Semi-weekly Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1897-1901, 1901-09-17


Services in keeping with the national Attic
ton were held in the Uniyersalist Church,
| sunday morning. Mr. Frank Brasor sang, II
Cannot Always Trace the Way and Mrs
| Harriet Brasor Pratt sang, Just for To-
day" and 1.-The Lord is Mindful of His own
| from the oratorio OF est Paul"
Mr. Marvin selected for the text of the SER
mon, Hebrews, It'll chapter and 2Ith verse,
HE endured as seeing Him who is invisible"
Among other things he said There Is no
sight in Gods universe so imposing as the
sight of good man. There is no gift of God
to the world SO great as the gift of a good man.
There is no human loss 20 unspeakable
a. the loss OF Il good man. President
McKinley's public career from the out.
set seems to have been marked by high
purpose and by clear insight. He has made
fewer mistakes than most men make who
enter the maze of political life. 1t has always
seemed to me to be an injustice that the Pres.
ideM should have been referred to so often as
"a man of destiny rs the Napoleon of
modern political life before whose mere
name all obstacles at once bowed down to
permit him to walk in easy triumph TO the
seats OF the mighty. Such view of the man
is an injustice Tor two reasons. 1t has a ten.
dency to deprive Mr. Mckinley OF the results
which were earned by the hardest and most
persistent daily work. 1t also has a tendency
to encourage the youth of our land to believe
tDul III sblIlt sitl OuN way lnt Ntli- iiust
be proptious to enable human being to
achieve the heights, binding them 10 the
fact that 1t is hard work which counts in the
battle Of life rather than good luck or favor.
able horoscopes. Undoubtedly President
Mckinley was a gifted man but he was also
blessed with the genius tor hard work and in
estimating his life that fact must not be over
looked. II the latter attanments in his career
were beyond those reached by the majority
OF men, il was because he buiIded wisely and
well in his youth rs for the early wears OF
his lite, they were not extraordinary except
for his capacity for patient toll. 1t was
no "star of destiny" but hard work that
made the man what he was.
! II the life OF President Mckinley ,can teach
the men of America anything, ii is that the
man of destiny is simply the man OF true
worth. that the man of fortune is simply the
man of hard work. that the man OF character
is simply the man of Cod
Rev. FIR. Cunningham's Tribute.
At the Roman Catholic church Rev Father
Cunningham announced the death of Presi-
dent Mckinley and spoke words of sym.
patty In behalf of the Presidents family and
the " hole nation. He believed it wrong to
be too hasty in placing the primary blame
for the deed as It is not yet definitely known
whether ii was due to anarchists. Father
Cunningham spoke of the assassination Of
President Lincoln rs the act Of an individual
and President Garield's death as due TO strong
political feelings. In closing Father Cum
ningham said that whether or not Mckinley's
death may have been due directly to an
archism, this country has no room for such
societies in its borders and should take :meas-
ures TO destroy them.
The Unitarian Service.
The service at the Unitarian church was
conducted in absence of Rev f q Osgood
bv A w Birks OF Bernardston, divinity
student and son of Rev Mr Brks. In its es.
,ential part the sermon was tribute TO Pres
ident Mckinley with the words OF Paul. "Not
seeking thine own profit bpt the profit of the
many" for ateXt. The speaker began with
the quotation of the incident on the battle
field of Antietam related by Secretary Root
at the dedication OF monument at Antit-
tam. when Il commissary sergeant OF an ONO
regiment a boy OF only Is, of his own ac-
cord. without orders from his superors,
loaded his wagon with food for the faintng
troops at the front and drove through a
shower Of shot and shell to their relief On
that battlefield Rutherford Il Hayes. 10Th
president of the United States, recommended
" iliam Mckinley, oath President OF the
United States, for a commission.
Mr. Blrks then spoke OF Mr. Mckinley ~
private citizen, 4 lawyer, a representative In
Congress. governor of his state. President of
his country twice elected. and all these years
a faithful and devoted husband. In conclu-
sion. after deprecating the lamentabe fact
that the red hand OF anarchy should have
struck down a man 80 beloved, he quoted
with admirable efec. Walt whitman, poem,
so Captain, My Captain
AT the Methodist Church.
Rev Il f Lowe alluded to the death of the
nrpSi,lent nj the hclrinuing Of MS sermon.