Show Where the Battle Hymn Was Written The use of the Willard Hotel as a temporary White House by President President dent and Mrs Coolidge brings to th the forefront notable Incidents of the past in connection with willi that famous old hostelry says sas the tho National Republican Re Re- publican Abraham Lincoln went from this hotel to the Capitol to be bo Inaugurated Inaugurated inaugurated rated on March 4 1861 General Grant stopped at the Willard Willard Wil- Wil lard when he was called to Washington Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington to be given supreme command of the army by President Lincoln He lie was s so little known at that time that he was was was' half finished with his breakfast before any anyone one recognized him Lincoln himself had neverseen never neverseen neverseen seen him Golden haired hatred and golden voiced Jenny LInd the sweetest singer that thai ever eYer came to America from foreign shores was a guest at the Willard when she gave two concerts In Washington back In the days ol ot Henry Clay and President Millard Dollard Fillmore Filimore During the dark days Civil war war Julia Julia Ward Howe visited the national nal capital with a number of ol friends including Governor and Mrs Mr Andrew of ot Massachusetts and her ber pastor R Rev T. T James Freeman Clark They stopped at the Willard It was wal in a room at this hotel that Mr Mrs Howe wrote her world famous song The Battle Hymn of the Republic Re- Re public Many years yean ago the author related related related ed the incidents ts of the writing of the great hymn as follows One day we drove out to a are are- re review review re- re view of troops some distance from the city The day was fine and everything passed off well but a sudden surprise on the part of ot the enemy interrupted the proceedings before they were well begun A small body of our men had been surrounded and cut off from their companions reinforcements were sent to their assistance and the expected expected expected ex ex- ex- ex pageant was necessarily given up We turned our horses' horses heads homeward For a long distance the foot soldiers filled the road They J were before us and and behind us and w we were obliged 10 to drove drive very 8 slowly lowly I I We pres presently nUy beg began began n to sing slag fi some some me of ot the well known songs of the war I I and among them John Browns Brown's Body Lies a In the Grave GraTe This seemed to please the soldiers Who who cried Good for you And they themselves took up the strain Mr Clarke said to me me You ought to write some new words worde to that tune time I I 1 replied that I had often wished to do so M MIn Ow OwIn In spite ot the excitement of the tM day I went to bed and slept as usual but awoke next morning In the gray of the early dawn and to my ray astonishment astonishment as as- I as-I i found that the wished wished- for lines themselves In my brain I hastily arose saying saying- i to myself I shall lose this It If I dont don't write it down Immediately I searched searched search search- ed for a sheet of ot paper and an old stump of a pen that I had i before and began to scrawl the lines almost without looking Having completed that I Ilay lay down again agal and fell asleep but not without without feel feeling feel feel- ing that something of ot Importance had bad happened to me Where Is the person who has not sung these gripping words Mine 1 eyes have seen the glory lory of the coming of the Lord lie He is trampling out the vintage where the gra grapes es of ot wrath are stored He lie hath bath loosed the fateful lI lightning of His Ills terrible swift sword His Ills truth Is marching on REFRAIN Glory glory hallelujah Glory mory glory hallelujah Glory glory hallelujah His truth Is marching on I I I I have seen Him In the watch fires of a hundred circling camps cams 1 They have slim Him an altar in inthe inthe inthe the evening dews and damps I can read Ills righteous sentence by bythe bythe bythe the dim and flaring lamps His day is marching on on Refrain I have read a fiery flery gospel writ In burnished rows of steel As ye deal with My Iy so with you My grace shall deal Let the Hero lIero born of woman women crush the serpent with his heel Since God is le marching on Retrain on-Retrain Refrain He lie has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat He is sifting out the hearts of men before Ills His judgment t seat Be De swift my DIY soul to answer Him Himi I I be jubilant my feet Our God is marching on on Refrain In the beauties of the lilies lilies' Christ was born across the sea With Witha With a a glory in His HIs' bosom that transfigures you and me me As Ae 8 He died to make make- men holy letus let letus us die dle to make mak men met fr free While God Is marching marching on Refrain |