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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-16

Rev. j. d. Stanley, rector of Christ
Church, had he not been called out of the
city, would have commented upon the death
of the President in part as follows from his
pulpit yesterday:
Deep grief pervades the heart of the
Nation as men whisper, one to another in
personal sorrow, Our President is dead
another name is added to the roll, already
too long, of our martyred rulers. Shame
and humiliation are mingled with our in
dignation and a sense of awe prevails at
the insecurity which attaches to the lot of
those in exalted places. But il is time
for sadness, not for bitter thoughts.
Great crises and trying moments dis
cover a man to himself and reveal him to
others. 1t was at crucial times that Mr.. Nc
Kinley evinced the courage which knew no
f1inching and that steady equipoise which
only the true and the brave can show.
II would pay my tribute to him as a man.
for the most sterling characteristics of
American manhood were his in overlooking
measure. He was a man OF religious in
purity; a man TO whom conscience was a
monitor; man of gnanimity and great
heartedness. Side by side with brilliancy
the most marked. ability the most eminent,
and patriotism the most exalted, dweit
those gentler virtues, which make beautiful
domestic and personal relationships. Cour-
teous and considerable to the least as to the
greatest, he was in a laudable sense a
man of the people.
Though shafts of stone may be erected
to perpetuate his memory, and his achieve
incribed thereon, the monument which must
prove most enduring are the beneficient
qualities of head and heart which demon
strated his real greatness.
Men may go, but the government lives:
and so long as this government shall sur
vive. Will the name and fame OF William
Mckinley live and be revered, affording in
spiration for the present, and for the
generations to come"
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And, like you, know that this ignorant as
sassin has struck down one OF the noblest
resentatives, of this great liberty-loving.
peace-loving, aspiring Nation. William Nc
kiniey the devout. Thoroughly trained
Christian President and American gentle
man, has been stricken by man as worth
less to the world were the coarse SOL
dlers who nailed Jesus 10 the cross. AND
William Mckinley, true disciple or his Mas
ter that he was, with an expression OF
contempt such Jesus showed for Ananias
and for PLATE, still thought first OF the
welfare OF his nearest companion, and then
for the protection of his brutal assailant-
Let us, as in the presence or our great
dead President; as In the presence OF our
Redeemer. while realizing and contemning
the enormity of the crime which has been
committed against true man and great
nation still say from our heart OF hearts,
what they do.
Our hearts are too sore. our emotions
are running too high to-day. either to de-
sued with the criminal or TO properly esti-
mate the loss which the Nation has sus-
tained. Both these judgments must be left
TO Quieter hours. But this characteristic OF
unselfshness in the President and of digni-
fed respect for orderly treatment of his
slayer when himself slain in defiance OF all
law is something which our agitated hearts
should fondly cherish and lovingly emulate
in this our hour of distress For he has
manifested the pre-eminent power of the
Master over the life OF a disciple. 1t was
charity that caused his first thoughts to be
for his most devoted and tender companion:
that caused his second expression to be in
behalf of his wild assaiant, Let no one
hurt him." and the third, an expression Of
sorrow at having been the cause of trouble
TO the great exposition, whose guest he
was: so that in the shock and danger of i'm
pending death his anxiety was all for
the sorrows and rights of others. Such
charity as this has been learned only by
those who have lived at the foot of the
cross; whose character has been built up by
unceasing regard for the welfare Of 9TH
ers: whose energies had been given with
strength seldom paralleled to the fulfillment
of the high duties which ability and the
voice of the people had laid upon him.
Having. lived such life. the President
was not thrown OF his guard even by the
presence Of the pains of death. but these
great Christian expressions of benevo-
lence were most natural utterances. Would
that we all had learned the lesson of the
cross as he had learned IL. that we all were
living the unselfsh life that he lived. that
his own pastor had partaken as fully OF the
spirit of the Master as had his distin-
guished parishioner. With such citizens
only is nation safe. With such spirit
only can anarchy be met and conquered.
With such Christians only can the kingdom
of heaven be established.
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AT THIRD CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
Rev. Carlos c. Rowlfson Discusses thu
Killing of the President.

