The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-09-30
Britain, the leading empire on the

| "sseio"s w WuiOH 0AOhCS O"A A~"SA~aA
stands second. reading the same Bible
moulded by the same christianity,
speaking the same anglo.sax0n tongue
and SO able both to work most effect.
lively together for the worlds millen-
MUM, for the universal diffusion Of
liberty, for the reign of peace and
good will. The thrObs Of sympathy
have been the deep heart pulsations
of two christian nations. governed
by christian rulers, doing homage to
christian virtues. The kilograms ex.
changed between prime Minister
Gladstone and the Cabinet at Wash.
ingtOn are models, in their expression
of the sympathy Of christian states.
men, and the British nation seem
moved as one man. Says the English
Pail Mall Gazette "there will be scarce.
ly one Englishman in thousand who
will not read of President Garfield s
death with regret as real and as deep
as though he had been the ruler of
our own country. A communion Of
sorrow unites the members Of
the English race to-day more closely
than it has ever been united since
1916" The London Times says Seen.
Gariield's has been noble career,
heroic in its beginning, in its long
struggle, and in its end. Every hour
increases the evidence that the pres.
ent is the most remarkable demon
stration Of sympathy ever witnessed
In Europe" Lord Churchill said,
speaking at Woodstock, ''during the
struggle of President Garfield with
death, England and America watched
at his bedside"
The Lord Mayor of London tele.
graphed, "there never was a time
when great English communities
were joined in closer bonds" The
Mayor Of Liverpool telegraphed, ~
assure you have never known deeper
feeling shown by all classes in Liv.
erpOOl than on this mOurnful occa-
sion." $50 prominent members of
London stock exchange telegraphed
the New York exchange for time
of joint recognition Of the sad event.
Lord Brabason writes the London
Times, ut is to lie hoped that an ear
ly opportunity of q public expression
Of the deep and heartfelt sympathy of
all classes in the united kingdom will
be given" Yet more tender and
beautiful in expression than all others
have been the messages Of England's
christian queen, bereaved herself Of
one of the noblest christian cOnsOrts,
to Mrs. Garfield the sorrowing wild.
Ow Of the dead President, the last of
which reads, Swords cannot express
the deep sympathy feel with you.
May God support and comfort you as
He alone can" Nor does history
record an act of more delicate love.
illness and graceful moral beauty than
that of the Queen at the British lega.
ton directing by telegraph that a
large wreath Of white rOsebuds be
laid on the foot Of the coffin, attached
to card on which were the words
"Queen Victoria to the memory of
President Garfield, an expression OF
her sorrow and sympathy with Mrs.
Garfield and the American Nation"
What but such a death could give
us such cementing moral forces, such
deep heart sympathies and such
grateful and hallOwed memories for
the great future.
Finally, the providence of God that
SO ordered to take from us by death
one so much esteemed, so much hon.
Ored and beloved, has thus published
far and wide another testimony to
the Christian faith. This it was that
made Garfield's moral greatness, and
the homage Of the world to his life and
this death. is a conscious or uncon.
scious homage to Christianity. It'll
shall ever be his browning glory in the
future that he was Christian states.
man. With beautiful appropriate
ness as the funeral train approached
the Capital did the band Of music
select as funeral dirge, "Nearer my |
God to Thee ;" and the hymns chosen
for the service, "Jesus Lover of my
Soul" and "Asleep in Jesus, Blessed
Sleep" were chosen because favorites
Of his. His body will moulder in the
grave, but his spirit lives on-soars
upward, has been translated. 1t is
not for him we have need to mourn |
nor is the moral power of his life
dead. No assassin can murder that |
" and by it being dead he yet speak
eth" He speaks to-day in ten thous.
and pulpits he shall speak to-mor.
row to fifty millions Of people--to a |
Nation officially hushing all other
sounds and draped in mourning garb
that it may more reverently listen.
The voices shall he echoed back from
across the deep Atlantic; and
they shall swell on into the living
future to uplift and ennoble tho states |
manship of the Nation and of christ.
endOm.
When the Nation prayed for his |
life it was for the Nations sake, and
for the Nations sake God withheld
an answer to the words of the prayer
that He might more divinely respond
to its spirit. AS a patriot. he had
lived for the Nation. God also order.
ed that he should die for the Nation.
Since by his death he would achieve
grander results for the Nation and for
the world, than could have been q.
chieved by his life. And He who
thus cares for the Nation, can guide
its future, and He can comfort the
bereaved household, whose sorrow Is
enshrined in the sympathy Of christen.
dom. May the same divine chris.
tianty uplift our lives, till 1t shall
glOrify them in the life eternal.
The ablest lawyers In Washington
are still in doubt whether the juris-
diction to try Guiteau lies in the Dis
trict Of Columbia or in New Jersey.
BY some 1t is held that as the Presi.
dent died In New Jersey Guiteau can
he tried ard nuniahad In thu DiafrictI