Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-04
The President.

The President The News in this City-AIlusions to the | Sad Event fin the Churches-A Sermon mt Wooster Place Church-The Intense Public Feeling-Rev. MT, Kelsey on the l Subject-Remarks by Rev. Father Slo- cum.
 The sad news from Washington on Satur- day morning brought universal sadness and expressions of sorrow and grief throughout the nation. nation mourned the attrocious deed. No more intense feeling has been manifest in this city since the wires flashed the news of Lncoln's assassination The first report was that the President was dead, and was heard with profound emotion The later news that he was alive and not mor- tally wounded was like a balm to distressed people. The newspaper bulletins were soon issued and surrounded, and at the newspaper and telegraph offices came an increasing tide of anxious solicitous enquiries. Men of high degree and humble life and station stood shocked and aghast at this terrible revela- | tion, but all hearts were relieved some what from painful pressure when it was heard, what occurred to most as the true solution; ! that the assassin had evidently acted for | brain over 8 fancied grievance, and that | therefore no political significance was | coupled with the conce ption of the atrocious crime. The man Guiteau was in this city ! number of months ago and hired Peck's Grand Opera House to deliver lecture in | reply to Bob Ingersoll. Nobody had heard of Charles Giteau, and nobody cared what he thought of Bob Ingerson or any other person, he being an unknown adVenturer. | The same venture had been tried by Giteau ] in other cities and as here he had empty benches, and generally left town with an un- paid board bill. The intense feeling in this city over the dreadful news made rapid sale for the extras issued. A large number of extra CoURIERs put on the street at halt past twelve were sold in less than an hour | The assassination was, of course, the one ao- l sorbing topic and until an hour so late that further information was not attainable, | people remained about the center waiting with deep feeling to hear of the Presidents s condition. The crowd at the center Satur- day night was extensive. The exciting news had touched the deep chords of feeling and | sympathy and brotherhood which makes this liberty loving people united people. Deep interest attached also to hear from the sweet, loving and tender woman, the wife of the President, to whom the blow was so ter rible, and to hear if the iron horse had in deed borne her so swiftly and surely that she 1 would reach the President before forever too late.
 Yesterday, in all the pulpits, the deep national and patriotic current of sympathy and emotion was referred to, either in deeI I and touching reference to the foul deed, ol ' in prayer for the wounded chief of the na ton. At Center church, in his prayer at the morning service, Rev. Mir. Whittlesey from the West fervently prayed for MT. Garfeld's recovery. At all the Episcopal churches the sad event was noticed in the prayer for the sick. Rev. Dr Hawes made a reference tc the calamity, and in beautiful words spoke o1 the event in connection with the assassina tion of Lincoln, the matter fitting in very ap propriately in his discourse, which was in reference to the Christians hope and trust At the Summerfeld M. E. church Rev. Mir Livingstone prayed most earnestly for the restoration of tke President to health. Rev Dr. Dennen alluded to the event in fitting . |
 ranged with reference to the national ami
 versary.
 REV. DR. STIFLER PREACHED
 a thrilling discourse at Wooster Place Bap
 tist church. His subject was The Assassi ) nation of Garfeld''; text, IT Samuel, I, 14 , 15, "And David said unto him, vast thor not afraid to stretch forth thine hand to de | r A~I
 called one of the young men and said, g | near and fall upon him and he smote hin l that he died'' The reverend gentleman l drew from the theme the lesson of the hour
 the respect and reverence due to him whom l God has made ruler over any people. Thougl ] Saul was man who had done evil-th speaker here explained the text, he wa 8 to be honored as long as he was the head o 3 the nation, Dnvid's magnanimity in his i'm
 mediate and condign punishment of tn : Amalekite who had slain the king, his rival . and brought the royal insignia to David ant . Dayid's great respect for the Lords an nointed, were enforced He proceeded:
 "How dastardly and wicked, then, wa t the conduct of this man Giteau, who woul !. attempt to destroy the life of the chief magis 8 trate of our country. That which is blackes
 in his bloody deed is not alone that he ha g attempted to rob the nation of it's head, an
 make him first by bullet whom the natiol a has placed second by the ballot. His wicked g ness is not simply that he has had no regar l. for the tender relation of husband and wifi o and father and children. Mrs. Garfield is il
 a lofty position, but the tender and yearninl
 
 ? The children have the same affection fo
 him that any children possess in parent The aged mother loves, oh, how tenderly, tn | boy that was true to her in his poverty
 whom she in loving pride has seen pass b. , his own energy from the lowest to the high ! est station in the land. The raven gloss o the assassin's sin is not alone that he woult
 deprive the nation of it's head, the aget
 mother of 8 son, the convalescsnt wife of | husband and the children of a father, bu 1 that he would smite Gods minister, that he 6 l a wretched man, would undo the work of
 holy God. He would pluck down whom a | God has exalted, 'tfor the powers that be ar
 ordained of God; and of the ruler, it i
 said, He is the minister of God to thee"
 There are three things which we ma.
 proftably consider here:
 I. First, the divine right of the man in au
 thority. In ages past the doctrine was SC
 abused by tyrants and impostors that 1t fel
 into contempt. It was made an excuse fo
 self-will, for cruelty and oppression. unti
 men would no longer stop to consider tn
 truth lying underneath it, but rejected thu term and with it the truth. But the proper
 ly appointed ruler has divine rights,-right
 given him by virtue of his offce,-not thu
 right to do any wrong, not the right that be
 longs to the deity, but the right of tenure O.
 office for the time he is chosen, the right tt
 execute that office for the good of the gov
 erned, and abose all the right of divine ap
 pointment. The radical error here tha
 Christian men should resist by all theil might, is that he is a creature of the people or creature of party. He is minister of God. The speaker here detailed how Saul was appointed and David enlarging elo
 quently Continuing, he said, Here is thu
 wickedness of unscriptural divorce and thu wrong of many of our divorce laws, tha
 they do not recognize Gods agency and ap pointment in the matter of marriage. Whel two properly qualified persons stand before the minister and ratify their choice of eacl other, it is not he that unites them. It i
 not he that makes them one. It is God' voice that says they two shall be one flesh.