The sun., 1901-09-20
lead CHIEFS BODY
RESTING IN PEACE
CONTINUED from First Pagc.)


1lfne things we hope for In our nations future |
may he realized! And until we have discovered |
the evil and rooted 1t out let not thy goodness |
depart from us.
In affecting, Lord, be merciful. Rcmembe,
not our SINS against us and visit us in the pleni
tude of thy grace.
youchsafe, we pray thee, the funess Of thy
grace to thy servant who has unexpectedly
besn inducted into the solemn responsibilities Of
the office Of chief magistrate. May he be en-
dowed with all needed gifts to administer thu
eovernment to thy glory and the welfare of tht
Great people. Give him thy protection from Sc
cfet foes and unworthy friends. Fill us heart
~un tiny fear and give him the confidence ano
love Of the nation.
And now, o Lord, trustfully do we commit to
thy infinitely tender and gracious care her who
has been most bitterly bereaved Tender as are
Our hearts toward her in this sad hour passing
tender as was her husbands heart toward her as
together they passed through all the scenes OF
Joy and sorrow which were appointed them in life,
may the heart Of God be more tender still. Bind
her round with the sufficient consultations of thy
presence's grace, and as by faith she leans upon
the unseen of the infinite may she find
thee present help in time Of need
= sanctify this dspensation to us all May we
hear in IT the voice Of the eternal crying: Gan
nesh is grass and all the goodness thereof the
Flower of the field. The grass wtheroth, the
Flower fadeth, but the word of God will stand
Forever" Help us that we may diligently i'm
prove this providence to our growth In grace and
in the saving knowledge OF our Lord Jesus Christ
By thy grace, dear Lord, prepare us all for lifes
Duties and trials, for the soemnties Of death and
Tor blessed immortality. These and every other
needed blessing we plead for in the name OF linn
who taught us to pray:
M "our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be
thy name; thy kingdom come, thy will be done
In earth as it Is in heaven. Give us this day our
daily bread; forgive us our trespasses as we for
give those who trespass against us. Lead not
into temptation, but deliver from evil, for
thine Is the Kingdom, the power and the glory
forever and ever, Amen'
Sermon by Rev. DIR. Manchester.
~ The Nmetieth Psalm was read by DIR.
John A. Hall of the Trinity Lutheran
church of Canton, and that portion of
%the fifteenth chapter of First Corin-
thians included between the forty-f first
8and fiftietli-eighth verses was read by
REV. Il. =. IIerbruck of the Trinity
Reformed church Of Canton. The fa-
Ayorite hymn of President Mckinley,
Lcad, Kindly Light" was then rem
dered by quartet of two male and
two female voices. When this hymn
had been finished, DR.. g. E. Man
chester, pastor of the First Methodist
church, delivered his address, which
read as follows:
t Our president is dead.
The silver cord is loosed, the golden bowl Is
broken, the pitcher is broken at the fountain, the
wheel broken at the cistern The mourncrs &c
Shout the streets. One voice is heard, wall OF
sorrow from all the land, for "the beauty of Is.
gael is slain upon thy high places How are the
mighty faeni"
am distressed for thee, my brother. Very
pleasant has thou been unto us.
Our president is dead! We can hardly believe
~ We had hoped and prayed, and it seemed
that our hopes were to be realized and our pray.
ers answered when the emotion of joy was chang.
ed to one OF grave apprehension. Still wait.
ed, for said, 1T may be that God will be gra,
cious and nerciiul unto us" 1t seemed to US
that 1t must be his will to spare the life of one
10 well beloved and SO much needed. Thus, alter
mating between hope and fear, the weary hours
passed Then the tidings of defeated
science and of the failure of love and prayer to
bold its object to the earth
81 We seemed to hear the family muttcred words
"Goodby all, goodby. II is Gods way; his will
be done" and then, "Nearer, my God to thee. -
3d. nesting nearer to his God he passed out into
unconscousness, skrted the dark shores Of III,
sea of death for a time and then passed on to be
ut rest. Ills great heart had ceased to beat
Our hearts are heavy with sorrow
"a voice is heard earth of kinsfolk weeping
M The loss Of one they love
But he has gone where the redeemed are keeping
festival above.
s'The mourners throng the ways, and from thu
sccple
The funeral bells toll slow
But on the golden streets the holy people
Are pnssing to and fro.
"And saying as they meet Rcjoice Another
Long waited for is come
The Sivi0nr's heart is glad; younger brother
Has reached tile Fathers home /"
5fit The cause Of this universal mourning is to h
founi in the mnn himself The inspired pcnnan'
picture of Jonathan ikening lin unto the 'Bcai
ty of Israel could not ht more appropriated
& employed than in chanting the lament over on
ALLEN chiefdiu. II does no violence to huma
speech, nor is il fulsomc culogy to speak thus q
him, for who has his stately hearing, Iii
~ grace and manlinrss OF drmGan0r his kindnrs
Of aspect hut gives assent to this description 4
him? 1t was Characteristic Of our beloved prcs
dent that MN met him only to love him. The
might indeed differ with him, but in the prcseuc
Of such dignity Of character and grace Of manne
none could fail TO love the man, The propl
conidcd in him, believed in him. II said {
lincoln that probably man since the days
Washington ever deeply imbcdted and eI
shrined in the hearts Of the people, but Il is tri
OF Mckinley in larger sense. Industrial and Sc
cial conditions such that lie was, even nor
than his predecessors the friend Of the Who'll
people.
Ia touching scene was enacted in this churc
last Sunday night. The service had closed. TIL
worshipers were gone TO their homes. Only a fe
fingered to discuss the sad event that brings
together today. Three men in working glrb of
foreign race and unfamiliar tongue entered Il
room. They approached the altar, kneeling b,
fore it and before his picture. Their lips moved
II in prayer, while tears frrowed their check
They may have been thinking Of their own Kin
Humbert and Of his untimey death. Their EN-,
tion. was eloquent eloquent beyond specch---ir
II bore testimony to their appreciation OF mani
friendship and on honest worth.
1t il glorious thing 10 be able to say in III
presence, with illustriUus dead before u.s. tn,
~ he never betrayed the confidence of his countr,
men. Not for personal gain pre-emincn,
would he mar the beauty of his soul. He kept
clean and white before God and man, and h
hands were unsued by brbcs.
''ls eyes looked right on, and his eyelids lool
ed straight before him" He was sincere, pla
and honest Just, benevolent and kind lie nev,
disappointed those who believed in him. bI
measured up to every duty and met every 4
sponsibility in life grandly and unninclngly.
Not only was our president brave, heroic al
honest; lie was gallant a knight as ever 70,
the lists for his ladyove in the davs VIII,
knfghthood was in flower. II is but n few wer
since the nation looked with tear dimn,
eyes il with what tender conugal ,lev
tion he sat at the bedside Of his beloved wi
when all feared that fatal illness was upon h,
No public clamor that he might show himself
the populace; demand OF social function W
Sufficient to draw the lover from the bedside
his wife lie watched and waited while we d
prayed. And she lived. This sweet and tend
story all the world knows, and the world kno,
htS ub,s, ifo bDIr rtIn in