Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-08-29
Prayers for the President.

SERVICES IN THE DISTRICT CHURCHES-ELOQUENT
ALLUSIONS TO THE "CRISIs OF THE HOUR"
Yesterday prayers were offered In all the
churches for the recovery of the President. and
thanksgiving was offered for the removal of the
immediate danger which threatened the Presi-
dent during the close Of last week.
THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH,
on Vermont avenue, was unusually crowded
yesterday morning. The pastor, Mr.. Power. Of
fered fervent prayer, and took as text for his
remarks John, xviii, IL: "Then said Jesus unto
Peter, Put up thy sword into the sheath; the
cup which my father hath given me, shall
| not drink it?'" Speaking of the great
topic of the hour he said: 1.-The last eight Lord s
days had been sadder than the church had
known in long years Of its history. The church
OF God had hardly seen eight sadder first days
of the week. The Christian President revered
the Lords day. 1t afforded marked relief. He
walk with God. On opening his eyes last Lords
day he said: This is the Lords day: | have
great reverence for it. Would not God grant
that the present Lords day be the beginning OF
renewed life to him:" In closing an eloquent
sermon he said: I'm the present trial would
that God remove the cup without compelling
the drinking of the dregs. Whatever the result
should be, the cup OF affection had already been
drunk to bitterness. If it was His will it would
be removed before drinking the dregs." The
III U N.
when several members ofthe congregation made
snort addresses.
REV. DAVID WILLS, DID,,
chaplain U.S.A., preached at the Mt. Vernon NJ E.
church south yesterday morning, on Thoughts
on the Present Crisis" He said that never had
the benefits of affction been more signaly Illus
trated than in the case of the hOnored and re-
vered President of the United States. His sud-
den prOstration and protracted sufferings had
no rf of no fof Io Il
caused it to beat with broader sympathies and
l0ftfer aspirations. Personal preudices and sec
tional ascerbities had been held in allowance to
higher and better impulses and ideas. What
the wisdom OF statesmen and the elOquence of
orators could not have effected by years of eff
Tort had been achieved in day by the agency or
great sorrow. Such union of PRAYER had
never characterized the people Of this CONT
nent.
REV. A. FLORADUS STEELE.
OIL ST. Marks p. E. church, in his sermon yester-
day morning said: ''Al sympathize with that
loving and brave wife who sits by the bedside of
the sick President. All share in less or greater
measure her emotions; she is not alone Me-
thinks as call before me the image of that WO-
man that she represents the whole nation. and
this Is my justification for making mention of
her in this public manner. She with her in
tense personal feeling. embodies the best and
tfuest and most tender sentiments of the whole
peorie would that we were all as noble and
as devOut as she. l would that we all had such
faith. She believes. even in this extremity. that
GOd Will hear her prayer and answer it accord
ing TO her hope. And yet | cannot doubt there
is mingled with her prayers the refrain. or at
least the spirit that says, Not my will. but
Thine be DONE"
REV. DR.. CHESTER.
pastor of the Metropolitan p F., Church made
eloquent illusions to the President The PRAYER
full anxiety of the people found expression in the
pulpits OF all the churches in the city.
THE CATHOLIC CHURCHES
Rev. Father Walter pastor of St. Patrick's
Church, celebrated the O'Clock mass yesterday
morning for the Presidents recovery. At 9
O'Clock mass he requested the PRAYERS of the
congregation for the same purpose. In other
catholic churches prayers were likewise offered
The Feeling in Other Cities.
EAGERNESS FOR THE NEwS-SPECIAL SERVICES
OF PRAYER.
The condition of the President is in other cities
as in Washington, the absorbing tonic every
where. The bulletin boards are scanned eagerly.
ana in the churches yesterday throughout the
Union special prayers were offered.
Prayers We're offered in the churches in Ports
mouth n. H., yesterday for the Presidents rec0y-
cry. The services at some of the churches were
with special reference to the sad
occasion. and were peculiarly solemn Rev.
Mr. Talmadges sermon in BROOKLYN YESTERDAY
which was on the subject of the Presidents i'll
ness, was listened to by six thousand persons
He deprecated any attempt to interfere with the
legal punishment OF Guiteau. At Plymouth
church also, and at other churches, both in New
York city and Brooklyn, there was reference to
the Presidents case in the services.
In nearly all the Philadelphia churches yester-
day the subject of the Presidents illness was re-
ferred to- and fervent prayers were offered for
MS recovery. Special services of PRAYER were
held in the afternoon for therestoration of Pres-
dent Garfield. One meeting was held in the lee
ture-roOm attached to the old St Philips p. f.
church. and another in Association Hall. Ger
mantown. At Boston copies of the successive
bulletins were sent to a number of the principal
whose pastors read them from the
pulpits. Copies of them were also sent out into
the suburbs in various directions where the
cheering news they contained was most thank
fully received. In all the Protestant churches
In Montreal prayers We're offered for the re-
covery of President Garfield. At the annual
meeting OF the Duchess county On " Peace
Society held near POughkeepsie Saturday and
yesterday resolutions of sympathy for Mrs Gar
held We're adopted. A dispatch from Lake
MarOncOok, Me-. says that the Presidents cOndi-
ton gave an added solemnity to the SUNDAY ex-
ercises at the greenback camp meeting held
there.