The Washington times., 1923-08-06
PRAYERS IN ALL
CHURCHESFOR
HARDING
Washington's Places Of Wor-
ship Crowded As Pastors
EuIogize President.

Churchgoers of every creed prayed
for peace Of the soul Of President
Harding, for the welfare of Mrs.
Harding and for success Of the new
Chief Executive, in Washington
places of worship, yesterday.
From every pulpit in the city,
eulogies of the kindly man who
guided the nations course until sud-
den illness swept him to death, were
delivered to crowded pews. Many
faces were unfamiliar to regular
church attendants. These had come
especially to participate in the COM
mon grief.
In Calvary Baptist Church, where
the late President knelt, his pew
was filled with lilies.
Looking down upon this vacant
pew, the Rev. A. Freeman Anderson
assistant pastor, said, in his SER
mon on Service:
To-day the minds Of Americas
millions are turned toward really
kingly life that stands no more
upon the earthly field of vision.
Torn from us by what seems a de-
cidedly untimely death, we see him
now only in the hallowed vista of
memory"
COOlidges at Service.
President Calvin Coolidge and
Mrs. Coolidge, worshipping at the
First Congregational Church, which
Mr.. Coolidge attended during his
Vice Presidency, heard the Rev.
Jason Noble Pierce, pastor, call to
the minds of the congregation the
sorrow of the entire nation.
1--WE have confidence that God
will guide the -desrinies of America, 4"
he said. '"A train from the Pacific
is bearing toward us all that re-
mains Of him who a few hours ago
was our Chief Magistrate. Our
hearts are sorrowed most for the
wife, the companion"
Under humid skies, in the green
grounds surrounding st. Alban's
Cathedral, a throng gathered for
the open-air service, when the Rev.
Dr.. Ralph B. Pomeroy, eulogized
President Harding.
''The three great characteristics
by which God is known to man are
faith, law and cooperation" said
DR.. Pomeroy." Every one of these
was possessed to a marked degree
by our late President. The people
should look upon the nation today
with a sense of personal response
bility."
Missed BY Catholics.
Monsignor P. C. Gavan, in his
sermon at the Shrine of the Sacred
Heart, Sixteenth street and Park
road, yesterday, praised the char
acter and ability of the late Presi-
dent.
Just as our sympathy goes out
to all those who were closely and
intimately connected with President
Harding, and especially to his de-
voted consort. Mrs. Harding, there
come surging into our breasts high
hopes that his successor, President
Coolidge, will be strengthened by
Almighty God to fulfill the duties
of his office with the same sue
cess and the same devoted service
which distinguished the career of
his predecessor. Our prayers are
with him, and our best wishes"
"'He was a man of faith This
Biblical passage characterizes the
late President Harding" said the
Rev. Meade Bolton MacBryde, of
Grace Episcopal Church, in his ser.
mon. Harding had a strong faith,
sterling worth and unusual ability.
He brings to mind the words of st.
Paul, also: Faith, hope, love-the
greatest of these is love-"
Long streamers of crepe on the
portals of st. Aloysius' Church re-
minded not only parishioners, but
the passing hundreds on North Cap
itol street of the loss the nation has
incurred. At the six masses in the
church yesterday practically all of
the sermons were devoted to the
subject foremost in the hearts of
America.