Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1901 — PRESIDENT SINGS IN CHVRCH [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PRESIDENT SINGS IN CHVRCH

President Roosevelt attends divine service at the German Reformed church, of which the Rev. Dr. J. M. Schick is pastor. The church is situated at Fifteenth and O streets, Northwest, Washington. The church is a small brick structure with a slate roof, and the regu-

lar congregation is only 21. The following telegram from Washington tells of the president’s first Sunday at this church. The service on Sunday was the President joined with the congregation in singing the hymn, “Jesus, the Hope of Israel, the Desired of All Nations.” The pastor announced as his text Ephesians iil, 17-19: “That

Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth and length and depth and height; and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that we might be filled with the fullness of God.”

LITTLE CHAPEL OF THE DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH IN WHICH PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT WORSHIPS. IT IS THE SMALLEST CHURCH BUILDING IN THE CAPITAL.