The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-05-04

Major General o. o. Howard. United
States army. retired and one of the great
Union leaders OF the civil war. made two
very interesting addresses yesterday In
this city. speaking in the afternoon al
the Y. NJ C. A. and In the evening al
the Calvary Baptist church.
The afternoon service was listened "a
by a large audience, number Of veterans
being included. His subject was "A
Fathers Love" and he told a number OF
wartime stories. He closed by briefly
speaking OF the work OF the Lincoln
Memorial institute at Cumberland Gap.
Tenn. OF which he Is the head. and
which resulted. he said, from the love
felt by the martyred president for the
poor white people. the mounts ineers. of
that region. They are often called
white trash said Gen. Howard. but
Abraham Lincoln came from this sort
Of stock. Everything We can do for
these people viii be doubly and treby
awarded"
Yesterday marked the beginning Of the
18th year Of the pastorate OF Rev. Ed
ward Holyoke at the Calvary Baptist
church and In connection with the OBJ
servance OF the day was the baptism OF
two candidates. special choir music and
the address In the evening by Gen. How
ard. who said in part:
II.
acter. In a book OF recent publication,
The Crisis he is quoted as telling .
very rough story, ending with profanity.
/ do not think that was true. This was
a work OF fiction and an incident like
that related was not like Lincoln
AT an early crisis in the war. when
a message OF discouraging import was
received from Gen. Scott. II was re-
ported that Lincoln swore. AS a mat
g. L. .l.l
and told stories to those who were with
him."
FELT HIS SPIRIT.
Gen Howard told OF times when he
met the president when he actually felt
the pulse OF his spirit"
"Once when we were in camp down
there In Virginia" said Gen. Howard.
1.-The nresident came to see me. In my
tent he noticed beautiful robe and re-
marked on IT, Then he caught sight of
a set OF tablets bearing notices. that
had been given me. hanging up at the
back Of the tent The upper most tablet
happened to bear the words. The Lord
Is my shepherd. l shall not want" This
seemed TO please Lincoln. as he repeated
the words and made some remark about
the tablets being there. This was before
Ghancellorsville After that battle, which
was disaster Tor me, tnefe were some
who said that l should he removed from
command. After the battle a delegation
went to Washington to see Mr.. Lincoln.
They said. Gen Howard is a good man.
but the country has lost confidence in
him. He has met defeat Mr.. Lincoln
answered-there is little egotism In
this. but you will forgive it-he said:
Gen. Howard Is all right. You let him
alone and he will bring things straight
Lincoln was man who read the
Scriptures continually. and he went of
by himself and prayed When General
Sckles lost his leg he was taken down to
Washington to a boarding house where
he had lot OF friends. and Lincoln came
there to see him. Lincoln thought n
great deal OF Sickles. for he was of the
opposite party. and had remained loyal.
After a few further remarks he said:
Now, would you really like TO know
what I was doing about that time. L
went away by myself. and knelt down
and prayed: "Oh, Lord, you know I've
done all I could do. Now come in and
help me at this time" And he said ne
knew at that time. after the prayer, just
as we'll as a few days later that Gettys-
burg was won. And he told Sickles that
he knew in the same way that he would
get well.
''One of his visitors at one time asked;