DE TALMAGE ON PRAYING FOR GUITEAU.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2773, 11 February 1882, Page 2

DE TALMAGE ON PRAYING FOR GUITEAU.

The Eev. Dr Talmage, in an address in the Tabernacle, described a visit he paid to the White House last spring, when he saw President Garfield. ‘At times * he said, ‘ I am almost sickened,' body, mind and soul, that a mam of such splendid physique should be lacerated first by the' bullet, then necessarily, at the demand of surgical skill, until nothing but tne call of the Archangel can mend that robust frame, that a man all right should be put out of the world by a man all wrong—(applause)—that a brave woman should be made a widow, that an old mother shonld lose her favorite son,' and the nation orphaned because a brainless fool could not get a foreign consulship. On the principle that all men, however bad, ought tp be prayed for, I have tried for eight Sundays to get myself up to pray for that wretch, but I can’t do it. (Applause.) Perhaps before the day of his hanging I may grow in grace enough to pray for him, but until then I must leave it ,to the old ministers who have got so .good that they cab do anything.’