The New York Herald Newspaper, April 17, 1865, Page 2

pacer ae « - . wr a ~ NEW YORK HERALD; MOND ‘Y, APRIL 17, 1845. PE ETL table way light sL4Ui break forth for us from these f we throw ginelves upon His assurance, peteintiy for Hum. the grat duty of strengen rane, ame 20 was je arose from asick bed to set out for Wasly speaker was in the West at the th be with Mr. Johnson during a and knew how fearful! utter! high mass sung on the occasion was oxceeaingly solemn ‘and tsspressive. ‘After the first Gospel the Rev. Dr. Cummings ascended the altar, aed eaid that the most reverend Archbishop of ose sanctuaries the diocese bad set circulars around to the various . Lincoln. If any man them bow peoutiar was the Minonor of the poeple it was Abrali lever worked faithfully for the good of his country and for ita restoration to a lasting peare ixon record that was ever c He never did anything to goad on for evil pnrposes. His part, ther! always to pour oil on the troubled rmness 0° Aue Ho could not j arncterized by tbe UR GRIEF. The Services in the City Churches Continued from Eighth Page. Trinity Church. THE REY. DR. VINTON. Yopterday was a sad aud mournful Easter Sunday itt The customary Easter decorations were entrances to the church were draped in mourning, und the vast congregation which filled partof the building had evidently before their minds the terrible bereavement which the nation has sustained. A special prayer was offered up in the moruing for Mrs. Lincoln and family, When the anthem, “Ho was cut off from the land of the living,” was sung with the plaintive ff “But Thou did’st not leave his soul in Hell’ (Handel's pathetic masterpiece), many of the congregation could f not restrain their tears, A touch of sadness even was communicated to the “Hallelujah Chorus” which fol- malice or malignity the passions of men Barm and resolute, wes waters, and to assure harmony by the f nd the gentleness of affection. Je action of the deceased which was not characterized by honesty, kindness, mercy, benevolence In the loses of such a man God intends that the nation shall he made to feel that In our deep national God for light, as row this nation By a very terribie bs pi h outfit to be filled with people looking to is manifestly the Divine purpose @ th Catholic churches requesting the clergy to sympathize) pie in the great national bereayemont hich had fallen like ‘d-velopment; and if we! od in all our ways, He will h’ we may fAlcrime that our history resolute ge! be hard indeed to find ¢ national’ developments sorrow at devly upon us Festival,’to shock the feelings and mmunity into the deepest distress ‘most prosious to all—the life of the dent of these United . States—bas and startling elowe ‘Tho life, too, of the He looked upon Andrew Johnson—s mam , Strong purpose, and im together unworthy, he Abraham te (Renewed 'ap- ae But wo must turn did not think it necessary lo would say, Brethren, Caristians, fellow to God, He (the revernd now learn to aeknow eet our pathe, and « futur’ open to us wheel , of noble nature, honesty—as not all to be the successor he four years to come. ‘e for him a generous and hich he was not unworthy. n no text, but this was his text, Jorified our past, future that lies ‘uct ourselves like true Americam Magistrate; frowm upon ev- ernment, for there would i the speaker did met had yet to record. of land true conscientiousness. lancholy event which has come so sud- in the midst of the rejoicings of the Easter the upderstandil . and peaceful hearts, as a fata most glorious, be nase mt With Ged for our pillar of cloud by day and our fire by night, light «hall rise upon all our dark- hess, present or to come. St. Patrick’s Cathedral. ARCHBISHOP M'CLOSKEY. ‘The cathedral Church of St. ‘crowded by a devout congregation, who assisted at the’ celebration of high mass, at which the venerable and beloved Archbishop officiated, assisted by numerous priosts and acolytes. After the communion the Arch- bishop addressed the congrogation from the steps of the = MHe rules over all. rs of our country call the President of and plunge the co tes their Great Father; and this is a happy fand beautiful thought; for he has always been to these ‘simple and untntored savages father should be to his children. trusting Indians 1 tion, so must we | salvation of the nat ‘Trust in Him who had crowned and and He would also c Let id the new Chief ery effort to embarrass the g0' be some. who would try to do it; an doubt that there would be a temporary land a corresponding depression of gov! ties; but it would be only temporary, God’ and ourselves, the future would be secure would be weil. the United Stat the the violemt hand rown and glorify t retary of State) ‘becn assailed by a similar act, in a critical condition, While fear and devotion to the ingeru- Divine Providence, let us al! unite supplications with re- for our beloved cowntry in her mourn- bronght to a sad of am assassin. and that of his son bas land both are now lyinj bowing down in hum what a loving and tender ‘And as these poor, jook to their earthly father for protec: & look to God with faith and dope for the ion. The reverend gentleman then observed that in the course of his professional caroorhe had twice been called upon to visit the deathhed of the President of the country. He alluded to the cases of Presidents Harrison and Taylor. not parallel to this; naturally, while in the disch: ‘Lincoln has been cut down it land by the hand of a base assassin. The head is stricken, land the whole body shudders. -The father of the country ‘and the whole nation mourns, Ther are some Imen who stand forth 80 prominently among theircontem- poraries that when they die the their loss convulses the whole world. - unto himself nor dieth unto himself. President Lin cola was.one of these. There are many couptries of ‘Europe, and more especially Germany and Switzerland, is memory will long abide and be reverenced for y. If it be interesting, as it mi nds, both here and on the other side tic, let-them be assured that his immortality is secure, without any tarnish or collay evermore. Ho is secure of strictly on theological his remarks be