On NOVEMBER 1, 1800, John Adams became the first U.S. President to move into the White House.
The following day he wrote a letter to his wife, Abigail, in which he composed a beautiful prayer.
A portion of John Adams' prayer was inscribed on the mantlepiece in the State Dining Room by President Franklin D. Roosevelt:
"I
pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this house and all that
shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule
under this roof."
Beginning
with Thomas Jefferson and continuing till after the Civil War, church
services, attended by sitting Presidents, where held each Sunday in the
U.S. Capitol House Chamber, with attendance reaching over 2,000, making
it the largest Protestant Sabbath audience in the nation.
After
the White House was finished being built, the next building constructed
on Lafayette Square was St. John's Episcopal Church.
Nearly
every President since James Madison worshiped there at least once,
resulting in Pew 54 being designated for the First Family.
Get the book, Prayers and Presidents-Inspiring Faith from Leaders of the Past Other historic Washington, D.C. area churches include:
Christ Church in Alexandria, where President Washington attended;
National Presbyterian Church, where Truman attended;
New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, where attended Presidents:
William
Henry Harrison, James K. Polk, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham
Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Benjamin Harrison, Dwight Eisenhower, and
Richard Nixon, and where Senate Chaplain Peter Marshall was pastor from
1937-1949;
James
Monroe donated toward the church bell of All Souls Church, which was
attended by John Quincy Adams, and later William Howard Taft;
Metropolitan Memorial United Methodist Church was attended by William McKinley;
Holy Trinity Catholic Church, where John F. Kennedy attended.
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In 1909, President Theodore Roosevelt, who was a member of the Dutch Reformed Church, stated:
"After
a week on perplexing problems...it does so rest my soul to come into
the house of The Lord and to sing and mean it, 'Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord
God Almighty'...
(My) great joy and glory that, in occupying an
exalted position in the nation, I am enabled, to preach the practical
moralities of The Bible to my fellow-countrymen and to hold up Christ as
the hope and Savior of the world."
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