New-York tribune., 1881-09-12
SERMONS ON THE PRESIDENT.
THE NATIONS SORROW AND JOY.

| The Rev. Robert COllyer occupied the pulpit
OF the Church of the Messiah in East Thirty fourhs.
yesterday for the first time his vacation. large
congregation present. The church was handsomely
trimmed around the chance with flowers Before the
Mr. Coyer prayed fervently for the President and
for his family The subject Of the sermon "The Ma
toms Sorrow and Joy and the Isaiah, ill., S:
He was wounded for transgression he bruised
for our iniqutes; the chastisement of peace
upon him. The sermon was substantially as follows
We meet for the first time after our long parting my
dear friends, in the shadow of great and it is
no private for the whole Nation with
1t fell on just saying goodbye to seek
rest in the mountains and by the We carried it with
us and it was before wherever went II lay the
summer woods and on the summer II the
password in every place. I went to your
Old pastor and my dear friend amid the Berkshire hills
and the frat question not "IIow are youl" but
How is the President 2" At little port in Massachu
sets saw fishing smack which had been out for two
weeks come sailing in, and not waiting till they reached
the shore they hailed some small boats lying
Dor, not with questions of home and friends but with
HOW Is the President ?" went to church and every
where the burden of the prayer was God save the
Presdent' And the sobbcd in its solemn strain,
ana the people wept went to oil friend of the
Presidents aud he showed the letter written by
him before he was shot down 1t was full OF an almost
boysh interest in and anticipation Of the journey he was
ABOUT to make Yet there strain in It. IT,
ALL there had stolen into the sunlight soul fore
bodng of the coming calamity and feeling that the f-
ture was in the hands OF God
The sympathy with the President ia os wide os tbe
world The stately homes OF England are darkcned
by the same sorrow that shadows yours and mine
While we are yet sleeping eagerly to their pa
pers over there to read encouraging news the
ieSeh or look into each others eyes for hope which
they do not find Never think since the world BEGAN
mas "re peen such universal They speak of ii
on th' Rhne and by the Euprates The shepherds talk
of in the Australian wilds it ia mentioned on the
pans or Nlncveh and by the ruins of old Babylon 1t
he fouu for
deep interest. at least people First, our
love for the President second sacreness of his Of
nee as our Federal head third, the manly way in which
he has borne his suflcrngs. Emperors and Kin
are separated from the rest of mankind by
gulf OF form and family; but our President
srang from us anl is of He his way To his great
ofce by the force of his manness and his intellect with
no thought of breaking from the old life because OF the
splcndor Of the new; that he could, like n former
Senator of state II were necessary take 10 the
field again and handle the scythe and the plough he
been naughty and proud aud forgotten that he sprang
from the people we still should have sorrowed for him
but not as now.
ia true that. since the days o. Washington We have
made the position Of Chief Executive "A plory where all
the spite and spume of party feeling vented In
the theory ~ our Government II is great
dign In practice has been adegradation We invade
his home we shake his hand til swollen so that he
cannot use il; PRIV into his most secret affairs In
and no must touch IT A. Such sacred
ness dwcis IN the person of KingMagstrate r. it
small thing that hundreds OF thousands have laid
down their lives in the preservation of the Government
he represents, ana cementei II with blood And
come comprehend the sacrllcge of assauiiing the
Chrf MAGISTRATE not only IN the assassin hut in the
train Of THOUGHT and feeling that made such thing pos
sihe We have 10 face The fact thar " he wounded
How tcpdcry the mother rc.ards her son. Her boy
WINS her boy stl President though he was and writin
bur hc would write to his mother. How manfuily hc
has kept himself from saying word against the man
who assaulted him lie ha- not said word far as
can be caned to sway me dcicatcy poised of tie
man But one word from that dricntcly beating heart
he done and the Nation disgraccd. The President was
Non ''" NOT had 3" ,rS ny 'r Ge pS%Ga but by the
him whom hy our ballots We had made the
Sned The ,r,d"%s %d Of ,h ne cn%Irn The
aud he sacred Office of Chief Magistrate was de-
graded. But we can look mp through these dark days
nud the shadows passing. W. trust he viii he re-
stored to u.s. and we III remember In The days come
see how good thing s for the nations of the
Is ~ dcspoti~n tempered by assassuation" We can
not have men say to this Nation that tisa Republic
have been a-snssindtcd. | have heard many of NV
-pcnk,rs say tins not the curse OF God
pie nearer to God cannot it this lesson can
Nation has uned that has fallen upon IT,
Of IN" THIS is not a land OF peace; it is a
In hir bedroom and the boy, on the sglitcsi
have proved dat in cv lie at least n the 0%okcr kef
right No Quaker ever shoots, and Quaker ever is
should guard the safe Of pistols ms We ar the f % WE n"
pOiSOns. 1t IL the brutality that from
sion Of weapons that does the harm Again we sholJ
make the lie ~ our President sacred tho lie of
Queen Emp, The fact that have elected him
President should c"the him with all the sacrctiness a
nation could give him. II the wr,trI
had carried olt his intent know mst |
what would have happened. Ministers w9uIJ
have To dim aud told him that II he cccpcd their
plan of salvation lie would straight Ia Heaven ana
would have out 10 the world that hr WINS waLu,
In Paradise while his face blackrnIug o the acoGd
such proceedings are lihri Oh religion and IN
common sense As u man sowcth. shall he renn
That is good scripture and ! believe il In
no country should lte be so safc "A. i'm tbis
lite sacred IA that the President When MAJ
time comes, may sit ia peace under their own vine
aud tx tree Then
The OF most shall rctfu realm In o
And the kindly ear Ia shall sumDcr wrapped in
Al the close al the sermon tAc SAN. nv
request of Mr. CoiJ er, the hymn beginning God biess
native land"