again In the death of ple had lost thoir best he was as gentle and preacher then proceeded evory My Matters. At the conclu: alluded to the tragic events of the hour. Ff its solemn seal upon a great principle. Patrick was yesterday Abraham Lincoln the Southern peo) friend. Though of a rough nature Bi tender as a woman—the mature version of George Wash- ‘After some further eloquent tributes as to the of Mr. Lincoln, Dr. Oagood concluded ‘his dis, that funeral services would be held in forth our prayers and newed earnestness and, trusting ta But these cases were ful and perilous passage. for there public servants died of their duty. President e midst of his usefulness St. Ann’s Church. THR REV. FATHER PRESTON. ‘At the close of High Mass, in this Catholic temple yos- the pastor, Rev, Fathor Preston, alluded in elo- quent ‘and feeling term! Vourth Universalist Church. THE REY. DR. EDWIN CHAPIN'S. Never in the history of Dr. Chapin’s church was there such a congregation assembled within its walls as on yes. iterday. Thousands had to leave for want of standing room, even in the porch. The church was draped im deep mourning. Dr. Chapin took his text from the twenty-fifth verse lof the eloventh chapter of St. John’s gospel. After es tablishing, ably and cloquently, from this passage an philosophy, the fallacy of materialistic principles, the me mortality of the soul, amd painting in brilliant colors the hope of the Christian after death, the learned gentle- man took up the great theme of the day, when he made la brief peroration to his discourse, as follows;—Surely now, when the nation’s heart beats like the roll of @ muffled drum, we certainly want to beliove that the grief which palls us is not to enfold him who wae called away in death, which knows no waking. You have come here expecting me to say something about that great event which has come upon us asa thunder bolt from the sky. Never didIseem s0 incapablee speaking on any event. But it isthe misfortune of the poor minister that he must always be prepared to com- fort others, no matter what may be the occasion. Let me speak at any time but when the people’s hearts are far more eloquent in thoir smothered or muttered feeling than any words that can be spoken. What else can E say that has not already beon said, not only im ‘words, in eloquent articlos in the great columns of the papers, but in the aspects of the people? See those great columns roatest stre sts turned suddenly into great terraces from resorts of gayety and life-like April these changes have coine ever in history has there been such an e@x- I fecling, 80 deep, so wonderful, se hich in'a moment bas transformed d rejoicing into calamity and the church on The Archbishop said:—Beloved brethren, after the! lengthened services of the church at whioh you havi to ask the privilege of trespassing a The privilege St. Paul’s Church. THE REY. MORGAN L, DIX. ‘The usual Easter services were celobrated in this chuch, Ne sermon was preached. ‘The Rov. Morgan L. Dix merely said:— ‘The words which I had prepared to speak to you upon Pathis Easter festival seem strangely inappropriate land I had no heart to prepare others. Our sentimen! FA ioy at the resurrection, our feelings of therly love, are all morged in sorrow. of that room in which he lies dead, ¥ spirit or in reality, watching round Pa think of that other room, in which I trembling between life and death, mero few or none. Christ, indeed, \s rison for us to-day; but is risen in the night—in| rey comfort the hearts! tion those who are) k to you this morn- rel to-day witl apoak mes, culled by ts and minds, am ed yoursand the uation’s been assisting I ha s to the assassination of the Pre- few minutes more upon your patience. which I ask is indeed a very sad and very mournful one— a privilege which I have reserved fer myself, for the rea- ane son that I cannot and could not, without injtistice to my Roy. Archbishop MeCloskey on the subject, he sald own feelings, and, Iam sure, to your feeling# also, sllow myself to forego. And that priviloge, as doubtless you already anticipate, is of addressing to you at least a fow brief andiimperfect words upon the great, I may even say the avtful, calamity.which has‘s0 unexpectedly fallen’ upon our beloved and now still more than ever afflicted country. But two days ago we beheld the re- joicings ofan exultant people mingling even with the tive sorrows of our Saviour’s' crucifixion. ‘Phe preacher was the Rey, Dr. Vinton, was powerful and made an evident impression on the “The Lord has risen. 5 indeed, and has appeared unto Simon.’? ancient Easter morning salutation of the priests of the Eastern church, Bearing in tind the circumstances of the nation and the national sympathies’of the human heart, he preferred to apply these words to the case before him, so that im our ailiction we might lear the ¢ bad seon our Lord crucitied by & wicked men, for ‘which crimo the Jews as a nation wore scattored over the entire earth, and well nigh extermi- nated. On this same day our nation had seen its Chief Ra ‘Magistrate stricken by the hand of thé assassin, actuated A by wickedness a8 great as that of tha Jews themselves, by and instigated by causes as Lineoln Was slain by the permissic Such was the the nation is in mourn! not know that @ greater ,oalamity could” have, man’ id bro- HB his frie lesson of Kaster day. with the nation, in his bier; whon 'we ie two other victims, Bd neo words should be I jis name shall live for in the hearts of the to be enshrimed and honored, whatever becomes Since the illustrious) ment was taken from us there has been none other like Abraham ton was in the Providence of God that by a grateful people he should always the mame of Fat! that our lamented and. assassinated President—another father of his count taken from us thus rudely and abruptly, 4 no lapse of time can eradicate his glory from the minds of the people. ever reach his fame; and even how hi Ins, as it will to our posterity, through tl attendant on this hour. For the stars of our banner ‘Let us weep for its darkness, but weep not for him. ‘The learned and reverend gentleman them proceeded ito descant on