Rec. Carlos C. Rowison, pastor of the
Third Christian Church. commented on the
death of the President at the hands of
the Anarchist in his sermon last night He
said in part:
I'VE are resting to-day under the shadow
wide calamity. AS We assemble In our
houses of worship. where all is done in the
name OF our Lord Jesus Christ. let US seek
presence or such groundless violence, in
the face Of such appalling disaster:
While the cruel nails pierced His hands
and feet, and the violence of His own
weight upon them the cross was erected.
caused the most exquisite pain. He quietly
exclaimed: Father, forgive them; for they
know not what they do This was our
Masters spirit. And in the sickness and
pain OF this our national tragedy, let us
hold our hearts close to His until they
throb with the impulse which was
everywhere dominant in Him. To forgive
these Ignorant plotters against our ma
resentative of our institutions, is the first
essential, both for our own salvation and
for their redemption. That vengeful spirit
which it hard for US TO choke back to-
day. is the awakening of the brute, the
tiger, the savage, which usually lies dor
mant within us, but which on occa sions
IKE this Is apt to dethrone our cultivated
reason and Christianity. Woe to that
man and that nation in whom this violent
passion reigns. Disciples of Jesus Christ,
let us crowd close TO the foot of the cross
the Christ again controls US; for only so
shall we be fitted TO meet life's calamities
as men.
Il would not seem to mitigate the
enormity of the crime which has been per-
petrated. l fully conscious OF its dread
ful significance. l am aware, in the first
place, that IL was committed by one OF
number OF beings who, while enjoying full
freedom to pursue their own way and the
protection In their right by mighty ma
ton. are at the same time openly and sec
reilly plotting the destruction OF the Nation
and its representatives. | am aware that
language has not been formulated sufn-
GENTLY expressive 10 describe the dastardly
baseness of such an attitude. | am well
Informed that IL has been the pride and the
JOY OF America 10 open her arms OF well
come to all the oppressed. even TO all the
debased sediment of the older civilizations:
giving them her lands. her institutions,
her citizenship; promising them unques-
toned right 20 live their own lives so long
they do not interfere with the same right
in others. and that one such welcomed and
such protected man has sought. in
the wildness OF his hate,
to destroy this very cherishing mother.
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self provides measures by which the Gull
prit may beat the law, the many chances
OF escaping detection, of compromising with
omcers OF justice, OF securing acquittal by
pardon-all these embolden evil men. IL Is
not severity Of punishment so much as ce-
lerity and certainty OF punishment that will
deter men from crime.
Last and chiefly the spread OF evil
doctrines IL is which prepares the way for
crimes Say what you will. the beliefs Of
men are at the root OF conduct. The human
mind must believe something IL was
meant 10 believe in God, in immortality in
accountability. in day OF Judgment Take
away these wholesome doctrines and the
mind lies open to vagaries and to vanities
For twenty years public morals have been
made 10 stand alone. We had ethics with
out doctrine. We had preaching bereaved
of sin and atonement. And as an empty
meal sack Will not stand up. neither will
morality unless IL Is filled with the sub
God. This generation, having had its doc
trinal rations cut off. lies open to every
foul contagion. The mind must have some
thing. If you deny ii the sublime truths
will take up with spiritualism and clair
voyance, with palmistry and Christian
science, with socialism and free love. The
doctrine OF Proudhon that property Is theft
the doctrine of Bakunin. the Russian Mill
list. any doctrine. however subversive of
the state, however destructive of human
life, will enter like vile weeds so soon as
the ground is left vacant of the good seed
of the kingdom of God. We have forSaken
Gods word, we have neglected His church:
and yet, forsooth, We are Mortified when the
natural consequences of such neglect begin
to show themselves. 1t is high time to
return TO the fountains OF that kind OF re-
ligion that George Washington had in mind
when he declared that education, morality
and religion are at the bottom OF all ma
tional honor and all national life"
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CENTRAL UNIVERsALIsT.
A Memorial Service Conducted by the
Rev. Marion CrosIey.

Memorial services were held yesterday
morning in the Central Universalist Church.
