The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-09-16
md his lips feebly chanted
 Nearer my God to thee, Angels to beckon me
AT ST. PAUL's CHURCH.

At the services at St. Paul's church | yesterday the hymns and anthems were | such as the time suggests. The an- nouncement of the memorial service on | Thursday next at il o'clock was made. The full church choir will be present,
 and Fosters anthem "The Lives of the
 Righteous" will be sung, as also the | Burial Chant. An address will be | made
 | Yesterday morning the text of the sermon of the rector Rev, Dr. Lines, was II. Samuel xix, IA, David bowed | the heart of all the men of Judah even as the heart of one man." After refer ence to the historical connection of the text and the expression therein of the feeling of the people in the past week
 the sermon was in part as follows: 'The president lies dead like any oth- CT man, his work ended, his record in
 private and public life made up The first citizen among seventy millions of citizens of the great republic is dead. He has gone the way appointed for all men, and all are ready to speak his
 worth. Our praise or blame no longer affects him who lived out so many years
 in the fierce light of public life and po-
 litical contention. He rests from his
 labors.
 What strange and memorable
 week it has been! How fast history is
 made! If we had been asked ten days
 ago what great event might happen to
 affect the nation, to touch the hearts
 of this great people, what has now hap
 pened had perhaps come last to mind
 As regards our national life, the sky
 seemed cloudless General prosperity
 prevails. There is no political excite
 ment such as at the time when MT.
 Lincoln and MT. Garfield were shot-no
 agitation or excitement such as turns
 the heads of Unbalanced men and leads to violence. The president was begin ming his second term with everything favorable. A man of the people, he had as few presidents strong hold on the.great body of the people His dis position was peaceful and kindly. He desired to guide the nation rather than to rule. He mingled freely among the people, approachable, amiable, gentle, considerate, and it was in giving his fellow citizens an opportunity to meet him and to take his hand that he gave opportunity for the taking of his life He seems the last man in high place that any one would wish to kill. He had given no offense and no one could have a grievance against him. But we hang our heads and say that men in middle life can recall three presidents assassinated. We can understand how the lives of arbitrary rulers may be | sought by men smarting under the | sense of wrong, but it seems hard to | how our record in this par ticuar should be the worst among the | great civilized states"
 Speaking of the government during | Mr. McKinley's term of office, Dr. Lines said: There are new movements in the worlds life which make for good, | and our dead presidents S relation there | to is very honorable. There have been plenty of selfish and scheming men ? bout him, but his own purposes have been high"
 He spoke in high terms of MT. Me- 1 private life, saying that he had come through all temptations a simple minded, unspoiled, home-loving Christian man such as the American people love. Of yellow journalism Dr. Lines said:
 At such a time as this, when all hearts are touched as the heart of one nan, the remembrance of shameless and abuse of the dead, and of all public men, ought to come to nind Caricature and abuse pass be- yond all bounds in times of political excitement. Honesty, propriety, de- ,ency, justice, are forgotten in the hope # injuring an opponent and gaining