REFERENCES IN THE CHURCHES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 75, 30 March 1914, Page 7

REFERENCES IN THE CHURCHES

References to the tragedy were mad© in mahy of the city and suburban ciiurehcfc yesterday. At St. Mary of tho ■; Angels, Boulcott-strert. the Rev, Father Taylor earnestly exhorted members of his congregation to pray for those souls which had been snapped away with such ; terrible suddenness. When God chose to call people, as He had done in this in- ; stance, He often in His mercy; called those who were prepared. He offered ' prayers for the bereaved relatives. \ Similar references were made in the f evening by the Rev. Father Herring. At I St. Anthony's Church, Brooklyn, sym- \ pathetic references were made by the f Rev. Father Kimbell, and the oongrego- \ tio:i was exhorted to pray for those who j> had suffered. At the mission services nb j St. Joseph's Church. Buckle-street, the f rosary was said on behalf of those who [ had lost their lives., several of whom | were Catholics. " \ The Rev. Knowles Smith, speaking at> \ the Central Mission meeting in the New { Theatre, took for his text: "It "were < better that 1 die and not live."' "Wa f cannot solve thp problem of death and | "suffering." he said, "but we can better » iindeiEtnnd the lessons that come outoE f it." At the conclusion of the sti'viee . the Mission Silver Band played "The j; Garland of Flowers," the congregation I standing, i Special prayers were offered at St., Paul's Pro-Cathcdrul, nnd tha ftev. A. f M. Johnson referred feelingly to tha •, disaster dui ing the course of Ins sermon, ,| Touching lrferenoes to the tragedy f were made at practically all the churches ,l, l I iti the Hutt Valley. ' , - > At St. Anne's, Newtown, feeling men* 1 (.ion of the tragedy was made by the. f Yen. Archdeacon Devoy and Father J. v *-fc Herring. , ,' \ Earnest prayeia for the victims andi [ the bereaved were offered by the Rev. I Hcrries at St. Andrew's Presbyterian f Church. ' r