the wantonness and enormit; assassination, which, he said, was one features of the t1 pect to gain by it? Pato us, as to them of old, he ao Chea fadarkness. May God in his stricken so cruelly. ling; the solemn services of the more feelingly to your hear tones of joy render more mar! grief. Let the services go on. wo to doive from this great afifiction. lessons which this war had taught us was to recognize the hand of God. Another lesson wis that there had always been found men—instraments of God—fitted for their office—one man to organize an, army, another tof lead 1 to victory—and as soon as they! had accomplished #4 them todo they had ba en removed andg wo #aw the one ff , like Saul, a héa d and shoulders #4 yaworship might honor th sn belonged to One of the great nation. And now rth more earnes! No oblivion can calamity. Let us pray y to the Almichty to! d to restrain His jus ent on the peace which we all ‘We, as Catholics, it, Let us, therefore, discharge our Létus humble ourselves, and pray His judgments on the country, ‘prosperity and happiness as Christ Chureh. THE REV. THOMAS COOK. ‘The celebration of the great festival of the resurrection Hof our Lor, baing one of tho highest and most important! ceremonies of the churgh, prevented emblems of mourn~ ing being displayed at this church yesterday. ‘This was in accordance with instructions réceived by the rector, Rev: F. C. Ewer, from the bidhop of the dio- cose, who also directed the church to be draped in mourn- Ming immediately after the conclusion of the ceremonics of the day, and that, as the 20th instant was set apart by the Governor as a day of humiliation and prayer, appro- Pa priate services be offered on that day, at half-past ten. M. other men raised in their place. man (Abraham Lin ‘taller than the reat, our dispos have lod us to give him mu providential man, and a jeal from ua, to show that the Lord President, our King, our Saviour. this resolution which grow saddened and dim. love our country, land are faithful to [duty to it this day. ‘Almighty God to avert ‘and bring back to us peace, imilar allusions were made by the e death of Mr. Lincoln, and thoy Wore heard with sympathetic and profound attention by immense congregations. St. Teresa’s Roman Catholic Church. ‘At St. Teresa’s Roman Catholic church, corner of! Rutgers and Henry streots, of the circilar issued b; at all the masses, No rei necessary for the introduction of th ate this republic, we do not the less sincerely ‘or lees largely, bare in that nation’s’ There is but one feeling per- carthout, atnction “OF party stinction of race or color— ‘ing’ priests to tl thas great and. fearfullll nce: heard, y and almost orushing death, @ that in that death that has 80 fas that sudden and awful death ser Magistrate of this country the whole na- has sustained a great, a very if we were to take counsel of our fears, parable loss. But, no; our fears, Our trust and con- fous and a merciful God.ls Inoue forebodings of what may still future, And it. is to Him that in tion's triain we lift up our eyes and lication. Him we be- se who are and are to jesus a lone was ourg Tt wag He who had and less deeply, dy. What could conspii ‘hey could not help the rebellion by it could not for a moment arrest the law-| he government. Hereafter it will be a matter of wonder that, in the midst of so grave la national calamity, a new President was inangurated with so much calmness and order. At previous masses 6! or creed, without ‘one sentiment only bereavement, of that All feel, all aoknowledg: eountry had been divided into one noble ft, purer and more in accordance with Christ's tonbling ie noton'this day indulge feclines of vengenn °- the day on which Christ arose jrom the «de 44, and wed must recollect that He rose not only to bring ‘light and peace, but to be the judge of the world. which had inspired the assassin's arm have ti \@ bi of our hearts, as sin ought to be hated Let no private veng private hatred be entertained vicegerency of Jesus Christ land. There was one great in our judges should When Saul, in detiance of Gc ful authority of w im mourning; following April sum- which Rev. Jamea Boyce great loss, and, we would say at hope is stronger than ou! fidence in a good, stronger than any om! f outward emblems of serrow were not! fe stealing through the grained and hibition of national universal an event, 1 the national triumphs an mourning. There may have been some some great event in the hii lic to a mona PA ‘The presence o needed, ay the musi eA vaulted aisles of the church which everywhere. prevail FAtion that though the Pre hi Hanae . “Like the crucifixion of Christ this assault upon » aud the solemon sadness Mi the life of the Chief Magistrate was no hastily arranged It wasa well defined plot, and it is a fittin climax of the crime which sought to take the nation’s life. When, four years ago, it was said that there was ‘a conspiracy to take the life of Mr. Lincoln before his inauguration men laughed at it. how much ground there was for such @ fear. beilion was conceived in guilt and sin, necessarily bo guilty and detestable. Jeman then drew the proper distinction between the leaders of tho rebellion and the misled masses of the He alluded to the barbarous spirit of war, in the burning the murder of in- Let us leave tto the we tha brought to mind the refiec- ¢ circular were made. dent of the United States has assed ftom the troubled scene of his earthly labors—that in Christ, and that as he died with ward in the everlast- A truly eloquent and A by the Rev. Thos. Cook. such as turning rehy, that may have caused as sala feeling of sorrow—there may have in’ the French revolution thas * but we have no ac aching to that which not aware that story of Rome, Calvary Episcopal Church. THE REY. BISHOP COX. ‘The Easter services at the above church were very im- pressive, four clergymen officiating on the occasion. the conclusion of the services Bishop Cox, who for many years has beon the officiating clergyman of this congre-| preached an eloquent sermon, taking his text} Job, commencing at the Fr eyes as an exe command, spared he has fallen~as! great and unive’ been