Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-07-11
CITY AND DISTRICT.
Prayers and Thanksgiving.

SUNDAY DISCOrRSES on THE Observation-Disclosures
LESSONS TAUGHT By THE EVENT.
In nearly every church in the District yester-
Gay some portion of the services were given up
to prayers for the Presidents recovery and
thanksgiving for his continued Improvement.
In many of the churches the attempted assassi-
nation was made the theme of discourse.
THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
At the Church of the Disciples, president
Garfeld's church. DIR. b. Hinsdale. president of
Hiram College. ofciated. In the course of his
remarks. referring to the assassin. Guiteau he
said: AFTER careful reading of what has been
published in regard to the woud-be assassin of
the President. and putting together and analyZ-
ing what has been said of his history and char
acter. it is plain to my mind and to every other
understanding mind that this would-be assas-
sin is a man of loose and iil-iointcd principles
OF marked and singular spiritual arrangement
and moral depravity. In these two facts will be
found the causes that led to the commission of
the deed we all so deeply deplOre. If We do not
see that the prevalence of high political feeling
and factiOnal political excitement has furnished
one Of the conditions and exciting causes that
have led to this transaction, it would imply
rare indifference Oh our part to political mat
ters."
OPPOSED TO HELPING TRAMPS.
Rev. Geo. o. Little pastor of the Assemblies
Presbyterian church. said that during a pastor
ate of over fifteen years he had been called upon
frequently to give material aid to such impOstOrs
as Guiteau was. He intilnated that he and many
Others of the cloth had about determined to
strongly refuse all such applications hereafter.
unless they are backed up 10y vouchers from some
respectable and responsible source.
LOOMING Up IN THE LIGHT.
Rev. Rush. r. Shipper. of All Souls Church.
poke on the Revelation of Judgment" from
Romans H. s.. during which, he said:-In this
revealing OF judgment now the Presidents char
aeter looms up in the light. His brave wife is
already saipted in the American calendar. His
own brave battle with death only disclOses the
resources of his majestic manhood. His superb
stamina. won by obedience to the laws of health
puts premium upon temperance His pure.
clean and faithful life. full of love to God and
man and the sure hope OfinmOrtality gives him
courage to face death unfiinchin9. No mortal
ever had such opportunity to read his own Obit-
nary as lie in the scrapbOOk now preparing.
EFFECTS OF THE CRIME.
Among other conclusions drawn by Rev Geo
" Leech, of the 4th-street NJ. E. church. in his
sermon on the assassination yesterday was such
an irresistible and general impression Of tie
power and extent of Gods care has never been
made by any single event since Christ died: and
that good and great thing had been accom-
piished in thoroughly reuniting both sections of
the country.
MAwKISH sESTINENTALTrY
Rev. DR.. Harrison closed an eloquent sermon
from the text. s. Righteousness exalteth ma
non. but sin is reproach to any people," by
saying that the public mind ought to correct the
errors growing out of the civil service system
and that false sympathy. mawkish sentiment
Atty aid the cravin" for criminal notoriety must
&c suppressed. Crime must be punished yinor-
Ously. and law indicated
THE MISSION OF ANOTHER JUDAS
Rev. DIR. Sunderland at the First PRESBYTERIAN
Church. preached from the text: For the mys-
terry Of iniquity has already worked In closing
he said that from the hideous cloud of the last
week CLEANS OF light are beginning to shine and
IN this highest sense who can say but that
another Judas was used to wake the people to
new life and nob!er virtue.
STRONG LAW NEEDED
Rev. j. c. Butler. of the Memorial lutheran
Church. at the close of his discourse on ..SOme
Lessons of the Attempted Assassination said:
The sickly sentinentalism which makes heroes
OF criminals and gives men a happy send off to
glory. with the blood of their victims vet stain
ing their unrepentant souls. must be rebuked
The too common plea of insanity when men are
simply fre2Zied by passion or by liquor must not
shield the guilty. Stronger law is yet needed to
protect especially the leaders in the battle for
truth and righteousness. and an impartial en-
forcement of law. Executive clealency must
not interpose To save the guilty
THE CATHOLIC CHURCHES
The Litany of the Saints was said for the PreSi-
dents recovery in all the Catholic churches al
the IL o'clock mass In several of the ciiurche.
special references TO tie President were made
by the pastors. and the congregations We're
earnestly requested 10 remember him in their
prayers.