John Chester is buried at Glenwood Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia.
The Lesson of the Hour. Justice as Well as Mercy: A Discourse Preached on the Sabbath Following the Assassination of the President, in the Capitol Hill Presbyterian Church, Washington, D.C. (1865)
A Sermon Preached on Sabbath, September 25, 1881, on the Lessons of the Life and Death of James Abram Garfield, Late President of the United States, in the Metropolitan Presbyterian Church, Washington, D.C. (1881)
Eulogy on the Late Rev. Edwin R. Bower, D.D., John C. Baldwin Professor of Theology, Professor of the Connection Between Science and Religion, and Dean of Lincoln University, Delivered Before the Philosophian Literary Society, Lincoln University, Pa., December 7th, 1883 (1883)
Earthly Watchers at the Heavenly Gates: The False and the True Spiritualism (1886)
Ruth, the Christian Scientist, or, The New Hygeia (1888)
Ye Shall Not Tempt the Lord Your God (1889)
