The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-16
AT CoLLEGE-AvENU BAPTIST.


At the College-avenue Baptist Church
yesterday morning Rev. w. c. Taylor al
luded TO the assassination of President
Mckinley. His text was: Isaiah. vi, l. I'm
the year that King Uzziah died 1 saw also
the Lord sitting upon throne, high and
lifted up" He said in part:
Tender words these. We use them to-
day. We measure the fight Of the years
from that time when some loved one died.
To-day We turn over a new leaf in our ma
tional calendar. Henceforth we shall be
saying, In the year that William Mckinley
died
1.-The thought calls for reflection. God
wants His people TO enjoy the highest
blessings. Such is His revealed will. In
our weakness our blessings sometimes In
terVene till We lose sight OF God, and He
takes them away. AS long Uzziah lived
Israel was peaceful, prosperous, satisfied
When he died faith looked up. and saw the
majesty OF God. Our Nation is in that at
titude to-day. History fails to name the
man who commanded the confidence of the
world, who gave assurance of peace among
the nations, prosperity In all lines OF trade
and security and permanency of safe polit-
ical policies did William Mckinley. So
long as he was at the head of the Nation
IT was easy for our people and the nations
THE story of his career has been told.
His life is an open book before all people.
Its pages are unblotted We loved him as
a brother, for he was a man of the people
He gave his life TO the service OF the peo-
pie, and ever sought to express their will.
His fellowship was without self-seeking;
his policies inspired confidence; his man
agement of the crises in the Spanish and
Chinese wars are enough alone TO shed
luster on the greatest throne the world has
ever had. He has brought our Nation to
the front of all the nations of the earth. In
his death all Europe loses helper, and
the Asiatic nations lose a friend. he did
more than any world ruler that has ever
lived to establish international confidence
and promote the worldwide brotherhood of
man. AS President OF the United states
He was not lacking in those gifts OF intel
plect and graces of heart with which such
position should be adorned. His states
manship was of the highest order. He rose
to great emergencies with superb courage
and calm self-sacrifce. His administration
was troubled with wars whose issues Tore
BODIED international strife, and burdened
with bereavements under which the heart
often breaks. Through IL all he was UNI
swerving from duty. and faithful to the ut
a man of faith. He feared the Lord God.
He honored his Savior. To him the church
was the house of the Lord and the Sab
bath holy day. Great in his goodness
and good in his greatness his fall leaves
a gap through which We await visions that
shall disclose new, fresh lessons of a divine
dealing.
president Mckinley fell under condi-
lions sheltered and nourished under our
own flag until they grew into lusty viii
lainy.
Our policy has been protection. We
have protected too much. Anarchy, law
lessness have been permitted to find shelter
were meant to dwell. From nests that we
have ourselves protected the viper sprang
forth and sent its fangs to the heart of the
Nation. We can blame no one but our
selves. 1t Is Gods thought that We should
hate the evil. We need TO see God $ mai
esty and holiness in new vision so that,
like the prophet Samuel, our Nation shall
rise up in It's might and hew down the
Anarchist Agas hip and thigh
I'VE have had a spell of sickly senu-
mentalism which has done much to popu-
larize crime and distinguish the villain. 1t
is the murderer who gets his name anG
face into the papers and flowers and sweet
meats sent to his cell. 1t is perfectly nat
ural that in the minds of many ill-advised
degenerates, TO be a criminal is 10 be
hero.
I'm the atmosphere of sentimentalism
the righteousness of law has been forgot
ten; Gods wrath against sin has been
eliminated from theology and the claims
OF holiness spurned. Thus life has been
cheapened, the home, the church and the
State have lost their sanctity; men easily
become tools in the mill Of toll for man.
mon service or dupes for some strange fas-
cnation for crime whose end is destruc-
ton.
I'm this sense our great President fell
victim of conditions born and bred in our
own land and under our own flag.
This stioD is - ~ His piantine His hand
writing is in all its history. When we for
get that and allow IL to become the nesting
place of serpents shall have to suffer.
When we forget God and set up mammon
instead and so rob men of the Sabbath and
the church and deny them time for the
Bible and prayer, reducing them TO tools
for toll and the schemes of designing men,
we shall still protect the conditions out of
which will rise up again and again the evil
which Smites and destroys.
The sacrifice is great; the cost is severe,
but If il turn our Nation back TO the right
eousness of God in government so that all
men become His stewards and all transac-
tons between man and man become reve-
lations of righteousness, then In penitent
faith accept the chastisement and
bless God for the new vision that will
shine upon us out Of heaven from where
our beloved and honored President fell.