The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-09-20

We seemed to hear the family mutteret
words: 'Good-by, all; good-by. It's Gods
way His will be done And then Near
er, My God, to Thee So. nesting nearel
to his God, he passed out Into unconscious
ness, skirted the dark shores Of the ses
of death for a time and then passed on Il
be at rest. His great heart had ceased
to beat. Our hearts are heayy with sof'
row. n. 81.
A voice is heard on earth Of tinsfolk weeping
The loss OF one they love:
But he has gone where the redeemed are lcseping
A festival above.
The mourners thronr the ways and from ths
Tho funeral bells toll slow:
But on the golden streets the holy peopie
Are passing TO and fro.
And saying as they meet. "Rejoice. another,
Long waited for, Is come
The savior's heart IL glad. younger brother
Has reached the fathers home"
PRESIDENTS CHARACTER
COMMANDED ADMIRATION.
The cause Of this universal mourning IS
to be found in the man himself. The in
spired penman's picture OF Jonathan. liken-
ing him to the beauty OF Israel could not
be more appropriately employed than in
chanting the lament Of our fallen chieftain.
II does no violence to human speech nor 10
1t fulsome eulogy to thus speak OF him, for
who that has seen his stately bearing. his
grace and manliness Of demeanor. his kind
liness Of espect, but gives assent to this
description OF him?
TT was characteristic Of our beloved
President that men met him only to love
him. They might indeed differ from him,
but In the presence OF such dignity OF char
acter and grace Of manner. mono could fail
to love the man. Tho people confded In
him. believed in him. It was said Of Lin
xtae nho he
of Washington. was ever 30 deeply i'm
bedded and enshrined in the hearts Of the
people. but 1t is true of Mckinley in
larger sense. Industrial and social condi-
tions are such that he was, even more than
hts predecessors, the friend of the whole
people.
IA touching scene was enacted in this
church last Sunday night. The services had
closed. The worshipers were gone to their
homes. Only few fingered to discuss the
sad event that brings Us together to-day.
Three men in working garb OF foreign
race and unfamiliar tongue entered tho
room. They approached the altar, kneeling
before It. and before his picture. Their lips
moved as If in prayer. while tears furrowed
their cheeks. They may have been thinking
Of their own King Humhbert and Of his ur-
timely death. Their emotion was eloquent,
eloquent beyond speech. and 1t bore festi-
mony to their appreciation Of manly friend
.aaR ..Hs avs WAS g SINCERE. 1ESc ' ~
PLAIN AND HONEST"
ut Is q glorious thing to be able to say
in this presence, with our illustrious dead
before us, that he never betrayed the conf
dence OF his countrymen. Not for personal
gain or pre-eminence would he mar the
beauty Of his soul. He kept it clean and
white before God and man. and his hands
were unsulIied by b1bes. His eyes looked
right on, and his eyelids looked straight be-
fore him. He was sincere. plain and honest,
just. benevolent and kind. He never disap-
pointed those who believed in him, but
measured I'D to every duty and met every
in life grandly and unninch-
lngly.
"Not only was our President brave. heroic
and honest; he was as gallant knight as
ever rode the lists for his lady love in the
lays when knighthood was in flower. 1t is
but few weeks since the nation looked on
With tear-dimmed eyes, a. 1t saw with what
tender conjugal devotion ho eat at the bed i
side OF his beloved wife when all feared
that fatal illness was upon her. No pub
ic clamor that he might show himself to
the populace, no demand OF social func- 4
lion was suhlcient to draw the lover from
he bedside of his wife. He watched and
waited while We all prayed-and she lived.
This sweet and tender story all the world
Knows. and the world knows that his whole
NE had run in this one groove Of love. It
vas a strong arm that she leaned upon and
{ never failed her. Her smile was more to
,irn than the plaudits Of the multitude and
for her greeting his acknowledgements OF
hem must walt. After receiving the fatal
wound his first thought was that the ter
rible news might be broken gently to her.
May God in this deep hour Of SORROW COM
Tort her. May his grace be greater than
her anguish. May the Widows God be her
God.
Another beauty In tho character Of our
President that was Q chaplet Of grace
tian. In the broadest. nohlest sense Of the
word, that WIS true. His confidence In
God was strong ard unwaveftnE II held
him steady in many . storm where othefs
were dstven before The wind ara tossed. :
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