The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1901-09-20
with all the execration of our soul, this
fsa,.l ;,,s, ,

foul assassination.
In reference to the death of Presi-
dent Mckinley, Rev. D. r. Tomliu, of
the Congregational church spoke in
part as follows of the bereavement as a
preface to his sermon:
when the awful news reached New
York City thst Abraham Liucoln, the
first of that illustrious trinity of mar
tyred presidents, had been laid low in
death by the assassin's bullet, and the
nation stood with bedewed ewes and
pallid cheeks. while mems hearts sank
into the depths of despair as a tempest
driven ship sinks in the thought of the
surging sea, have read that James A,
Garfield, little dreaming taat he was in
the line Of succession, endoavored to
allay the apprehension of number OF
his fellow countrymen with these words:
"'The Lord reigneth: clouds and
darkness may be round about him, but
righteousness and judgment are the
habitation of his THRONE and the gov.
ernment at Washington still livea.''
$50 while our hearts bleeding yer
the fatal termination of That appalliug
tragedy enacted at Buffalo on the 9th
by red handed anarchy, and our cher
ished hopes lie in fragments at our feet,
hurled from pinnacle of miscalculation
and we mourn the loss of our beloved
President, ruthlessly stricken down at
the meridian OF his splendor by the con-
cealed hand OF a lawless villain, we need
to remember that 1.-THE Lord reieneth, >
and the government at Washington
still lives"
ut is not my purpose, however, to
dwell upon the details of the appalling
calamity which has befallen us as 8
nation, nor TO review that splendid
career which has been so suddenly ter
minated in our midet; as | understand
| arrangements are to be made to do this
| in more public manner, which will be
far more appropriate to The occasion. I"
The discourse of DIR. Williams, who
| occupied the pulpit in the PRESBYTERIAN
church Sunday morning, while result
ing from the great crime and deep sor-
| row tnat afilicts the nation was not at
all memorial of the great aud beloved
man, but rather lesson of wafning
| from the fact that such q crime was
| possible in such and age and under the
freest OF government For of a personal
enmity the assassin had not one thought.
Not at the man but at the office was the
hand lifted. Nor was the man destitute
of humane impulses. It's the alarming
story Of perverted minds widespread
and fast developing in many lands.
Laws cannot reach mems thinking and
yet out of this pessimistic brooding
| comes the whole brood of assassins.
| Where then is our protection and sal
| vation? There is a law that can do the
work. "Ye shall keep my Sabbath and
reverence my sanctuary" Leviticus
| 1890. Does that sound feeble, thin and
of no promise? Strange that men fail
to understand the potency OF moral for.
ces. What but an emotional state a
perverted moral force drove the assas-
sin to his crime? The corrective must
be moral force, "for as q man thinketh
in his heart so is he" Now if we are to
live as nation of free men that law of
God must be obeyed. We knov how
our tree of liberty was planted and we
know the spirit and life OF the Puritan
founders OF this unique republic To
the pilgrims of Plymouth, to the Huge-
nots of the Carolinas, the Puritan
Dutchman of The Hudson, the problem
OF life was simple. The church for q
moral force, the school house for a mon
tai force, and the industrial hand for the
secular force will make we'll rounded
out men, safe and self, governing.
Al this point the speaker opened a
series of striking facts. One drawn
from the reign of terror in France in
1893 when the national assembly de
throned God by decree and abolished
the Sabbath. The result was logical.
No Cod no soul in man, life only ami
NAL aud cheap, then mad carnival OF
| blood. Another fact of similar i'm oort
appears in the cheapened sense of life
among cannibal savages. A dim sense
OF hereafter, uimmer yet of any God, nc
| Sabbath teaching, no moral force 10
guide the lite. On the other hand an
impressive series of facts were shown OF
the great peoples OF old. Tn ir calen-
dars, governments and laws all built on
religion, their Sabbaths, temples and
rituals and penitential psalms now
known to have been the source of the
moral forces that made them stable and
great. Later came apostasy, skepticisn
and it's logical sequel-decay and ruin
From this series of facts the speake,
took up the problem from the stand
point Of reason.
1t is a significant fact that anarchists
are atheists, taking the most gloomies1
view OF life and the state of the world