The Plymouth Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1878-1901, 1901-09-12
PRAYERS OFFERED
Pastors of Plymouth Churches Make
Touching illusions to the
Nations Sorrow.

In every church in this city Sunday
special prayers were offered for Presi-
dent Mckinley and in most of them
some alluSion was made in the sermon
touching the horrible crime. There
was an undercurrent of great anxiety
due to the fact that rumors were
set afioat in the morning to
the effect that the president was dead
and exact information was not OBJ
tanned until after the morning SER
vices.
At the Methodist church Rev. Nc
Kenzie, in the course of his last SER
mon of the present conference year,
depressed from him main subject to
express his thought as follows.
''Our president, who now lies at the
point of death in Buffalo, is man
whose kindness, gentleness and recti-
tude of purpose are acknowledged by
all, and his assassination by an
anarchist should cause us to realize
the fact that there are limits to free
speech. President Mckinley sprivate
life is without blemiSh, i'm the posi-
ton he occupies he represents the
American people, and while deploring
the attack upon lin and joining our
prayers with the millions that are go
ing up to heaven from every section
of our country that his life may be
saved, we cannot escape the fact that
there are influences in this republic of
ours which breed anarchy.
Everything that makes govern
ment less exalted than it should be,
every word spoken or written in the
heat of partisan feeling to unjustly
infiame passion and array class against
class, becomes an incentive for bitter
ness against all government, and 1
should hate to sit in the editorial
chair of many of the great city papers
which assume to direct the thought |
and the policies of this government.
We ought, under the shadow which |
hangs over US today learn to be better
citizens and have more respect for
those in authority"
Father Yenn, at st. Michael's,
spoke in the following terms: 1.-THE
infamous attack, recently made upon
the life of President Mckinley, is
dastardly crime, the gravity of which
words fail to express. Any murder
in cold blood. the I'M
warranted taking of a man S life, I'M
less it be in Self-defense-iS an execra-
bic deed, affecting not only the in
jured party, but disturbing public or
der as well. But the assassination of |
the chief magistrate of the land is
more than a murder. 1t is a blow
aimed directly at legitimate authori-
ty,-at the authority with which God |
himself has vested the ruler at the
of the people-it is blow at
the entire community, whose welfare
is inseparably bound up with the exer-
else of the authority of its ruler.
SIT is in this light that all Catholics
must view the sad affair, that will
ever remain a foul blot on the pages
of American history. Obedience, res
pect for legitimate authority, whether
temporal or spiritual, is one of the
most sacred duties of a Catholic. With
him it is not merely matter of pol
icy, inasmuch as it may appear the
best means of promoting his own hap
piness and that of his fellow-men, but
it is, moreover, matter of conscience,
which he cannot overlook or neglect
without proving faithless to the tenets
Of his church.
"Ine Catholic Cnufcn IS not cOnUenU
with being herself most implacable
foe to anarchy, but she deems it her
sacred duty to implant in the hearts
Of the young at an early age as deep a
hatred for everything that savorS of
anarchy, as she does docile and sub
missive spirit that will respect auth
oritv. For it is the same motive that |
should induce us to obey God and to
respect lawfully constituted superiors.
May God speed the entire recovery of
our President and avert impending
calamities from our beloved land."
Mso