some sudden turn caused as great and profound regret, count of anything of this kind appro: now feel and behold. re has ever before been anything like the prose ‘Assassination shocked and asto was a marked era in our history, upon it in a spiritual tional importance. raise our voices of earnest su) eech that He may give light to tl s of the destinies of our country; dance and protection to them, and and safety to that the sentiments of mercy 4 Him, so will he rise to a glorions re ing morning of the resurrect earnest discohrse was delivered Now they may well see of thy kingdom,” ming down h's face, © all its fruits must ‘The reverend gen- mission from God, took A; before the Jord. rebellion b> dealt with St. George’s Charch and hewed him in plac hould the leaders of th nished our people. and whether we look or moral aspect it isan era of na- There are strange coincidences im Last Sunday was Palm Sunday. ‘We did not consider that our joy of last Sabbath, when victory came, victory that had so xpected, would be turned into such inex- ‘The nation was tired and weak, and be- hoped, to reach the end of its’ troubles. What a vast sacrifice have they cost us, blood.” Strange it was that this sad event should have happencd in such aweek ata time when we had hoped the end of our as nigh. The week was a week of Christian sorrow, of Christian calamity. And then came t the most solemn day of all the year to the that stand by itself, Strange was it thas that day the electric wires trembled on words—“Abraham Lincoln is dead.” read the announcement thus of the death of a friend that did not thrill with grief. Ido not think that Abra- ham Lincoln is not to-day mourned by people of every shade of opinion to-day asa deceased friend. Ihave no apprehension of being termed political when I express for the loss of our President isa loss ion, and the shot fired at Abraham Lincoln was a shot fired at our flag, All parties grieve. ‘There are a few who dre not men who may not grieve at do not belong to humanity. The present of deep and universal indignation and grief. The indignation is at the work of the assassin: ‘There is nothing so base as the work of the asrassin. man who takes a sword or a musket, and comes up bravely to fight, has some honor, and is entitled to some ect; but when aman comes sneaking behind your ‘destroy your life, there is something meaner in the act than Ican find language to express. I will not at this is the spirit of all the people of the ; but I may say—without being misunderstood— ‘the spirit which actuated Abraham Lincoln, is the same spirit which fired on FortSumter. (Loud applause) And I think I may ting any sectional pride, no man could have been fou ‘base enough in the whole North to have fired that shot which killed Abraham Lincoln into the back of the head planse.) It is the rending braham Lincoln. It last effort of the evil spirit. The same thing was done to Him who was ‘‘the resurrection Lincoln expressed in his acts anc people. He may have done many thi did everything honestly and brow, had a kind ‘heart, a just and wise, country. We pray beloved President whom we have just ‘ate and guide the breast of him who, d trying hour, is called to fill his take comfort, beloved brethren, in he latest ' intelligence that has honorable Secretary of State, who n by the violent hand of an assas- till lives, and that a hope, dof his final recovery. he life at all times valuable in the nis critical juncture of our affairs more ‘aluablé to each and every one of us, providence be preserved; and that with his cabinet, e advantage of the wisdom and rudence which have been 60 onorable Secretary of State. ‘ed brethren, children of the Ga: undone on your’ Southern people. Mf slavery as exhibited throughout the fof cities, the treatment of prisoners, Bnocent people and the from the nineteenth chapter of twenty-fifth verse:—“I know that my Redeemer liveth.” ‘After speaking of the crucifixion and subsequent rosur- the reverend gentleman alluded tn © assassination of President Lincoln, das the father of the nation, who has been stricken down by the hand of a d when peace was al A very large congregation assembled at this church t even o'clock, to hear the venerable Dr. ‘tyng. The air of this great throng of worshippers asi {they came in, as they moved softly up the long aisles, F as they sat in pensive silence awaiting the opening of the services, all botokened the heaviness of that sorrow: fi nat weighs down every heart, yout with tho sad emblems of a nation’s woe. > dark background of the heart of the lost will still actu blematic of victory. nat.on, God had said to hit, faithful servant It may de that 'P rection of Christ, feoiing terms to th whom he designate the thought that reached us that the too was stricken dow: sin-~even as his superior—s ‘a reaponable ho} Let us pray t past, but in th than ever dear and vi may in God’s goo newly inaugw may still have experience and possessed by the not tell you, belov tholic Church, to the institutions rend gentleman read a letter from the Iste President to a Quakeress, in which he spoke feelingly Hof his reliance on the guidance of God in his important Mice, thanking her for her prayers, and saying that he inscrutable providence of God he in- Miended some great good for the nation to arise out of @ war which man could not begin nor extend. sion, Dr. Adams said that there was a growing spirit of sontimentality that would denounce ca ft ‘contrary to the plain theolo; however, he hoped, ne wreteh who had perpe nter thou into the 1 bout to dawn efforts of him whose! nation into the deepest he said, rendered the ‘before, pecans? it likens bers of the samé household who: her to pay the last Twenty millions off the nation has sustained ; d religious element in the American he nation strong ia the hour of its execute the stern God's will be done. as Christ to sup The pulpit was draped was sure that in the upon the count te has plunged a great 1 This act of the assassin, han it ever was ort him whom Hi great and good man called t ntation let us mingle praise “ape which hung around it ing ceful festoons, encircling the whole front and caught n