DR. TALMAGE ON PRAYING FOR GUITEAU.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1042, 30 January 1882, Page 2

DR. TALMAGE ON PRAYING FOR GUITEAU.

The Rev. 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 man of such splendid physique should be lacerated first by the bullet, then necessarily at the demand o/ surgical ■ skill, Until nothing but the 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 should lose her favorite son, and the nation orphaned because a brainless fool could not get foregin consulship. On the principle that all men, however bad, ought to be prayed for, I have tried for eight Sundays to get myself up to pray for that wretch, but I cant do it (Applause.) Perhaps before the day of 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 can do anything.