Evening star., 1901-09-19
AT MOUNT PLEASANT
Services Held at the Congregational
Church.

OuUrGHs
THREE ELOQUENT ADDRESSES
Assistant Secretary Campbell
Speaks of Mckinley as Man.
HIS MILITARY CAREER
| The service at the Mount Pleasant Con-
gregational Church this morning was one
| Of great simplicity and impressiveness.
The order Of the service was as follows:
Funeral march. Chopin; trio. Blessed are
the Pure in Heart" Hodges; devotional,
the pastor; Lead. Kindly Light" Miss
| Mary E. Pond: William Mckinley In Pri-
| vate Life" Hon. Frank L. Campbell:
| Sometime Well Understand" Mrs. Thos.
| c. Moves: William Mckinley the Soldier"
General Ellis Spear; "One Sweetly Solemn
| Thought" DR.. Charles L. Bliss; William
! Mckinley the Statesman Major Horace
| L. Piper; Nearer, My God. to Thee" the
! congregation; the benediction; postlude,
Dead March from Saul.
The beautiful hymn, Some Time Wen
Understand" sang by Mrs. Thomas c..
| Noyes, is the same which she sang at the
| Capitol during the services Tuesday, the
| hymn having been selected by Mrs Macfar-
| land. The words are so appropriate to the
| occasion that they are reproduced:
! Not low, but in the coming years.
1t may be in the better land,
Well read the meaning of our tears,
4 SD
Well catch the broken thread again.
And finish what here began
Heav'n will the mysteries explain,
And then, ah, then Wen understand.
Wen know why clouds instead OF sun
Were over many cherished plan;
Why song has ceased when scarce begun;
lis there some time. We'll understand.
Why wat we long for most of all
Eiudes so oft our eager hand;
Why hopes are crushed and castles fall,
Up here, some time, Well understand.
| God knows the way, He holds the key,
He guides with unerring hand.
Some time with fearless eyes we'n see:
Yes there. up there. Wen understand.
| CHORUS.
Then trust in God through all thy days;
Fear not, for He doth hold thy hand;
Though dark thy way, stil sing and praise;
Some time, some time. we'll understand
| In his opening words. the pastor, Rev.
M. Ross Fishburn. said:
When Edmund Burke died in 1897 Chan
Burke is dead" And now that our be-
loved Mckinley has passed through the
! swinging gate into the great beyond
grief-stricken America has but one
| thought: The President Is dead. 1t Is told
| Of Hercules that whether he stood or
walked or sat or whatever thing he did he
| conquered. And Of William Mckinley we
| may say that whether he be regarded as
| man, he occupies the imperial throne Of
manhood.
Assistant Secretary Campbell.
| Frank L. Campbell, assistant secretary
| Of the Interior. speaking OF William Nc
| Ktnley as private citizen, said:
Il have been asked to say q few words
| concerning the private life Of the great de-
ceased. This involves In a measure the
| family and the home life. some of the fea-
| lures Of which are too sacred for public
discussion. The family Is In sense q
holy secret society. l therefore reverently
honored and dear departed and bring to
| you something Of its beautiful inner life
From the private life of William Mckinley
nothing but good can be brought. for
nothing but good was there. It was my
| privilege to know Major Mckinley for
more than a third of a century. Born In
the same year. we started in life's active
work about the same time In Stark county,
Ohio. That county has since been my
legal residence, as 1t was his home to the
time OF his death. We met soon after our
going to that county. and our acquaintance
soon ripened into friendship which grew
and strengthened as the years went by
He as a young lawyer hung out his
shingle In Canton in 1887, and thus began
busy and strenuous life. the sad culmi-
| nation Of which Is the occasion OF our meet
ing here today. His integrity and broad In
teliigence soon brought him before the pub
lie eye and into public position. To make
his acquaintance was to become his friend.
To know him well was to love him for his
kindness OF heart and manliness OF char
acter. These were stamped upon his early
manhood as part Of the man. Whence
Were they inherent? Yes; but they were
fostered and developed by the beneficent
| influence Of a Christian home. The seed Of
early Christian teaching fell In good
ground and brought forth abundantly.
I'm 1852 his parents moved from Niles to
Poland, town in Mahoning county, In or
| der that he and his brother and sisters
| might have the educational advantages Of
an academy located there.
| He then went to Meadville College Penn
sylvania, but had to leave before finishing
his course on account of delicate health.
After rest he became a country school
teacher. While so engaged the war of the
rebellion broke out, and he, at the age Of
eighteen. enlisted in the Union army
After four-years service amid the temp
tations of army life Major Mckinley came
home, young man OF established Chris
tian character.
He then took up the study Of law, gradu-
ated at Yale and was admitted to the bar
in Ohio Today In the city of Canton
where be began his work. the clay taber-
nacle in which he did much Is being
gently and lovingly laid away, while a ma
ton mourns and SO.OOO,OOO Of his fellow
citizens shed their tears over his bier.
THE first formal public address which
know of his making was q temperance
speech to an immense crowd In q grove
| near the town where then lived. It made
a marked impression and Is yet talked
about by those who heard 1t. This at once
gave him a high place In the esteem Of his
fellow citizens In the county. and when
two years later he was put forward by his
party for the office OF prosecuting attorney
he was trinmphantly elected by a majority
of 800. although noromally the opposing
party carried the county by 100 to 800.
THUS began his public career, so much
of which is known wherever intelligence is
found. His congressional career began
March 4, 1877, and in just twenty years to
day he was 1naugurated President of the
United States Did he change in all those
years?
Yes and no. Yes, because he could not,
as public duties multiplied, give as much
time to friendly intercourse as he would:
and no, because every one of his old friends
Of whatever station In life had access to
him. and met cordial greeting. He never
f,t,