the middle with a loop of sombre hue, was sus- -d the starry’ flag, each star gleaming with a melan ig lustro, in sad contrast with the radiant splendor ital punishment as ible. ‘There were, 0 did not desire that the trated this awful crime should be brought to prompt and swift punishment. He closed by fecling tribute to the dead President, led upon the congregration to pray for he may become another joy and glory as‘becomes us on E Gloria in Eaelis was then s rated President, the people to assemble over the corpse of a fath tribute of respect to bis meme ple mourn the ut there is a gran people which makes ang, and the congregation & your nerves the Church of the Who has ever Poy, Trinity. f oP . TYNG, JR. Maan eloquent an ‘and oloquently call Mm the new man, that vblet, surmounted by the bust of the Rey. James} leave nothing a former rector, was decked with the same sable ith which every heart is now t o the universal sorrow. The d symbol of the new life, now shrouded in| | forgetful of its ence joyous speech, spoke th—a death Wie saddest, the cruel ‘at ever made the heart of a nation bleed— ‘of your country in this ou to omit nothing in join- 1 of public honor and re- of that President who is now, alas! hall be appointed for his fune- he solemn dirge of hese walls, the dirge of echo and Te-écho within your hearts, henever it may be, the doors of this n to you that you may enter in and adoring the inscru- all-wise and all-just Providence, be- sand His blessings upon us all, and ‘at least, His anger may be appeased © of war may cease, eu tit thas torrents of buman sai se “will ger flow and drench our oni peed Sienenene, that even in the in sight of that deed of Mike an electric shock, has shaken every heart throughout the land—we ma: ‘millation, and be moved by God in dence now, at least, to long broken and ‘ecare that no spirit of revenge, malice or resentment, shall at this ion of our hearts. His Tet us beware that we hastisement. Now, at the grave lI—over the graves! friends in every section of the those who are still spared join hands together in Chris- jation and in sweet forget- pledges that henésforth we ‘together in unity and har- As bis Excellency t parts and fidelity to great crisia, I need not ask ing in overy prop “Christ, the Lord, is risen to-day,” Madame Clara M. Brinkerhoff leading in that and Chappel’s Easter An- ing to give ex- St. Luke’s Church. ADDRESS OF REV. DR. FORBES. During the morning service at this Episcopal church yosterday, the Rev. Dr. Forbos delivered an eloquent t the lecturer, and to the right of it the read-Sil address on the death of Mr. Lincoln before @ large con- gregation. Tho Rev. Doctor having referred briefly to his assassination and the gloom cast over the country by the event, said the life of the President was one worthy of contemplation. If they examined the views of the Christian Church, they would. befitting theMa: ence discover that Mr. Lincoln was worthy of the eacred term of martyr. this feeling to-day, our good nati Mr. Tyng took for his text the passage in Exodus xii, 3:—“A lamb fora house.” history of the church, he showed that its true relation, which should never be lost sight of, was that of a family, Jesus Christ himself being the Priest of the household, our elder brother, on whom each could rest with a fecling ess. The cultivation of this intimate relation between members of Christ's Church promoted a feeling of sympathy, so that “if onc member suffer, all the members suffer with it; if one member rejoice, all the members rejoice with it.’? remarks on the dark event which has just taught us, as] ® nation, a community of sorrow. The assassin’s hand has robbed our country of its head and draped in weeds| of mourning thousands of homes. as a personal stoicism in the assaugemont of Every half-hung flag drooped in a dispirited breoze, each tear which coursed down bronzed and manly cheeks, every deep un-' utterable sense of grief, to-day more intense and ab- dings are better realized, seems ral, although resound within tl ik in the morning of that day. Tracing the primitive they are traitors to Third Unitarian Church. is death: they are THE REV. DAVID A. WASSON’S DISCOURSE. ‘The desk of Rev. O. 8. Frothingham was filled yester- day morning by the Rev. David A. Wasson, the “Country Parson’ of the Atlantic Monthly. Mr. Wasson had a pre- Dut remarked on rising that he had little heart to speak, as his audience probably had litdle heart to hear, remarks upon any other topic than that) now engrossing the interost of all. was not prepared to speak, and in speaking upon It should have to depart from his custom of thorough pre- able to say what was he, should speak on. obviously reached, he said, # new epoch in America; we had thought that the traditions of our race and the quality of the Anglo-Saxon people could forever oxclude| all possibilities like this that had now suddenly demon- strated itself. We had thought that murder was un- American; that, even with the corruptions of slavery, continued for two centuries, the predilections of our peo- ple for open and fair dealing could not be so far forgotten that this was to be apprehended. When, something ‘more than four years ago, to the capital, few men who @id not look upon it as and many looked upon it as akin to pusil- ‘urnfully, like all around, upheld the sacred] might’ bring peace, but not joy, to the) of the proclamation of Governor Fenton, ‘Thursday as a day of thanks said that inasmuch as ‘the day would bef of the early writere bow down in spirit before this altar, of personal ne: appointing nix our victories, Di praying that now, Rnd the cruel scout ‘blood may no lon; land Yes, let us pray affliction—even into mourning, intended, but with services taking his text he gaid:— quReN—The draperies which hang] me to-day, arranged by the lovely and daughters of their flock, tells the whole story of ‘ominefitly, and especially the sub- before the minds of all who} ‘it seems impossible to step aside atherly impossible for me, in m: weary state of mind, se muc on Thursday to beal-' alte and feolings con- ‘n I shall present my Kagter| id made ready before) ‘Those writers