Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-01-08
AN ADDRESS
nEy. MOSES D. H0GE, DID j.
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MEt. MUSES. u. hOGE1 I'.U
IN THE SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
RICHMOND, VA, DECEMBER II, 1885,
THE DAY APPOINTED BY THE GOVERNOR
FOR THE COMMUNICATION OF THE DEATH
OF THE HON. JEFFERSON DAVIS.
The service of the Presby terians was held
at the Second Presbyterian Church. con-
Quoted by DIR. Moses D. Hoge. Long be-
| fore the hour for the opening of the services
| had arrived eager feat we're pressing into
the church, and by 12 o'clock, the hour for
the address to begip, the spacious edifice
| was crowded from f or to dome, and hun
dreds of people stood in the aisles and
around the doors, such was their eagerness
| to hear the address. 1t was estimated that
more than thousaud people went away,
| not being able to obtain admission into the
church. r. E. Lee Camp attended in a
| BODY and in unifoiM. The ministers from
the other Presbyterian churches-the Rev.
Messrs. Stewart, Cannon, Fair, TnrDbull
and Campbell-occupied seats in the pulpit.
The Rev. MI Stewart gave out the psalm,
sOur God, our help in ages past;' Rev. Mr..
Turnbull recited the Lords Prayer; Rev.
DR.. Fair read the Goth Psalm: and Rev. DR..
Campbell offered the comprehensive prayer.
The Rev. DR.. Read occupied comfortable
chair on the platform beneath the pulpit.
Promptly at 12 O'Clock the services began.
and, after the opening exercises, DR.. HOge
arose and spoke as follows:
Somewhat weared, as l am, with the
number of special services which have de-
volved on me of late, it was my desire and
effort to be relieved of the one now assign
ed to me. But the cnnstraint laid on me
to perform it was one could not properly
resist. have probably been called to un-
dertake this office because am one of the
few pastors in this city who resided here
during the civil war, and became circum-
stances brought me into personal associa-
ton with the President of the conquered
Confederacy. / heard his first address to
the Richmond people from the balcony of
Spotswood Hotel, after the removal of the
capital from Montgomery. / stood beneath
the ominous clouds, in the dismal rain of
shat memorable day, the 22nd of February.
1862, when, from the platform erected near
the Washington monument in the Capitol
SQUARE, after prayer by Bishop Johns, he
delivered his inaugursl address, in clear but
qrayely modulated tones. have ridden
with him en horseback along the lines of
fortification wnich guarded the city have
had experiences of his courtesy in his house
and in his Office / w&s with him in Dan.
vile after the evacuation, until the surren-
der at Appomattox Court house; and while
l never aspired to intimacy with him, my
opportunities we're snch as enabled me to
learn the personal traits, which characteriz-
ed him as man, as well as the official and
public acts which ma ked his adninistra-
tion and wbich row farm part OF the his
tory of the country.
For reasons like these account for the
invitation with which am honored bv my
brethren aud by rny c'i;nrades OF Lee Camp
to addrt IS this great -sembly to-day.
Aud now permit ne to say word with
regard to the kind OF service which deem
appropriate to the hour aud to the place
where we meet.
This is memoranl service, and not an oc.
casion for the discuss on of topics which
would be appropriate elsewhere and at an
other tire.
Every congregation assembled in our
churches in these Southern States to-day
forms part Of the vast multitude which
unites in mind and hort with the solemn
assembly in New Orleans, where, 10 the
presencs of the dead, the funeral services
are IN progress at this hour. There, all that
J is mort tender and most impressive centres
and 4 becomes all who CON prr -.