The Wilmington daily Republican., 1901-09-26
OUR MARTYRED
PRESIDENT

1 NANAO 0AN
| Thoughts on the death Of on
President. Text, Genesis 5:24
"And Enoch walked with God; ant
he was not tor God took him."
Two luminous thoughts sclntilla
ting with cheer and hope 10 man
and glory to Jehovah, blaze fortl
from these lines Of iuspir alton
The one the possibility and capa
billty, through the divine favor, o
NOR tai man, amidst abounding evil
being qualified 10 walk with hii
Maker. The other a more glorious
thought-one which finite mind can
never fathom, "God took bin. !"
While we ponder on these words1ol
inspiration. how our soul on wings
Of laith takes flight to lofty emine &C
where human reason grows glddy
aud human science falls from ita
towering peaks, but IN its native
sphere offaith, for far bove earth 8
nothingness, it views the evidences
OF Gods mercy, the llmitless ocean
of His grace and power. and in
ecstacy sublime. would sing afresh
"Nearer, Ny God, to Thee"
While the universal mind is
stunned aud bswildered, aud a
solemn awe like an eclipsins dark
ness. overshadows the people iu
conseq OF mysterious events
that have come to pass, it is we'll
for US all to stop and ponder on
these things and gather from them
whatever instruction there may be
10 them for us. Our text declares
that a man "walked with God"
three hundred years and the con.
else history Of the times 10 which
Enoch lived, as given BY the sacred
historian also settles the question
beyond all doubt that 10 these
three hundred years sin abounded
yet Enoch notwithstan ndlng the en-.
vironment Of abounding evil, walk
ed with his Maker, and st. Paul
adds this further testimony that
Enoch had this testimony "that he
pleased God.
1t is not our purpose in these
lines to enter into any tar-fetched
description Of how God took Enoch
the Bible is as silent as the grave
as to the mode OF operation aud
where the Biols stops we stop. But
1t saws God took him anA there we
stand solely and aione upou God .
declaration. Oh! that we wouI!
all AXE God al HIS word. The same
yesterday, today and .oreyer is our
Cod. lie biesses men to-day as he
blessed Enoch in the early years
Of our race, and be enables men 10
walk in harmony with his will to.
day. praise his name, and he takes
them today when ia his wise SOW
ereignty his glory is promoted. and
nations are led to othink on his name.
God moves in my sterious way and
TO bow with humble submission to
his will Is the noolcst thing his
creatures can do. The nation to.
day is robed in mourning, u strange
mysterious sense OF som:thing we
cannot define has taken hold on the
people and a gloomy sadness over
hangs our life, and the public pulse
beats with leverish and unnatur al
pulsation, aud wonder Is the ap-
partition that hangs before our
minds vision. What does it all
mean2 To lis it means that God is
speaking to a uation'th is drifting
away from Him. Let us listen in
tent to know what God 10 saying to
US. As our thoughts turn to the
one whose death has suggested
these lines-the ruler Of our nation,
it is not saying too much that Will
liam Mckinley through his life
walked with his Maker. while
fame aud dinstinction and honor
attended his life, and we believe
no man ever went the way OF all
flesh 80 honored aud 20 loved BY
his subjec cts, and this would be an
incentive, the command Of our
Christ "Seek Ye first the Kingdom
of God and his Righteousness. We
believe this W as the inspiring force
that made him the man he was.
Therefore we say, he too. like
Enoch, walked with God, And
while men Of noted piety and won.
drous ability have euloglzed his
lie, no man could say no more
than is embodied In these few con.
else sentences. "He walked with
God," aud God took him. What,
saws one. God took him, through
the dastardly act Of a hnman devil.
Yes we believe and say God took
him. And God would show me and
the reader as we'll by that occur. I
renee the awfulness Of sin, that
were it possible 1t would stab Je-
hoyah on his throne. aud did cru.
city his Son 10 the flesh. But even
10 sin Go has said "thus far thou
ah alt go but no farther" Reader.
listen, nothing can occur only by
Gods permission. God permitted !
this human demon to take from you |
and me our Cody Pre- sident, what
can we see or learn from it! "God L
took him." for he walked with
him." Sin could 60 no farther. ,
God took him. Sin delivered him
up to death at the hands Of its in.
strument. But listen to the dying
testimony Of Gods saint, ut 10
Gods way. His will be done. 1t II
is Gods way" Oh. what signi6- il
cance is there in these d wing words
oi William Mckinley. at is Gods 1,
way" Gods way to show you and a
ne the awfulness OF sin. Sin slew |"
one Of the first children Of the race
and all along the line OF history r.
rom Adam to Mckinley. sin has
been murderer. Lust when it 4
lath conceived bringeth forth Sin, :.