had man sacrificed his life hie country—when ose of conferring benefit on his fel- ose 9 eye on tho an This thought led to some| me of the ley: one ts =< bow down in hu- Upon that topic he (is meroy and provi- ‘enmities, to restore perhaps long ‘forgotten. Hi paration; but if he found himself in his heart, loving hands of country, in this bv the day, brings so pi ject of which they jure gathered here, from it; and yet it ig) It comes home to us It stultiftes all human wretched traitor as he is, this heart sick- which yesterday ‘on, aa last, be was beptized in his own blood, ‘tures which constitute a'martyr. As they would all eon- at the late President was guided main! the fear and love of God, and as he hi he was then entitled to be called a lof wicked spite, or of tak lowed to speak somge of lof the demon w' cerning it; but on this ¢ thoughts as they wire BD this great event occ urros |. -— Chare h 01" the P, uritans. DR. ‘ONORGE The Church of the Pufitatia, on \ densely filled. Thee @tire interior was ng, and the sable tra; pings covered the desk and organ loft. Dr. Oupeven offered up a very ferven prayed for the repose o. the soul of the Pa hoped God would grant His consolation to 1 dreadful calamity which had befallen our p * prayed that wisdom migh € be given to the that he may govern as we Wl as his predecessor; might become one nation, and peace be grants |He prayed that the colored race might live as we onaig dle same zrivile tee; that wisdom bestowed on hen” screed Dr. Cheever then deHvered a sermon, taking fa urteenth verse of the third chapter know that whatsoever God doeth’ shall it; and God doeth it that great and illustrious de; d his life the genius of sorbing, as the dreadful to be tho nad echo of Elish my fatner! the chario ereof;"’ for we sce him no more. The halo of martyr- dom already eaticles the ‘remembrance ot man’ taal whom none in office has ever been more patriotic. and| ure, the principles of whose administration have been| wrong, but he The Brick Presbyterian Church. BEV. MH. MURRAY. During the services yesterday at the church of the Rev. Dr. Spring, corner,of Thirty-seventh street and Fifth avenue, the Rev. Mr. Murray delivered a discourse on the all absorbing topic of the President's assassination, taking his text from the 112th Pealm, fourth verse— “Unto the upright there ariseth ght in the darkness ”” Hie remarks, 90 far as they related to the calamity, were on, and was firm, rors were you must say you belleve him to have been an honest lover of hie country. constitution and the nation had no better lover than he own the things that — te and the horsemen| ‘Inion square, was] , draped in mourn- pulpit, reading) St. Peter's Church. TRE REV. FATHER QUINW. Previous to the sermon the Rev. Father Qoinm read i were nce to the death Mj unnecessary, If the South had she would have said that th Lincoln. How much better friend was he than he who, in his mad flight in the face of Mr. Lincoln's disposition for reconciliation, sends out still sounding deflance from Danville. Ver was the way he waited upon Pi diMculty and danger he stood but when the ship Ihe is basely stricken dows. Our fallen soldiers are martyrs. they went forth expecting dango knowing they would fall. ie Knowing that the assasein This day of joy has by his death inexpressible sorrow to us. adornments we have to use symbols mourning. But when the disciples and mourning, and sorrow pervaded thi xclamation of triumph, “It is finished,” burst from him on the Crose. After all I think this day ts the most ‘the most fitting, the most solemn on whieh: we could have considered this event. ment of the blessed h fort in our aMfiction. . h the place of human prejudice, all possibility of miscon- re meinen ne, We can as Christians rejoice in ever lived; and, th Ath wet and briny tears, we ween over his loss, in our we can still UBlomwed “are the dead who dle ta the Lond;? ence saith the spirit; Inbors, and their works do follow.” struction having together that A' We did not then believe to be possible what, touching way to the sad event. He said he cou! anything that would express which filled al] hearts, not on! community, but of the entire country. words, he said, to express our horror of the sad event. , The work of the assassin is always deprecated ; but when [Mj unders' his hand is raised against the first citizen of the nation, gift. It right firm by the hell view of the safe harbor Abraham Lincoln was more fully the sentiments fj man, t y those of the Catholic [need. Our late Ch ‘We have not (im to sult the people’s need. people could need, and uo quality that they could not} tand and appreci:'e, he seemed providential| seemed as if.the Almighty God, the Eternal had shaped the man for us, and had con cealed him in the West—had kept him confined almost) exclusively to the merely private duties of his place and vocation, until time had inspired the hearts of the American people with a purpose, and to take that man and place nim at the head of the nation. man #0 proverbially modest that it was said of he came forward to mingle in politics tn| ate his friends always had to put him on the that it never occurred to him that he take a leading place—so modest that he always me one came to him and said, ‘It is your there and meet this man;’ ously obeyed its behests. He was a slow nabled the people to keep up with him. indifference to theoretical truth, but a Tar devotion to practical men, and thus was in sym ive geniue of the American people erse to harsh measures, prone he reasonableness of men, that would have made him ich he was called had not this) a" hee ‘A horror of thick darkness settles over the nation to- day. Nothing like it ever before breoded over the nation- ial heart and plunged it in deep depression. We turnas by force of instinct—nay, rather as under the progress of ja dense, dark agency to those passages of the Psalms which sreathe out in their solemn cadences all the plaintive- 19 of bruised and broken hearts, and all the forebodings: nd anxious spirit, Not that death has for + time entered our halls of State and cut down our ~istrates im the midat of their public pervice