The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1901-09-11
REDWOOD PULPITS.
Ministers Touch Upon the Attempt to As
sassinate the President.

Ministers Touch Upon the Attempt TO As
saSsinate the President.
Atthe Church Of the Holy Com
munion Sunday morning special
prayers were offered in behalf Of
the President and Mrs. Mckinley.
National hymns were sung. The
pulpit was draped with large
American flag. Rev William Mitch
ell spoke with intense feeling and
noble eloquence Of the President
now lying at the point Of death,
stricken down by the wicked hand
of an assassin. Mr.. Mitchell's text
was Psalm 81 verse IS, The face
of the Lord is. against them that do
evil to root out the remembrance of
them from the earth. He alluded
to the gloom cast over the Nation
and the whole civilized world, the
National calamity caused by the as
sassination of one of the best and
noblest of men, the overwhelming
sorrow and sympathy of all citizens,
the intense wave Of moralindignation
that had swept over the country.
20 the strangeness Of it. the mys-
terry surrounding it, the awful, ter
rible, hideousness Of a crime like
that! To think that our beloved
President, one of the MODEST, brav-
est, gentlest and best of men, a man
who is the embodimento of the spirit
of freedom, whose life is the express
sion of all that is best in our Ameri-
can citizenship, whose whole aim
and purpose in life has been to do
his duty to his country and to God.
To think that William Mckinley,
our chief eXecutive who IS
every inch soldiershould be as
sassinated by such brute and
monster-this is terribly. ineXpres-
sibly shocking. He who did it is.
the embodiment Of the spirit of an
archy, the self-confessed enemy Of
the Republic, a fend and imp Of the.
devil. He stands for laWlessness.
.blasphemy, irreverence, defiance OF
law and order. He represents an
archy, the greatest danger which.
threatens our country.
His attack on the chief executive
is blow aimed at the flag, an as
sault on the Majesty of the Ameri-
can people, for this is a representa-
tive government, a free Republic,
and men like Lincoln, Garfield and
Mckinley are placed in power by
the will of the people. To assault
them is to assault the Republic it
self, to stab the dear old Stars and
Stripes. We may boast1of our free
dom, of our liberty, Of our asylum
and refuge for the oppressed o.. the
earth, but there is a point beyond
which freedom becomes license. We
have been too lax and loose IN re
spect to those whom we have vel
coined to our shores. We have let
down the bars and taken IN enemies
to law and order, anarchists who
hate the very flag which protects
them. They have become the open
sores aud awful wounds, the hide
Gus cancers and tumors on our body
polite which are eating out the very
vitals of our free institutions,
Against them, one and all, should
be turned the strong HAND Of the
law. They should be stamped on
and rooted out from the face of the
earth May God in His infinite love
and pity spare the life Of our be-
loved President for the service Of
his and our great country
+ Rev, E. a. Orr Our present sor-
ROW is directly due to the spirit OF
laWlessness. The man who assas-
lsinated our Preside Unjust be held
to account for his coWardly and das-
tardly deed. But there are men
whose god IS their belly who,
ssdespise domination and speaksevil
Of dignities, 8 who hate the church
Iof God and ,malign the ministry Of
Jesus Christ, who are back Of these
|coWardly go-betWeens. These men,
by ill-gotten gains, By corrupt pos
lltieal methods and By social clap