SHIPPING DISASTER

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 128, 1 June 1914, Page 2

SHIPPING DISASTER

PULPIT REFERENCES The disaster on the St. Lawrence was referred to in most of the church services in the city and suburbs yesterday. Rev. C. 11 . Harvey, in the course of his sermon at St. Paul's Pro-Cathedral, said that a wave of sympathy had passed round the world for the thousands of mourners. He alluded specially to the loss sustained by the Salvation Army. At St. Peter's Anglican Church, Archdeacon Harper made feeling reference to the loss of life caused by the sinking of the Empress of Ireland. Appropriate hymns were sung} and at the close of the evening service the organist pla-yed Chopin's Funeral March. The Rev. W. Shirer, preaching at St. James's Presbyterian Church, said the sorrow was intensified by the fact that, in the sudden call. Women and children had so greatly suffered. Special prayers were offered up for the relatives of the deceased by the Rev. Dr. Gibb at St. John's Presbyterian Church. The Rev. Father Hurley, S.M., speaking at Hfgh Mass at St. Joseph's Catholic Church, said the whole world would grieve for the sufferers by the awful tragedy, especially those who had lost those near and dear to them. He asked the prayers of the congregation for the repose of the souls of those who had perished. Similar allusions were made in the other Catholic churches. A Pentecqst service was held yes-terda-y at the Synagogue, at which the Rabbi, the Rev. H. Van Staveren, spoke in sympathetic terms of the mourners as a. result of the loss of the Empress of Ireland. References to the -tragedy were made at the Terrace Congregational Church by the Rev. J. R. Glasson. Special memorial services are to be held by the Salvation Army. Feeling allusion was made at the Sailors' Friend Society and the Seamen's Mission services to the marine disaster.