and trusts, Twice before has the nation been over the deaths of Presidents in office. was bowed with mighty grief. ‘Then the * to God—the unchanging, ever-loving that in Him was all its hope. The dependences then forced iteclf ~usness, and all party strifes While there is freedom and a man in these United| Jay im wait for him. been made a day friends of Christ Jenient punishment was the agent, yet in the sadness of em for his death, but still trusting spirits, we must learn after all fm astes:- 2 ant as be wills with istian trust of resignati fighting hard these old feelings of vengeance, which pe He remarked that since God hi ‘never spake to a nation as hi that it is the Lord’s doin, fountry and restore to all parte harmony, peace and ont the Jews, BR lone to ours this day it was the thunder of divine wrath ; Forfa the tremendous event of centuries. ih ‘The encourage of resurrection mingles com- hat else could you say on such an occasion as this, except the words that belong to “Tam the resurrection and the li these are only to make mon happy? But we do not use these the plague of all our he ourneth for his only som, and him an one that a In bitteruess for hia fest bere" Fer him it is far better; but for us, for us! Would to God a double portion of the spirit of Elijah might fall with the mantle upon Elisha. Be very earnest in your pray him who, by this sud event is called ‘ofl mourn forbearance and ‘sympathizing eto. "Yor the ake] of the spirit which is tled—for country’s sake, for| God's, stand by Joshua as you have by our meek and he with our Easter offering! we mingle with our exultant We are silenced in Catholic Church. ARCHDEACON M’CARRON. Archdeacon McCarron, at nine o’clock mass yesterday morning, alluded to the tragic events which hav transpired in Washington. The reverend gentleman spoke eloquently and to the point, He stigmatized the ‘assassination of Mr, Lincoln as an outrage not alone upon the morals of humanity, but upon the very foundation of our social organization, The attack upon Mr. Seward, he asserted, was an act so terrible and cowardly in ite character that there is no parallel to be found either in sacred or profane history. The Archdeacon also intro- ‘duced the following text into his discourse, 18th chapter:—'' Let every soul be subject to the higher ra; for there is no power but from God, and those Hi, seldom seen. jained of God. Therefore he that resisteth ‘istoth the ordinance of God; and they that) mrchaseth to themselves St. Mary’s Rem: It bad thrown a, 0 such mournin; bond they all turned to} ent a8 at a fanoral ‘The entire nation had been smitten ; every loyal household } every man, woman and ch = per oss. Verily in the midst of triumph God had| us and mourn. is ev remarkable 4 the min the miael lof © national triumph called to. mou ™® ‘Then the nation . nation turned itse God—and confessed , astability of all human tions to wi AD ep e just so modest ‘Now Christ is raised we rejoice. words in the bridal chamber, we do not use them im Jeasure; we always find them more appropriate ‘When friends are dead then we Id bewailed as if with} ’ and when duty called be scrupi! man, but thie ¢1 He had a singular “'s eat the midst a and said, “ shall be exalted!" andthe erime hed been comfaitted and come upon us £0 suddenly as to be almost supernatural, "This was a lesson from God for our good. KM taught us the nearer we came to God the more we feel His power, Such was the lesson of death—the death of our good and honored President. Many would have given their life to hold back the hour of death. But yesterday, aa it were, he was in strength, holding the destiny of ‘thirty millions of people; to-day he was a lifeless corpse. At ithe touch of a Gnger of a flend thirty millions were com- pelled to mourn his loss. See him rejoicing for the na~ tion, and the next moment stricken down in his and gloty. And they all see how he died. All feel it} together, because it is the interest of all. There are many’ who have had death in their doors; but by none, and never, has death been felt as this—the lesson of thegey we have the same a 8 the grief consum- we,¢ but very dimly black folds of draper, anthems the minor notes of grief. — our overmuch joy -t choking sobs of sorrow which we: ] if not an untoward conjunctio events which calls us, on our first ccoupetion of tits ‘ oe “ be but the earnest of a J #t the sadness of the how serve to Impress upon our hearts and minds the respon. lies we owe each other as members of a common ou et us be bound as a people closely together. tus our mutual burthens bear; let us share our mu. y with the act! was honest, kindly, ito believe in tl representations to a degree from Romans, weak in the position to wh! been counterbalanced nt in form, the darkness upo Broaaway Tabernacle. DISCOURSE OF THE REV. DR. THOMPSON. ‘Tho church was crowded to overflowing, the aisles an@ levery available space being occupied. The Rev. Dr. Thompson selected as the text for hie morning’s discourse the forty-sixth and forty-seventh verses, of the eighteenth Psalm—‘The Lord liveth, ‘and blossed be my reck ; and Jet the God of my salvation be exalted. It is God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people unto me.” The reverend gentleman sald that this day completed the twentieth year of his pastor- late over the Broadway Tabernacle church, and it was bie intention to have prepared a discourse adapted to the oceaaion; but the startling news of yesterday morning had determined him te postpone that preparation unti® the next Sabbath. Abraham Lincoln is dead; William 1H. Seward languishes under the blows of an awassin The head of the nation, who had grown to be its head tm thought and plan a8 well as in government—he whose ad come to be confessed by all (as wise, just land true—he whose Jeadership was felt by many to be ‘even more serviceable in the settioment of peace than m ithe conduct of war—has fallen by the hand ‘ofan assassin. ithe representative of the nation before foreign Powers, chief counsellog of the Exeoutive, who, from the bed of pain, hed dictated @ procia- merting the honor and dignity of the country before all maritime Powers, and who ie ished for culvare and breadth of intellect, as well cannot restrain church, to mourn to; true Christian sympathy. 