Evening star., 1901-09-18
Impressive Services Of Sorrow for
the llustrious Dead.
SUSPENSION OF ALL BUSINESS
The National Capital Will Give
Itself Up to Reverence.
AMONG THE CHURCHES

it's most illustrious sons will be laid to
everlasting rest. In the capital Of the ma
tion which honored him and which he In
turn honored there will be complete
cessation of all business as the necessities
of a great community will permit In
churches and in houses the people will
give themselves up to prayer and holy
thoughts and renew their fealty to the
principles of patriotism, charity and man
hood that the dead one at Canton exempli-
fled in SO superb a degree
AT the late Presidents house of worship,
Metropolitan NJ E. Church, corner of AZ
and streets northwest, services will be
held at IL am. Addresses will be made by
Bishop Henry w. Warren of the Methodist
Episcopal Church and DR.. w. II. Crawford,
president of Allegheny College, Rev. H.
r. Naylor, D. D., presiding. DR.. Hugh john
ston of Baltimore, former pastor, and DIR.
Chapman of this city, acting pastor OF
the church, will assist.
Mrs. Cornelia Fairbanks, president gen.
eral of the Daughters of the American Rev
olution, has issued order directing all
members of the society al present in the
District of Columbia to attend these serv-
Ices.
ST. Johns Church.
A special memorial service will take place
at IL o'clock liz ST. Johns Church, and will
consist Of an appropriate address by the
rector Rev. Alexander Mackay Smith; the
professional hymn, For All the Saints
Who From Their babors Rest" burial
psalm, Lord, Let Me Know My End, and
the Number of My Days That l may be
Certified How Long Have to Live" hymn,
Nearer, My God to Thee; Apostles
Creed; Threefold kyrie; ASLEEP in Jesus;
I'm the Cross of Christ l Glory and the
recessional hymn, Jerusalem, the Golden,
With Milk and Honey Blest."
Services at ST. Marks Pro-Cathedral, cor
ner of Sd and A streets southeast Will be
held at pm.
At the Luther Place Memorial Church to-
morrow services will be held at IL o'clock.
The Keller Memorial Church will unite IN
the services Brief addresses Will be mace
by Rev DIR. l.. NJ. kuhns, former pastor
friend of the late President, and by Rev.
DIR. J. G. Butler, pastor of the Memorial
Church. and Rev. C. H. Butler of the Keller
Memorial Church
union prayer service in Calvary Baptist
Church. Sth and H streets northwest, at IL
o'clock.
In All Souls Church.
Memorial services will be held in All
Souls Unitarian Church. corner 14th and
L Streets at IL am, conducted by the MN
ister Rev. U. Y. B. Pierce. Mr.. Carroll u.
Wright, commissioner of labor, will deliver
an address 1t is expected that Mr.. John
ID. Long,
present and speak briefly. The choir, con-
sisting of Mrs. H. Clay Browning, soprano;
Mrs ]. F. Oyster, contralto; Mr.. j. Henry
Kaiser, basso; Mr.. Howard Q. Cook, tenor,
and Mr. George w. Walters, organist VIII
render the following numbers: I'm
Pilgrim I'm a Stranger Marion; Nearer,
My God, to Thee" Schneider; ). Lead Kind
ly Light" Newman-Dykes; America
The historic bell which hangs In the
church tower the first bell brought to
Washington for use of a Christian church,
will be tolled during the services at inter
walls of one minute. This bell was cast at
the foundry established near Boston by
Paul Revere the revolutionary patriot, and
was purchased by contributions from John
Quincy Adams, John c. Calhoun and other
prominent residents of Washington city in
the second decade of the last century. 1t
has tolled at the death of all Presidents
and on all occasions of national sorrow
since the deaths of John Adams ana
Thomas Jefferson, on the tourth OF July,
1896
In the Georgetown Churches.
Memorial services will be held tomorrow
in the several churches in Georgetown in
honor of President Mckinley. A union ser
vice will be held tomorrow morning at II
o clock at the West Street Presbyterian
Church. at which Rev. w. C. Alexander
DID, the pastor, will preside. The congre-
cations of the Dumbarton Avenue NJ. e.
Church, Congress Street NJ p. Church
West Washington Baptist Church, West
Washington Lutheran Church and the w est
Washington Mission of the NJ E. Church
South have been invited to participate in
the services.
Services will be conducted in ST. Johns
Church. corner of o and Potomac streets,
at . o'clock pm, by Rev. Frank Barton,
the pastor
A special memorial service will be held
| at Peck Memorial Chapel at IL am, the
! castor Rev. Charles Alvin Smith, having
I has
duct it,
Services at Mt. Zion Church.
| Services memorial will be held at Mt
/ Zion NJ Z. Church, Goth street north
west at IL am. The program will in
cude: Prelude and doxology by the choir.
Mr. II. N. Bowles, leader; hymn from the
Hymnal; Apostles creed: prayer by Rev.
Edgar Murphy; Nearer, My God to
Thee Goth Psalm, read responsively;
sively; lesson from New Testament, i Cor
15:45-5s; the Presidents fayorite hymn.
Lead. Kindly Light THE Christian
Statesman" Mr.. w. ]. Abrams hymn,
band Mrs. Julia NJ Layton: hymn, choir;
Our Nations Sorrow" Mr.. H. P. Cheat
ham, recorder of deeds of the District Of
Columbia; prayer.
Rev. w. H. Gaines, pastor: Rev NJ W.
Clair, PhD. presiding elder, and Mr.. ]. l..
Turner, recording steward, sign the call
for the service.
New York Avenue Church.
The services at the New York Avenue
Presbyterian Church tomorrow morning at
IL clock will be conducted by DR.. John r.
Paxton of New York. who is widely known
here.
The Division of the Potomac, Union Vet
erans Union. will attend the services In
Trinity Episcopal Church, corner Sd and c.
III a m
The Active Maryland Republican Asso-
citation viii meet at Metzerott's Hall to-
morrow night, and has invited all republi-
cans tc join In revering and honoring In
death him whom they loved and followed
in life.
| Little Miss Hallowell. the invalid sum-
shine poetess of America, will participat re
| In the memorial services to be held at the
Soldiers, Sailors and Marines Club Az @
street northw est. at pm, and will read
| original poems.
Conversational Church Program.
There will be religious services held nj
| IL o'clock tomorrow at First Congreea-
tional Church, corner of 10th and G streets
| DIR. Merrill E. Gates, ex-president Of AM
herst University, who is now officiating at
| the public services in the church until the
| return OF the pastor, viii have charge
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