The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1897-01-12

."-"f NAtAAAAty MAN NuNNMl uN
40 agents OF al leldlng hotels and
lised TO accept their hospitality dur.
us 'he Two weeks preceding his an
'usuIailoh The various Methods,
huiehsa here also begged him TO &C
isp' pew and worship With them.
10 ~i such solicitations Major MeKln-
~ replied: "old friends are the bast
ulehaa' ana will register and Wor-
sup a. heretofore" Consequently he
VII 20 10 tAe aAns hotsl when he
zones to WasAihston and he will BE-
some esnnunleAAt Of Foundry
Ihufch
The majority OF our presidents have
sssn regular attendants At sunday uor-
'h'p General Washington, while
ffesidshi. attended Fsnerally the Epis-
'opal churches Of Philadelphia. John
Adams, The first Of our washinstoa
PRESIDENTS. Unitarian In belief. found
no church Of bic denomination Ia the
aelds out Of which the capital was rls.
ing and attached 10 none Of the ortho-
doa congregations here. Ieiersona
creed Is contained IN the fourteenth
article Of the Virginia bill Of rights
hfalson attended ST. Johns church. a.
did Monroe. but IN 1919 the yesiry OF
Chr'f church. East washington. Com
mcdors rinslsy chairman. Appropriated
pcW 40 ! 10 the use OF the president
" ne United States. Mr.. Monroe. 20
reply requested tho commodore % "ex-
Pres 20 che ysr;ry h's thanks TO- their
polite attention" John Quincy Adams
vas one ~ the founders o. the old unl.
tartan church. AZ the building now used
by the police court. sHi attended ssry-
Ices there General Jackson attended
the Four-and-a-half Street Preshy,e-
rIan chureh-the same now attended
by Mr. Cleveland-thls church having
been erected during his administration.
Tie was ALEC an attendant a. g. Johns
shurch Mr. Van Buren, attended S.
Johns church. General william Hen
~ Harrison. during hts short term. At
tended the = Street Presbyterian
church. whose congregation having dls.
posed 81 their church 10 be WIZARDS
hall. are nov a portion Of the York
Avenue church CONGREGATION Mr.. Ty-
Yer. observing virginia customs. Nas
an attendant ~ 81. Johns Protestant,
Episcopal church. Mr POLK attended
both the ? Street aad the -Four ant-a-
half Street Presbyterian churches
General Pierce attended ST. Johns
church and the r Street Presbyterian
churches Mr. buchanan attended ST.
Johns church hr Lincoln gave an
impetus 10 the New York Avenue
church By takiHg a pew there Mr..
Johnson Kept Psv In So JONAS
church. General Garfield was enc OF
the founders q he Vermont Avenue
Christian church. from whose pulpit
be- had sometimes preached Mr. Ar
thur occupied q 81 lohns pew. and
NJ. Cleveland. IN sitting under the
minlstratlons 81 the Four-and -a-Aali
Street church pulpit renewed the era
oi Jackson IN this regard President
BENJAMIN Harrison attended the Pres
hytorlan Church % the Covenant. on
Connecticut avenue. opposite the En-
basly O.; Great Britain. a fashionable
church. In the most fashlo1ablc part
% town.
70 thus appears that eiyat oi our
presidents attended the Protestant
Episcopal church a. commandments
Warrington being the hrit and Ar
thur the last OF that denomination In
the chief mAgisiracy.
Andrew Jackson. william Henr,
Harrison. Abraham Lincoln. James X
Polk. Grsver Cleveland and benjamin
Harrison we're the siI Presbyterian
Who have sccupled the white House.
Only sss neIber Of the Christian
or Campbsliite church. Mas ever occu
pied the white HOUSE. aad that va
james A. 0srheid
II this country we're dehomlnatiena
IN lts political aivlsioas. ve shsuit
soon have demands for recognition b,
che ConsresstloaAlis,s. BsP,is,s. Qua
kers. SHAKERS. LulAerahs. unltst
brethren. Catholics. ana etAer religion
srEanltations. aons 81 whom Aas eve
yet besa favored With national reeos
nltien. FortuAatsly. however. such
demand will never be made In tAls r.
public. No one Of eur presidents ha
ever been asmiaated or elecied heeaus
- his religious beliefs or afnllatlons
No such tea, viii ever h made.
In snly one instance has the suhisc
81 religion Affected a presidential slec
ten In the history Of the republic. AM
that vas In 1854. James q. Blaine. on
Of the most magnetic and popular o
Statesmen and politicians. failed o
election because Of q series OF peculia
circumstances; and yet. the mo7t 20
tential element adverse TO him was IN
injection Of a brief suggestion OF re
lgi0us controversy into the closinl
hours Of that oampsiEn. Blaine va
born a Roman Catholic. and Il va
generally understood that the vast IN
huenee Of that church was IN his favor
one Of the many AsleEstlena receive,
BY him vas composed Of elergymen
and their spokesman uttered a sneer a
the church u Rome.
For once oniy In Ma career the ever
ready toaEus Of the superior srator an
aebater vas paFalysed. The man VI
Mad met IN the forensic arena ever,
man Of note and dlstinetlon. and al
wAys acquitted himself with credit an
pnown. vas silent when Burchard Ut
tered the fatal worda. Rum. Roman
lam and Rebellion" On the followin
day he spoke In defense Of the rellgio
OF his mother; but Il was too late. II
was defeated. Poor Blainel
Fatality ~ Card rarty.
Mrs. George J, Shook overturned
lamp at a card party In Akron, Obi