The church was draped in black bunting,
and there were palms and flowers. The
Rev. Marion Crosley, pastor, in speaking
of the death of President Mckinley, said in
part: 1.-The lives Of nations must be judged
by the virtues of the people. In the an
which were fighting to conquer the world
fell and have passed away from earth
through the evils of their peoples. If an
archy succeeds law and order in our coun-
try our Nation will end. II the Nation lives
and those in authority hold office in safety
Anarchists and anarchy must be subju-
gated. Those in office must be respected
when chosen by free people.
"A vile serpent OF man has plunged our
Republic into an ocean of sorrow. He has
thrown a mighty nation into commissions
Of grief in the midst of peace, plenty and
prosperity. All was going we'll Content
ment and Joy seemed to fill the air. The
great ship of state was blowing a calm and
peaceful sea. The watchmen al the towers
of the Republic were shouting All is we'll.
We are a great and mighty Nation. power
in the midst of rejoicing. In the midst OF
all these celebrations and at an unexpected
moment our brave, competent true leader,
twice chosen 80 fill the highest office in the
gift of the people, was stricken down TO
the earth, stung to death by serpent.
The assassins bullet penetrated the very
heart of the Nation and produced gaping
wound.
THE memory of President Mckinley will
never fade. The high examples he has set
will always be used for the advancement
of this country"
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or adulation-adulation, feel would not be
fair to Mr. Mckinley. When l say that I
give him the highest praise He was a
good man he was not a Napoleon. but like
Sir Walter Scott willing TO toll while he
went on. l am reminded OF one who. from
this very pulpit, told how. when a soldier
In the civil war. he had visited Washington.
Being again on the tramp with his gun
over his shoulder, he wondered where the
government was. He had been TO Wash
ington He had seen the President the
Cabinet officers and the White House But
he had not seen the government Where
was IL. Finally IL came over him that he
was the government. What profit Is IL for
us to be here this afternoon? To mediate
upon the death OF the man who has been
our President so recently assassinated?
OF what use are great men TO US? People
of all politics mourn our President. and
to-day all party lines are obliterated. III
can for a few days drive away bitter
strife is IL profitable to us? Mr.. McKin-
ley's private life in all it's simplicity. The
home life must be the solution OF all
political and educational life. of our moral
and religious lie. He was the exemplar OF
a beautiful and simple home life. We are
taught the sacredness of human life para
doxical as this may SEEM, by the words
of the President al the very moment OF his
assassinat ton. Taught respect for law and
authority, and this We must preserve. For
when this is gone, II ever IL does go. all
is gone"
The closing prayer was offered by the
Rev. r. Scott Hyde.
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MAYFLOwER CONGREGATIONAL.


Before the address Of the morning was
delivered by Major Blanche Cox, of the
Salvation Army at the Mayfower Congre-
gational Church yesterday Rev Mr.. Osgood
occupied a few moments in making allusion
to the death of President Mckinley. He
said in part:
In just a word l want to voice the grief
which the whole Nation feels at the death
of William Mckinney. SO lately the honored
voice also the solemn horror which chills
hearts we contemplate the daStardly
crime which resulted in the great and dis
tressing national calamity; as we see more
clearly with the advancing days the full
import Of this cold blooded and inhuman
deed.
a growing admiration and a growing love
for William Mckinley. 1t has been in
ereasingly clear even to these who have
his policies-and this fact explains why
the American people were more eager to
that he always exercised his best Judgment
whether in discharging routine duty or
meeting emergencies, that he always fol-
ways set before himself high ideal and
that his most intimate and cherished COM
panion was a clean conscience.
His temperament made him the peoples
friend and they loved him. And because
they loved him for his sweet amiability, his
kindly approachableness. his winning and
sincere manner, the sorrow Is the sorer
which they feel at his loss. Words flow
with ease when we come to speak of such
a man as this We esteem him, we revere
him, we love him for his consecrated pub
lie service, for his sweet domestic devo-
tion-and above all for that without which
these characteristics never could have been
"a clean, honest, God-fearing, man-loving
soul. What an inspiration 10 you and me
to do our duty! What an inspiration to us
so to live that, should in the mysterious
course of Providence ever be brought into
he Oh notice.
too should be mighty incentive to our
fellows to trust God and believe In man.
