It usually begins with a Christian doxology and a short prayer, followed by a hymn such solid traditional fare as Faith of Our Fathers or O God, Our Help in Ages Pastled .
Longtime resident of Washington (as head of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition, and Public Morals), Bishop Hughes knows the city as he knows the doxology.
He asked his children to sing the doxology with him, and they struggled through it, praising God, "from whom all blessings flow.