Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-09-19
BISHOP ANDREWS, EuLoGy.

l Nrhytus
Washington, SEPT IS. In bis sermon
at the Mckinley oDsequies at ths
| Capitol yesterday, Bishop Edward g. |
Andrews OF the Methodist Episcopal
Church said
Blessed lie the God and Father of
cur Lord, Who Of His abundant mercy
hath hegotten us again unto lively
hope Of the resurrection Of Christ from
the dead, to al inheritance incor-
ruptible, indebted, and that fadeth not
away, reserved In heaven for III who are
now, by the mower of God through faith
unto salvation, ready TO be revealed in
the last time.
The services for the dead are fifty
and almost Of necessity services of re.
ligion and of immortal hope In the
presence OF the snroud ana the coffin
and the narrow home questions concern
ing intellectual quality. CONCERNING
public station, concerning great achieve
nents. sink into comparative insignifi.
canoe, and questions concerning char.
acter and mans relation to the Lord
and GIver of life, even the life externally
emerge 10 our view and impress than.
selves upon US.
Character abides. We bring nothing
into this world; We can carry nothing
out. We ourselves depart with all the 40,
oumulntions OF tendency and habit and
quality which the years have given TO
u.s. We nsk, therefore, even at the
gravs OF the illustrious, not altogether
! what great achievement they had per-
J form ed aud how they had commended
themselves to the memory and affection
or respect of the world, hut chiefly of
what sort thay were, what the interior
nature Of the man was, what we're his
! alIiuitiea. Were they with the good,
! the true, the nobleg What his relation
to the infinite Lord of the universe and
, to the compassionate Saviour of man
, kind; what his fitness for thatgreat
. hereafter to which he had passed2
And such great questions come to US
: with moment, even 10 the hour when
we gather around the bier of those
: whom we profoundly respect and
i eu!oaize aud whom we tenderly love.
=, In the years to come the days and the
months that lie immediately before us
will give full utterance as to the high
Q statesmanship and great achievements
Q OF the illustrious man whom We mourn
today. We shall not touch them today.
The nation already has broken out In
its grief and poured its tenrs, and III
y still pouring Them, over the loss of q
d beloved man. 1t 10 well.
But we ask this morning of what sort
this man is, so that we may perhaps,
knowing the moral and spiritual life
that is past, be able to shape the far
Withdrawing future. think we must
all coIoede that nature and training
and-reverently be it said-the inbpira-
ton OF the Almighty conspired to con.
"a form man admirable 10 his moral
y temper and aims. We none of us can
| i snlr hot hy ot,,ra he
was eminenty gifted. The kindly, calm
and equitable temperament, the kindly
and generous heart, the love of justice
and right and the tendency toward faith
aud loyalty tu unseen powers and
. authorities these things must have
II been with him from, his childhood, from
his iufanoy but upon them superyeneo
the training for which he was always
tenderly thankful, Of which even this
great natl % from sea to sea continual,
has tnken note.
1t was humble home 10 which b,
was born. Marrow conditions wer.
around him; but faith in God haC
lifted that lowly roof, according to thu
pe statement of some great writer, up tt
W the very heavens and permitted i'll
n. q. Inmates to behold the things eternal
q. immortal and divine and he came unde
OF ibdh IL 10 q
er that to the end OF his life he ben
~ reyerently before that mother who's
le example and teaching and prayer had ST
W fashioned his mind and all his aims.
n, The school came but briefly, and thei
came to him the church with ministra
IN tion Of power. He accepted the trutl
en- which IL taught. He believed in Coz
G, d In Jesus Christ, through whom
70 God was revealed. He accepted tn
"a divine law of the Scripture; he baseI
,st his hope on Jesus Christ, the Iappointe
ne and only redeemer OF men; and tn
ng church, beginning Its operation upo
ise his character at an early period OF hi
its life, continued even to Its close to mol
no him. He waited attentively upon il
i ier minstrations. He gladly partook wit
his brethren of the symbols Of mys
nd FERROUS passion aud redeeIning love {
tie the Lord Jesus Christ He was helpfl
nat In all OF those benefcences and actiy
ties; and from the church, to the olof
~ of his life, he received inspirations ths
an lifted him above much of the troubl
and weakness incident to our huma
Ill nature. Blessings be to God, may "
the say; In the last and final hour the
the enabled him confidently tenderly,
I r., say. ut is His will, not ours. that wi
icy icy be done.''
Such influences gave to US Williai
an Mckinley. And what was he2 a ma
Of incorruptible personal and politics
on integrity. suppose no one ever a
an tempted to approach him in the way I
u, ~ a hribe; and we remember, with gieI
Ies felicitation at this timp for such a
IN, example to ourselves, that when gret
mes financial difficulties and perils encon
passed him he determined to deliver a
ere he possessed TO his creditors, that the
N. should be no challenge of his perfs
III honesty In the matter man OF iu
In maoulate purity, shall we say? No stai
ser was upon his eseutoheon; no syllable
hat suspicion that ever heard was viii
ct pered against his character. lie wake
In perfect and noble self cortrol
peg Bayond that this man had someho
.sat wrought in him-I suppose upon Il
was foundations of very happily col
ich struoted nature "a great and generol
hen love for his fellow-men. lie beiev,
cad in men. He had himself been brougl
70 up among the common people.
=, knew their laburs, struggles. necess
esn ties. He loved them, but | thir
,ia, beyond that 1t was TO the church ar
! to it's teachings concerning the fatherhot
yhn OF God and universal brotherhood
ing man that he was indebted for th
L. habit OF kindness, for that generosi
Of spirit that was wrought into h
very substance, and became him
that, though he was OF all men mo
courteous, no one ever supposed b