Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-07-18
CITY AND DISTRICT.
MIR. Powers Sermon.

Mr.. Powers Sermon.
THE sTAIwARTs AND THE ASsAssINATION-sOME
REMARKS ON THE TENDENCIES OF THE TINES.
A sermon preached by Rev. Mr.. Frederick
Power at the Christian Church. Vermont avenue.
yesterday morning, has attracted wide atten-
ton. both Oh account of Mr. Powers relation to
the President as pastor of the church of which
he is a member and the rather forcibe utter
anees in the discourse. Mr.. Power chose as his
text deuteronomy Xxx. 1919. Having stated
that the proposition of the American people
are essentially christian was proved i'm the uni
yersfl prayer that is going up all over the land.
and i'm TIN, universal adherence of crime called
forth by the attempted assassination he said that
still there were tendencies of the times that
ought to excite the greatest apprehen-
sions. These tendencies as enumerated
to meet the ends of justice by prompt and rigid
execution of the law. the dangerous freedom Of
speech and of the press. disposition ON the
part of society to cOndOne crime and excuse and
even glOrify the criminal and the tendency on
the part of Christian churches and Christian
pastors to preach an emasculated doctrine. In
der the head of freedom Of speech and press. the
preacher said: 1.-The second tendency of the
times which / would notice is freedom of
speech and of the press in the criticism of public
men, which has degenerated into vicious and
dangerous license. To sit high, in our time is
to be lied about. Our public men may be ever
as pure as snOw-but they cannot escape the
tongues of calumny. There are ears to hear
anu there are tongues to utter and repeat every
mean thing. every uni ust thing, every bitter
thing that is printed against the men high i'm
public life. This virus has poisoned the blood of
the whole nation. and it must break out in pas
G0ns, distempers and forms that will do incredible
harm. Thevery course OfsOme OfOur ewspapers
IL such as to infame men like Guiteau to do just
such deeds as his and to think themselves heroes
N tha Of no oil of
I'll the cities of the land the air of this very city for
the past two months. has had much of this very
criticism floating about. Words of public Wifi
cation and detraction rife i'm the last pOlit-
cal campaign, and the very man who had the
manliness to rebuke this spirit and who wrote
to the national committee that he hoped the
campaign of 1880 would be free from this
crime. has fallen martyr at its hands. No
public man, no man connected with any of
the great measures that affect society is safe so
long as these vicious, INSCRIPTIONS and shame
less attacks are made. Slanderers robbers and
murderers ought alike to be held up to public
0etestaton and condemnation and punished
with severe penalties. Men ought to be made
TO know that they are responsible for what they
say, for what they write. for what they print,
when it Is aimed at the leaders Of the people,
and especially at the great head and heart of the
ration. Had there been
NO sTALwART CONTEST
against the prerOgatiTes of the Executive there
would have been no such assault upon the Pres
ident's life Guiteau's crime is but the terrible
product of the vicious shameless, bitter infiam-
matOry attacks INDUCED in persstently by those
who have only personal ends to serve, and who
were dissatisfied with Executive action,
not because it affected the interests of the cOun-
try, but because it was not i'm accord with their
own precious cOunsels. 1t is not the act of an
irresponsible mailman II is not the result of a
fiction or a conspiracy; but, as the lightning
stroke that shiyers the tallest monarch of the
forest Is but the eliminating vengeance of the
cfnra .r.l q H., =
Guiteaus pistol on the I'd of July was but the
final irruptiOn of a diseased political atnOs-
paere. an atmosphere poisoned by the pestilen-
tai yapors from the cesspOOls of faction and
nom the venomous breath of SANDER. 1t is but
the bitter fruit of the spOis SYSTEM it is but the
representative work of the place men. 1t is but
the product of the reckless and defiant and boast
fal murder of law and of the public honor and
OF every attripute OF pubic virtue. to satisfy
self. 1t is but the action of demOniacal
wretch, of brute in human form. impersOnating
in himself the atheistc. the nihilistic the COM
munistic. the anarchic, the thuggish. the pistol
acd-biOed ideas of the old world. 1t is not ma
iona, 1t II not American. it is not the fruit OF
onr jns,i, -tions it is but the work Of terrible
tioo,:~ man i,>damled to his act by cowardly fac
tsonai sn;ri, anderous breath, and if it kills
tSa NAME ..sta1xar, for ali time to come, If il
teaches people to speak 'ersn';any "a ~ tnU rs
who are in authority, If it brean spa" "A :,
power of faction il it heals secu..h.s'n' II
with the dignity of presidential office, with the
necessity and majesty of law, with the glory of
the Union. and, above all. with the Omnipresent
rule of the Divine Providence, then We will say
''let God reign. !" and We will submit"
SERMONS AT OTHER CHURCHES.
At the First Baptist church yesterday morn
ing Rev. DIR. Cuthbert preached a sermon on
''Some Lessons of the Late Tragedy" in which
he alluded To the danger growing out OF political
bitterness and of the infidel atheistic spirit.
Bishop Pinkney preached at Emanuel p. f.
church. Uniontown, referring feelingly to the
President and approving heartily the plan to
celebrate the 5Oth anniversary of the Presidents
birthday A jubilee was held at the Asbury NJ.
r. Church (colored) and an appropriate sermon,
afiudlng to the Presidents safety. was preached
by Rev. MIR. Dimmick. At the Westminster
Presbyterian Church. in which the Tabernacle
CONGREGATION is worshipping, Rev. DIR. W. w.
HICKS, OF the Tabernacle, preached last night
In his prayer special mention was made OF
President Garfield. and in his sermon in allu.
ding TO the attempted assassination he said
That IT was wrong TO regard ii an act OF Proyi
dence, for Providence took no part in SIM and
To attribute this heinous crime to Providence
was 10 give the infidel an opportunity to ask the
Christian, What kind of God have you:" DIR
Hicks took strong grounds agant the dogmas O
The present day. and claimed that it was the
duty OF all to live pure Chistian Hfe
Cor Blows INSTEAD OF wINE.-Saturtlay, i,
the Police Court, Joseph 0nn. Aloysius Water
snd Agnes Helm were charged with assaultin,
N elderly white man named George Mag whs
aneed that Mrs. Helm keeps q wine house. OF
TIE Rock Creek Church road, and last MOnda
witness went to her place for some wine, and sh
reused to give it to him, and ordered him I
Beaye the place; and when he was leaving Omli
s1Euck him, and Waters tripped him down, an
onlin struck him on the head with fence raj
nd Mrs. Helm also struck him with q stick an
bsaf him so badly that he had to be sent to tn
hpital. His head and face yet show marks Z
- assault. After hearing several witnesses 70
TIE defence the court imposed fine OF so O
Ddays in Omlin's case, and dismissed the other