Morning journal and courier., 1881-09-14
Bowed in Prayer.

stiffness of the Sabbath seemed to reign over the city. The banks were closed and the stores seemed to be shut everywhere and prayer services were held at the churches, many hundreds attending. Quiet reigned at the City Hall, and on the highways and everywhere genuine sympathetic feeling for the day and the hour was manifest
 At Center church 8 service of peculiar in- terest was held, and there was an outpouring of people, the church being filled and many standing up. About ,5o0 people were present. The solemnity of the hour was no ticeable. Rev. Dr. Hawes led the exercises, and many other clergymen were present
 After the singing of hymn with much sweetness and expression by the choir, Rev. Dr. Dennen opened by addressing fervent petition to the throne of grace in reference | to the nations chief, asking that a life so precious to the nation be spared if consistent | with the divine will, the large audience | bowed in deep silence and evident deep feel ing. The LorRs Prayer concluded the peti- | tion, the audience joining. Following Dr. I Hawes read appropriate selections from the scriptures pointing to confidence and reliance | in the God of Jacob, and commented forci- bly, on the majesty and power which creates and controls all things.
 Dr. Hawes alluded in feeling words to the ! shock the nation received when it heard of | the attempted assassination and spoke of the ! suspense which has continued since that | time, with hope and fear alternating as the l wires brought the varying changes in the Presidents condition. All hearts were with | the sufferer the nations heart was with the l brave, strong, stricken man. Was there ever parallel to this state of feeling in the worlds | history? How sad how tender, how affect ! ing was the story of the nations watching and trusting and hoping and waiting! How | touching that journey to Long Branch ! How the people sympathized! How still the | multitudes were, expressing every wish to | cheer, feeling as if the brave mans life was | their ife How glad were we all when the l wires said that he had passed the ordeal and | was arrived where the breath of old ocean could fan the sufferer and perhaps bring back the healthy life currents in his fevered veins !! We have learned to love the man. We ! tian manhood. How nobly he looked death 1 in the faee How brave and tender and true | has he been through all Our news of him ! to-day brings new hope. He is alive to-day | and we have tested the power of prayer. He seems to be rising like one from the con fines and shadows of the grave. We pray for \ his life and for all the interests that center | around his life.
 Rev. T. R. Bacon from the platform next led the prayer of the great congregation, be-
 seeching that God would mercifully be | pleased to heal the sufferer and stgive him
 back to his mother" Following came ad-
 mirable remarks from Rev. Prof. Harris. of
 Yale Theological Seminary on the power of
 faith and the care of an overruling Provi-
 dence. After one or two more prayers pr.
 White, formerly of the Howard avenue
 church, whossat at the right of Dr. Hawes on
 the platform, rose and said that he had been
 requested, because recently returned from 8
 five years stay in London, Edinburgh and
 other places in Great Britain, to relate what
 the feeling of the English nation was now to
 this nation, especially respecting our Presi | dent. From the first bulletin telling of the
 terrible wound inflicted on President Garfield
 up to the time of the speaker recent leaving
 on his return home, he heard only words ot
 deepest interest and sympathy everywhere
 that he went He had seen representatives
 from France, Germany, Belgium, Holland ] Switzerland, Italy and other nations, and
 heard their testimony to their peoples great
 interest in our nations suffering and sorrow for our President. His earnest eloquence
 seemed to bring the audience into communion | with our fellow men in those distant lands
 united to us by telegraphic ties. Rev. Mir
 Buck, pastor of the First Methodist church
 Rev. pr. Goodsell, pastor of Trinity Metho dist church, and Rev. Mir. Kelsey, of College street church, followed with fervent prayer
 Opportunity was given and request made fol
 any of the assembly to speak, and wal !: promptly availed of by one'and another til the time of close at 12 o'clock. In all the prayers the wife, the mother, the children | and the faithful friends and attendants of oul } President were most feelingly and carefully
 remembered
 At Calvary Baptist church there was good 5 attendance. Rev. MT. Samson oficiated. He . announced a hymn which was sung by the entire congregation. A selection from the . | scriptures was read by the pastor, and after ! another hymn he delivered 8 feeling address
 on the subject of prayer and Gods faithful
 ness to his promises. Following a prayer
 and confidence meeting was held, lasting un.
 til the noon hour, participated in by the con. . gregation with much fervency of feeling
 | At St. Paul's church large audience was assembled Rev. E. s. Lines officiated The services were opened with the 4o3d hymn. For the psalter the 39th, 90th and 91st } psalms were read The Episcopal prayers ! For ha ood o111 f1o
 with the first to the seventh verses of the
 twenty-frst chapter of Revelations. Mir. Lines made very appropriate and feeling , address in which he referred to the past life of the President and his present office as the
 ruler of fifty millions of people. The speak. CT said that his sickness was the more de- ) I plored because he was the great head of 6 great nation. Had the affair occurred year
 ago, his sickness and his suffering
 would have been just keenly re-
 gretted by his relatives and his near ! circle of friends. But now that he was the , head of the nation, the chief guardian of the people, the sorrow and interest was common
 and called for the united prayers of the peo- pie, whose standard bearer he is. He re marked at this time the absence of all differ
 ences of opinion in matters of national inter , est and in the church of God and the una nimity with which all people, of whatever persuasion, religious or political, united il
 the earnest prayer for the recovery of the President. The address was an able one anG singularly appropriate. The services closed
 with the singing of the 326th hymn.
 At Trinity there was large congregation
 and Rev. Dr. Harwood oficiated. The exer
 cises were deeply solemn and affecting. There
 was very fine singing and music.
 At St. Thomas church Rev. Mir. Jacockl
 oficiated owing to the illness of the pastor Rev. Dr. Beardsley, who is confined to hi
 residence. After an organ voluntary the of ficiating clergyman read the regular morning | service. The lessons were 2d Kings, 2Otl
 chapter, and John, 4th chapter to the 43d I verse. In the service occurred the prayer
 for the sick, in which special reference was
 made to the chief executive of the nation
 After singing the 131st hymn the prayer fol
 All Saints day was given, followed by the , benediction. There was good attendance
 At the union services of the Davenport, St
 John street and First Baptist churches, held
 at the latter edifice on Wooster Place, Rev Dr. Stifer presided. Between five and si1
 hundred people met in the lecture and ad
 joining rooms. The throne of grace was in voked amid deeply solemn feeling, and there was speaking appropriate to the occasion by \ a score of persons and aino,incy hv fha rJpikad