Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1.
Frank Moore, Ed.

Sunday at the Capitol at Washington.--Rev. Dr. Weston, Chaplain of the Seventh Regiment of New York, preached in the Hall of the House of Representatives on Sunday, April 28, and the Regiment improvised a choir of 20 choice singers. The services were as follows:

morning service.

Voluntary,	By the Band.
Chant,	Venite.
Chant,	Benedictus.
Psalm,	“For Thou, O God, art seated high.”
Hymn 171, 3,	“Guide me, O Thou great Jehovah.”
Voluntary	By the Band.

Evening service.

Voluntary,	By the Band.
Psalm 47, L. M.	“Portuguese Hymn.”
Ms. “My country, 'tis of thee,”	America.
Voluntary,	By the Band.

At 10 1/2 A. M., the Regiment, except those on guard, was mustered for worship. The decorations of the interior — gilding, painting, enamel, oak, marble, and velvet — blended together to the eye in the dim, religious light, that falls from the ceiling: The reporters' gallery afforded a place for the band; the speaker's desk, tapestried with the country's flag, held the Bible and Prayer-Book of the chaplain; and the choir ranged themselves in the clerk's circle below. The Regiment nearly filled the floor and galleries, and the whole scene was impressive.

The opening voluntary swelled to the remotest corner of a room better adapted to proper musical effect than any ever entered before.

The words of the Collect--“Defend us, thy humble servants, in all assaults of our enemies; that we, surely trusting in Thy defence, may not fear the power of any adversaries” --had a meaning never felt before.

The chaplain selected for his text the 39th verse of the Sermon on the Mount:

But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.