MAY the grief-smitten wife be upheld
by a Nations sympathy and by divine COM
fort May the successor to high office be
upheld by the peoples devotion and con-
fidence May the shocked and sorrow-laden
Nation rise to the occasion and breathe
deep Of the martyred Presidents strong,
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let him be a traitor doomed to a traitors

let him be traitor doomed to a traitors
fate.
The spirit Of mob violence that has been
manifested toward the assassin and An
archist in general is TO be deplored. To
meet anarchy by anarchy is to rush madly
to an end that is worse than the beginning.
But IL IL please God. in a better and wiser
way than mob violence, may the storm OF
wrathful indignation that has been aroused
not spend its fury until IL has swept the
last vestige OF anarchy from American
shores. William Mckinley, wherever we
view him in his splendid career, impresses
us with his personal greatness. He was
great In his home. His tender. enduring
devotion to his invalid wife gave 10 the
world an object lesson more beautiful than
any dream of love and fidelity in the realm
OF fiction. He was great in legislative halls,
rising there to world renown. He was great
as President. He was never greater than
in the last few days of his life. In the
Temple Of Music as he sank back mortally
wounded. seeing his assailant in the hands
OF enraged men, he said, Deal fairly with
him, thus showing spirit so like that
great Man who said. Father. forgive them,
for they know not what they do
His deep solicitude for his wife in those
last days and the last tender parting was
a fitting close to the life they had lived so
happily together. His last words. Good
bye TO all: il is Gods way; His will be done
showed him TO be man of God dying with
the Christians hope. And when he sank
into Inconsistencies. murmuring Nearer.
my God. to Thee nearer to Thee he closed
life. career that will forever adorn Amer
lean history"
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CRIME AND ITS REMEDY.
Sermon by Rev. r. o. Ballard mt Me-
mortal Presbyterian Church.

At Memorial Presbyterian Church yes
terday morning the pastor, Rev. Frank o.
Ballard, preached on Crime and Its
Remedy" He said in part:
When crime breaks loose in commun-
ity there is a tendency to regard the revul-
sion and horror of the public mind as in
some sense presenting opposition to crime.
Yet as soon as the first horror has passed
people settle down into the same moral in
difference and follow in the same pursuit
shocked. but not made better. Blind and
indiscriminate moral revulsion. then, while
it is instructive does not carry with 1t the
remedial force which must work the
change for which society waits.
Nor Is the duty Of a community done
when crime is punished. If all those causes
which produced crime are left in opera
ton II will be found that punishment in
the future as in the past will be an INSULT
cient deterrent. There is an obligation so
to remove the causes occasioning crime
so TO arrange laws, 10 conduct civil
procedure as IN the least degree to admit
of outbreak. That crimes against society
quency in this land there can remain no
doubt What are the reasons?
I'VE mention first the increasing density
of population brought about by natural
growth. by abnormal congestion In cities
and by the access OF large and undesir-
able foreign immigration-the immigra-
civilizations. Against indiscriminats in
fiux of bad elements a remedy must be pro-
vided.
tives to violence. particularly the unwhole-
some congestion OF wealth. II may not be
said that one cannot acquire millions with
the easy acquisition of vast sums by In
dividuals implies radical defects In the
laws OF distribution under which our in
dustrial life is proceeding.
Another bad sign Is the prevailing senti-
ment OF impunity among the criminal class.
Those long processes By which the law IT
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FATHER GAvIsK's TRIBUTE.


At st. Johns Church yesterday morning
the rector, Rev. Francis II. Gavisk, de-
voted his sermon at each of the masses
to the death of Mr.. Mckinley, denouncing
anarchy the height of human pride and
warning against violation Of the laws Of
our country as the seed OF anarchy. He
said II was unusual to discuss current
events In the pulpits Of Catholic churches.
but the worldwide Importance Of the as
sassination of the President made Ii neces-
sary that all Americans should testify their
grief al their country's loss, and that they
should express their utter detestation of
the more than crime that had robbed the
Republic Of its chief magistrate and
plunged Its citizens in a common sorrow.
