PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT.

Waiapu Church Gazette, 1 June 1933, Page 7

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT.

To all Christian people it must have been heartening to learn that Mr Roosevelt, as President-elect, chose to spend almost the final hour of his time as a private citizen m a church at prayer, and also to read his sermonlike inaugural address. To us, as Churchmen, it is indeed of marked interest to realise that this new Executive, to whom all the world today is looking, is a brother Anglican. At his own request, he, his family and members- designate of his Cabinet, spent an hour m old St. John's Church, opposite the White House, where the rector, together with the priest who officiated at the Roosevelt wedding twenty-eight years ago, conducted a prayer service m behalf of the man about to assume such extraordinary responsibilities. On the day following, the first Sunday m Lent, the President and his family attended St. Thomas's Church, and received Holy Communion. A service m observance of the inauguration was held that afternoon at Washington Cathedral. Certainly not within our memories has a presidential inauguration been marked with so distinct a spiritual tone, nor has there been one m which the influence of the Church has been so evident. President Roosevelt's inaugural address, an heroic, spiritual message, has served to unite the nation behind him m this eventful week m a way little of the miraculous. — "Church Times."