The age-herald., 1901-09-20

 church. had charge of the choir, which numbered thirty-five singers, including representatives of nearly all the promi- nent choirs of the city. As the troops filed into the church Miss Mccoy played Glover's beautiful funeral march.
 At precisely o'clock pr. Simpson arose and began the services by reading hymn. 4s2, Lead Kindly Light" by Cardinal Newman, which was said to have been MT. McKinleys favorite; and the congrega- tion rose to its feet and Joined the choir in singing 1t.
 After the hymn came prayer by Dr. Davidson, and then Scripture reading by Dr. Dickinson-the 90th Psalm, beginning, Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations"
 Following the lesson the chair sang hymn 575, "onward Christian soldier''
 Gods Wil Be Done."
 Dr. Simpson made a short address by way of introducing the speakers. He said the people were assembled in response to President Roosevelt's proclamation. It was surely befitting he said, that this first proclamation should call upon the men and women of the country to assem- ble in places of worship that they might mingle their tears and give expression to their grief, and offer their prayers that peace and prosperity might reign over this nation. He referred tenderly to the last words of the President, Gods will be done" We are Christian people, he said. and we come to express our sorrow and also our trust in God. The man who lived 80 nobly has left behind him the glorious testimony that 1t is not all of life to live nor all of death to die.
 Dr. Simpson then turned to MT. Rhodes and introduced him to the audience.
 With a voice clear but full of sadness. MT, Rhodes delivered his address, which follows:
 Mr. Rhodes Tribute.
 "sometimes God moves in most mys- terious way His lessons to impress upon mankind. The cruel, cowardly assassina- ton of a President of the United States in the first year of the new century calls an instant halt to the work of the civil ized world. causing pause from daily tasks and duties long enough for right eous indignation and grief and thought and contemplation, whereby the human race will be lifted up to a loftier resolve to meet the responsibilities of the years to come. s -st- -..s e-.
 "Walliam Mckinley did not live, and did not die in vain. By his life and by his death he left the richest legacy ever be- queathed to the people of America by any citizen, in private or public life.
 Time forbids even rapid review or enumeration of the strong points in his character or the gentle traits in his dis position. He seemed to have been in- spired by the ancient crest of his Scottish ancestry-'a mailed hand holding an olive branch'-resoIute in the performance of duty, gentle dn all else. He walked in the footsteps of his forefathers. but to higher eminences. They were church people and Method1sts: he was Methodist. They were iron manufacturers and protection- ists: he was a protectionist. They bore arms in time of battle, and right valiantly did he. When war was over they quit fighting. and so did he; and in the full ness of time he became the very Apostle of Peace reunitlng his country in holy bonds of fraternity. and in his last speech promulgating policy of peace for all the nations of the earth.
 Shot By DeIuded Wretch. "And this great man. and good man, happy under a hospitable roof. the very air laden with welcome and good cheer, wearing smile on his benign counte- nance, with his hand extended for cor dial greeting, Is shot down by deluded wretch, without notice, without warning, suddenly as lightning from a clear sky. Those bullets were aimed at every one of you. and every law-abiding and liberty loving citizen-at law and order and con- stituted authority. No human being had any grievance against William Mckinley, the man; fanatical hater of all law and liberty murdered the head of the govern ment, the President elected and inaugu- rated under the law by the free people of our so-called free country. But 1t is not a free land while communism finds shell ter here. The nobiest monument the American people can raise to the memory of William Mckinley will be the enact- ment of statutes. both State and Federal, which will sound the death knell of an- archy in America now and forever.
 1"Of all the vast throng which on that fateful day, Friday. September 6. crowded the Music Hall. the stricken one, the suf- ferer alone, remained calm and cool. for getfui of self and mindful of another: 'Corteiyou, my wife! Don't tell her. Don't