This is time not only of sorrow but of
national humiliation. That in this land
where the choice OF our rulers is left to
ourselves. where the term of an admins
tration is but short four years. we have
20 remember that thrice within thirty-six
years the chief magistrate has fallen by an
assassin's hand is an intense humiliation.
Oh all rulers among men one would suppose
that the President Of the United States
most easily approached OF all rulers, was
the safest from attack, yet only twenty
years ago this month the country was in a
similar affiiction. and sixteen years before
the Nation mourned the asSassin's victim
Father Gavisk reviewed the circum-
stances OF the attacks upon Lincoln and
Garfield; that of Lincoln followed so close
ly upon a succession of national calamities
II was like the closing scene of a horrible
tragedy; the motive here was a political
issue OF the time; the assassination OF Gar
field was the qualification OF the personal
malice of disappointed ofice-seeker. The
absence OF motive for the crime at Buffalo
other than the insensate hatred OF law and
government makes that deed the more
horrible and arouses the greater indigna-
ton. IL a blow at the Nation in the
person OF its chief magistrate. a blow at
each one of citizens of the Nation
The manner OF IL intensified the crime
The President had gone to Buffalo on a
friendly mission to do honor to the ex-
position Of Americas advancement: he had
made a notable speech in which he had the
entire civilized world as audience the
dominant tone of which was peace and
good will TO the world. The next day he
was receiving that simple act OF homage
which the American people delight 10 paw
20 their President the friendly grasp OF the
hand. and while doing this was traitorously
shot down by hand extended in the
guise OF friendship. II was "a deed with
out name.
Father Gavisk then passed 10 a eulogium
OF the dead President. His life illustrated
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SEVENTH PRESBYTERIAN.


In connection with his sermon yesterday
the Rev. r. V. Hunter, of the Seventh
Presbyterian Church, said in substance:
1.-The worst has happened and President
Mckinley is dead. Our grief is more bitter
since he has fallen without provocation at
the hands of an assassin. Our people are
loyal to their government and officials.
There are comparatively few who are pos
sessed of the spirit of cruelty and malevo-
lence exhibited by this monster who is in
prison at Buffalo. God forgive him, for
mankind will scarcely be able to do so.
I'VE mourn a Nation to-day for a be-
loved and kindly man, a devoted husband,
good neighbor, Christian, a nobleman;
yea, more, mourn over a fallen states
man and patriot; we mourn for our be-
loved President. The late President Nc
dd 9ey into mas the srown IN f f6
people more and more as the years have
gone by, and ne has been appreciated by
the nations of the earth as no other Amer
lean President has ever been. He will be
remembered among the great Presidents
of our Republic. He was born. for just
such time as We have recently passed
through.
But are to be subjected to this sort
of treatment by ingrates and irresponsible
lunatics time after time? Is there to be no
way of restraining Anarchists and assas-
sins? Congress will be criminally derelict
unless ii pass laws which will adequately
deal with all who hold to anarchistic prin-
ciples and desire or propose to murder the
representatives of our government. Such
assassins have no more moral right to free
dom than a dog with rabies would have
to run up and down our streets and high
ways unmolested.
THE nations of the earth should Join
in united action against these enemies of
order government and mankind. They are
relics of a barbarism wholly out of place
in modern civilization, but the government
still lives 1t is the province of govern
ment to make conditions which will place
a proper value upon human life, encour-
age patriotism, and make it easier for it's
citizens to do right. We have gone to the
extreme of liberty-liberty has degenerated
too often into license. Liberty must con-
tinue a cornerstone of our Republic but
the reins must be frightened.
Let us pray to the God Of nations to
deliver us from another such calamity, and
to make all of our people lava biding, in
telligent and loyal. We rejoice to-day,
while We sorrow for the beloved McKin-
ley, that President Roosevelt has been Sc
lected to take his place. The new Presi-
dent has risen to every responsibility that
mas been placed upon him. The govern
ment will be safe in his hands. May the
people and the Lord protect him, and may
he be guided in the duties of the great of
flee which he now occupies by that God
whose wisdom alone is perfect