2 with indignation. will and an amount of common sense, the like of which \ that drage ov! hear of or read of but to be deeply mo 7 one fell hound, by one Satanic ene! to its utmost of damni f woe and desolation, and striker ite forces ‘its deadly mie- @ persons of the Presi- ag they were citizens, the powsr ree Such has been the liberality and zeal this new ohurch enterprise that although Tonatea 6 Year ago with nothing in the treasury, the wardens and: ‘expect to have the whole expenses of ground and “butiding, amounting to about $100,000 cleared off by the fall. A collvetion of $8,000 cl the services towards Sy a Pe ie ey ‘ato the national bi the nationa | life in a vidual Rad any authority to ‘of a wrong, if, indeed, Madison Ave fore which wick ¢ Presbyterian Church. THE REV. DR. WILLIAM ADAMS. _ Thechurch of the Rev. Dr. Adams, at the corner Twenty-fourth street and Madison avenue, was crowded ito excess yesterday morning. ‘ngs, as well as the columns and balconies, were draped ‘in black and white, and the whole internal appearance} of the sacred edifice was solemn and impressive in the take it in a legal and order!: he hekd up in g! Church of th =n THE REV. Dm oant rpmeesl = nite ‘Thore was a rp And fashionable attendance yes- at the Rev. Dr. Ongood’ of Twenty-cighth street and Medoon pc othe sanctuary was decorated for Easter servicer, with wreaths of flowers and other pechdecclhg padre! A national fag covered with crape indi- ‘oated the mourning of the congregation for the sudden and terrible death of our late President, After singing an appropriate hymn prayer was offered bt dh tnd Dr. — in which « feeling allusion @ nation’s low The: pm apamaptha, wl fat nine ito rejoice for in the memories brought to us by the feati- ‘and they were sad; they all mourned as a nation, for the| father of our country was laid low, household in the city that did not feel as if they hyd Jot a noar relative, a dear friend, a kind father, "We! should bless Almighty God that we were a nation, andpgand sea; the early breath of spring biew calmly upon flowers adorning our national banner; everything tended to the cessation of war and the return of peace. Buthow’ changed was all this! By a sud Is treacherous askassin the President of the United States has been taken away from us, and from Jey the whole| nation has been thrown into mourning. that this was wot the first time that such a thing bad oo- Richard the First was shot at his own table; and Menry the Fourth of France was brutally But there is no parallel in history to the terrible and barbarous act which has just occurred to lay our good and honest President in the grave ful, usoleas, uncalled for murder was never before per. If ever any man deserved the reavect and yw foilowing other shadows a8 ‘A few days since and there uarter—light Mi) - long ou hie Tight ra peace, he air with ite sw is ‘bh. And from ‘to the shadows “ward on our dial pl vresatve that we horror of assassination The pulpit and surround. the eyes of bis congregation. ‘was the only man who could 80) ‘have met the nation’s need. But God to bless him ; hi In this chureh the Rev, Father O'Farrell delivered at} ‘the early mane some feeling and impresstve remarks on ‘the murder of Mr, Lincoln before s congregation Ned every part of the sacred edifice, He seid:— the dreadful calamity whi ‘The Rev. Dr. Adams preached a most eloquent sermon. He said that this day was the anniversary of the fesar-| rection of our blessed Lord from the dead, and as a day’ lof joy celebrated and observed among all Christians. He had expected to have met his cot rejoice} ingregation to Instead of condoling with them, ‘There was everything val of the Resurrection; but alas! we were also called upon to mingle sorrow with our joys in bewaill the lone of the honored head of ue nation. re la fow days and the country was in the heigl of We rejoicing for our numerous victories by and) There was not a Uitte him. Our dnty now We tapray for 3 tnt that we were able “3 = Dicered God for the vi havd that struck down to stand by our banner. hee, bot ions. The wieked . jan Lincoln was lik hand of the tansgromsor who nailed our Bavior to the tveth! Our leaders are swept Our counsellors and deliverers are fallen in the God of our salvation ie still exalted. Tehall ‘unjurt to me and to you to at imperfeot notice) of the char- That ie @ failed them for t. ‘¢ before to. @ not our armien beem b gate: . ta miscarried? Has not n ial diet lon troke at the hand of tional disso) ‘ton entleman read length rom the Seripturem when tue choir aang: to-day (It wore Tt may be said ‘the kitiduers of h peak upon such i rvices of the ight out of da tkness? The futm@ histo. [i mor I at that crisis, no thin, “ry! of the Ai werk jevout his lorian—and devout ¢mtronomer, is med joint God watd let there be light and there wes is dealing of God with ue int te confidence for similar dealing in completes His work In the world, incomplete in nature. or arawe, eee When sail ing i An Joy, and pence and thee. weet’ po then ascended the ‘er higdivcourse. He took h incoln than by remin you of an incident which oocurred but a short time ome of his follow townsmes and when about to bid bi if there was anyth! could do for him, and the reaponse be made wae “Yes, pray for me’—a0 wneramoled ia tha bit i DR. CUMMINGS. and splendid Catholic edifice in ¢ which the Rev. Dr, Cummings ‘vy erowded yesterday morning congregation, among whom {ifferent persuasions, The inbors have an end? leurred in history. han once ta say ik Beemed more h OPe- pulpit and proceed: =""Ponce be 8 text from Bt. J Unto you," sald, came to us from our risen Savior that day to oor own bh sy ‘what we wanted. A stricken quite sure that God would comfort sleep and his meals, ar: own health and intere ys duty to the We hands of a 4 benoath the The now po; pular Twenty-cighth streot, 0, in the pastor, ‘was douse, & highly fashionabl le night be notiond . We hardly knew , ” giant, and swung it te rame to Uheir altare Ho leavog oF ppovidence,” In some!