendant on the preach
ing of that church. Cor, Boston
Journal.
In the case of DIR. Brennan, in New