Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-06-09
The Bridal Sunday.
PRESIDENT AND Mrs CLEVELAND ATTEND IN
OAKLAND CHURCH.

Correspondence Philadelphia Press.
Deer Park, June Good Pastor Foulke
and his deacons, of the Garrett Memorial
Church. at Oakland, could not imagine this
morning Why so many of the congregation
volunteered for service in the cheir. The
church has a handsome tenor with black
moustache, and so there is never dearth OF
fair coptraltos and sopranos, but this morning
it seemed as if half of the eyes OF the
Garrett Memorial flock wanted TO lift up
their godly beat from the singers seat.
Ii WAS III O'Clock and the reinforced choir
was pouring out the cheering notes OF Hymn
l47, Laden with Guilt and Full of Fear,
when a subdued commotion on the front steps
betokened the Presidents arrival, and all
eyes within the cramped walls of streaky
sIucco, strayed from the hymn books to the
patch OF sunlight at the door which was oc-
cupied at that moment by the bulky form OF
the Chief Magistrate. A band of white tape
had been tied across the entrance of the sec
ond pew back from the rostrum on the right
hand of the aisle; the President doomed
up in the doorway it was quickly dropped
by a watchful deacon, and the procession be-
gan up the aisle to the agitaIed music Of the
choir, held together in spots by the oreanist,
President his foxv-ooking Secretary and the
latter's dark-faced wife, who had come up at
4. 30 o'clock in the morning; there were ex-
Senator and Mrs. Davis, and j. w. Davis,
President CARROTS man Friday, and Miss
Lizzie Elkins; there was, moreover, Post
master and ex Congressman Hamill acting as
escort, but all eyes were on none of these,
but on her who, like Tennyson's Maud, came
to the village church and sat by pillar
well, not of stone, but of stucco 'lcily
regular, faulty faultless, splendidly new"
was Tennyson's Maud when she came to
church. But none of these was Mrs. Cleve-
land as she swept up the aisle behind her
heavy lord and master, seeming to overtop
him by head with her willowy stature.
"Incedtt regina!" She certainly walked
queen on her first public appearance since
her marriage. There was half smile on her
colorless face, giving a suggestion that risi-
biity is a very apprecisble attribute of the
new mistress of the White House. She wore
gown of black silk, with train, a shoulder
wrap of beaded jet and corn-colored straw
bonnet with white feathers Coming next to
the President, she led the advance into the
pew, while he stood at the entrance, and thus
throughout the service the Lannon'S and Mrs.
Davis were between the bridal pair. The
they were seated the choir sung: 'Flee as a
bird to yon mountain"
Mrs. CLEvELAND's NAMEsAKE.
In the crowd that thronged the choir seats
was happy papa, nervous mamma and al
expressonless blue-china-eyed baby. 1t was
too young to give any indication of its sex t.
the eyes of so recent a bachelor as MIR
Ciev leland, and the thought was written all
over the burrows about the Presidents's eyes
"This brat is to be my namesake." Never
theless, when Domino Foulke baptised the
child after the choir had sung Hymn $40
Behold what condescendng care" he
named it "Francis,' and explained after the
service that the name had been picked out fol
two weeks. Then the dominic, square.
bearded little man with his voice full of the
country preachers regulation staccatos
prayed, cribbing a little from the liturgy OF
the prelatists, while the President sat Dol,
upright with closed eyes. and Mrs. Cleve.
land bent her shapely shoulders as sne learned
to do in chapel just short year ago.
Dominic Fouike preached an argument fol
the truth of the resurrection, from ST. Paul.
First Epistle to the Corinthians 'The Cos
pei which preached unto you, and by whict
also We are saved" 1t was a we'll rounded
collection of "now thens," "thirdlys," such
as every generation of Dominic Foulkes VI
| to the present have been edifying American
Presbyteriaus with for the last two hundred
years. AT the end of it the preacher said
| with his eye on the presidential pew "Goc
grant that all who hear me in the end ma,
be saved by the gospel you have received.
The PRESIDENTS CONTRIBUTION.
Tall white-haired Ex-congressman Hamill
hn 10 oil NafhnHisf 81,
rose and said with the apparent purpose o
salving any one spot that is calvinistic on thu
spiritual cuticle of the President: I'VE thanl
thee!' The locGl preacher prayed for th
presence of our chief magistrate. Nv
| pray" implored the postmaster, that he b,
continued our chief magistrate. While mil
lions of supplications are descending for hi
welfare, we are glad to unite with them. {
God, bless his companion"" The doubl,
decked choir sang Majestic Sweetness Sit
Enihroned;" the plate was passed round b,
the handsome tenor and the President put
So bill in it, SO crisp and new that it mus
have been the very last that Secretary Man
ming turned out before he accepted bis leav
of absence. Mrs. Cleveland left all th
singing to the reinforced choir.
| As soon as the party had left the church
which they did as soon AS the service wa
over, relic hunters swooped down in the pew
| and the Garrett Memorial Church was poors
| by the leather-back hymn books which tn,
| President and his wife had used. An hou
| and half was consumed by the three car
riages in driving back, although it is les.
| than eight miles from Oakland to Deer Parl
even by the roundabout road.
| Ever since the election the democrat
have been frantically telling the mugwumEl
to go of somewhe and flock by themselves
but now that another election is beginning t,
loom up, they hope that the magwumps may
be again used for filling. And so they tall