Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-09-19
THE GRAFTON BY
BISHOP ANDREWS.
Tribute to the Martyred President at the Services
In Washington.

| In God and in Jesus Christ, through
whom God was revealed. He accepted
! the divine law of the Scriptures; he
based his hope on Jesus Christ, the
! appointed and only Redeemer of men;
and the church, beginning It's opera
tion upon his character at an early
period of his life, continued even to
its close to mold him. He waited
attentively upon its mlnistrations.
He gladly partook with his brethren
! of the sympols of mysterious passion
and redeeming love Of the Lord Jesus
| Christ. He was helpful in all of those
beneficenses and activities, and from
the church to the close of his life he
received inspiration that lifted him
above much of the trouble and weak
ness incident to our human nature,
and, blessings be to God, may we say.
in the last and final hour they enabled
him confidently, tenderly, to say: 1T
is His will, not ours, that will be
done"
Such influences gave to us William
Mckinley. And what was he? A man
of incorruptible personal and political
integrity. suppose no one ever at
tempted to approach him in the way
of a bribe, and we remember with
great felicitation at this time for such
an example to ourselves, that when
great financial difficulties and perils
I encompassed him he determined to
deliver all he possessed to his cred
itors; that there should be no chal-
lenge of his perfect honesty in the mat
ter. A man of immaculate purity,
shall we say? No stain was upon
his escutcheon; no syllable of suspi-
cion that l ever heard was whispered
against his character. He walked
in perfect and noble self-control.
BEYOND that this man had somehow
wrought in him-I suppose upon the
I foundations of a very happily con-
strncted nature-1a grent7 and gener.
GUS love for his fellowmen. He be-
lieved in men. He mad himself been
| brought UP among the common peo.
pie. He knew their labors, struggles,
necessities. He loved them; but /
think beyond that it was to thechurch
and its teachings concerning the faith
erhood of God and universal brother
hood of man that he was indebted
for that habit of kindness, for that
generosity of spirit, that was wrought
into his very substance and became
him so that though he was of all men
most courteous, no one ever supposed
but that courteousness was from the
heart. 1t was spontaneous, unaffect-
ed, kindly, attractive, in most EN-
inent degree. What he was in the
narrower circle of those to whom he
was personally attached think he was
also In the greatness of his
comprehensive love toward the
race of which he was
part. If any man had been lifted UP
to take into his purvew and desire
to help all classes and conditions of
men, all nationalities beside his own.
1t was this man. Shall | speak word
next Of that which l will hardly ad-
vert toto the tenderness of that do
nestle love which has so often been
commented upon? pass it with only
that word / take it that no words can
set forth fully the unfaltering kind
ness and carefulness and upbearing
love which belonged to this great man.
And he was man who believed
in right, who had a profound convic-
tion that these courses of this world
must be ordered in accordance with
OF luis
worlds highest point of good will
never be reached; that no nation can
expect success in life except as it
conforms to the eternal loss OF the
Infinite Lord and pass itself in indi-
vidual and collective activity accord
ing to that divine will. 1t was deep
iy ingrained in him that righteousness
was the perfection of any man and
of any people. Simplicity belonged
to him. I need not dwell upon it, and
close the statement of these qualities
by saying that underlying all and
over reaching all and penetrating all
there was profound loyalty to guard
the great king of the universe, the