Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-09-24

they can now do is to pray.
Eternal rest grant 10 him. Of
Lord, and let perpetual light shine up
on his soul"
He is gone. and forever. We will
see him no more on this earth.
And who woul refuse to join in the
doiors' of the widowed wife? Almost
on the Threshold of the tomu herself.
she is forced to look into the open
grave of the husband she loved al
most to worship. She is robbed OF
his society and soothing care, and tire
less devotion And now her dying
heart is breaking in lonely sorrow,
o. may the God of consolation sus.
tain and comfort her and on the last
day, when the race of God speaks into
the grave of her lost husband may
she see him come forth in resurrected
beauty and glory, to be reunited to
her again in the everlasting love of
happy eternity. We weep for our
murdered President, we condole with
his relict and we mourn for our coun-
try.
Society is sick The cataclysm of
today is but symptom of diseased
condition. Were the late Mr.. Nc
kinley able to cast aside his bloody
shroud and speak to us. he might well
say, as our Lord said to the weeping
Jewish women, in the Holy City:
Weep not for me, but for your
children"
Will Our children have home and
a free country here? Are our liber-
ties about to die? Well may we fear,
and fly to God in prayer for the protec-
ton of our country. Think of tan
anarchist born here in the very sane
tuary of liberty. has brought us to
| shame. and sorrow. If anarchy wax
strong, then worse than death awaits
our children and the country of our
love.
What is anarchy but brute economy
in practice? No law, civil or religious,
and no moral restraint. Therefore no
property rights and no marriage Will
our country go down to deeper depths
than Pagan Greece or Rome? We
must examine our consciences and do
our individual duty. We must have
true concepts of duty. Gov
eminent is not mere So
cial pact. We are social be-
ings and therefore we must give up all
individual rights that conflict with the
public good. Government comes from
God to our republic through us. The
home is the unit of society everywhere.
| If the homes are Goddess, SO will be
society, for stream never can rise
| above its source. Goddess society, as
history proves, cannot stand. Hence
the churchless, and graceless family
is the enemy today of stability of gov
ernment We must teach the young to
fear and love God, to be honest and
to remember that the government does
not owe them living, but that they
one and all owe the country living,
even if the giving of life be necessary
thereto.
We must respect law and our elected
servants, who represent law, and the
God who is behind law From our
homes, if our republic is to live must
come God-fearing and law loving sons
and daughters.
Let us pray for our country. Let
Us ask our Heavenly Father to accept
the blood of our trinity of mari Jred
Presidents for the nourishment of
patriotism among our peoples. God
| save America And console Mrs. Nc
Kinley. God be merciful to him whom
We mourn today.
Ladies and gentlemen, thank YOU.
Captain Evans Address.
Captain Evans said:
The world is made up of tragedies,
OF sadness, of sorrow, of Affections of
body and of mind, that if given the
choice to live the life over again, en-
during all its experiences, the vast
majority of those who have passed the
prime of life, would shrink from the
ordeal and face rather the unknown
future that lies beyond the grave.
Such sorrows come to all, rich or
poor, bond or free; there is no escape
from death through bribery of any
kind; the gold of all the earth cannot
purchase moment of life for the
dearest object of affection and love.
1t has been SO in all the ages; kings
in their fancied plentitude of power
have been suddenly and rudely awak-
ened to the fact that they and theirs
are subject to the same natural laws
that govern the meanest of mankind:
their dearest and best die much in the
same way that the peasant child dies;
and the women who weep in the
palace have to endure the burden
same as the women who keep in the
howell: E'The air is full of farewells to
the dying and MORNINGS for the
dead"
1t is no doubt a wise Providence
that thus teaches the equality of
mankind in the sight of the Creator,
by making visible to us the democ-
racy of death, and yet the world is not
left without consolation through the
precious promises of Holy Scripture
and the inmate consciousness of the
soul that there is life beyond the
tomb. II it were not for these divine
pledges and promises that bear testi-
mony within themselves to those who
believe, the world would be dark, and
the future hopeless region of de-
spair.
1t is when great Affections come,
either to ourselves or to those in
whom we feel deep interest, that
these things press upon the mind with
unusual force, and today in the pres
\ ence of the sad visitation that has fall
len upon the country in the death from
violence of the President of the Unit
ed States, man beloved by his coun-
trymen, we are oppressed seemingly
beyOnd measure.