The Washington times., 1901-09-20
THE LASTING MEMORIAL.
Justice Brewer and DR.. Gates Point
Ont the Lessons of His Death.
Prevention of Slight Infrnctions OF
Law DiscOurnges Greater ones
Strength of the American Peopie
shown in Unanimity OF Eriei'

Strength of the American People
shown in Unanimity of Grief.
AT the First Congregational Church
yesterday services of tribute to the late
President we're conducted by DR.. Merrill
E Gates. formerly President of Amherst
College. An address was also delivered
by Mr. Justice David J. Brewer, of the
United States Supreme Court. The eX-
erciscs were opened by a musical serE-
ice Prof. Bischoff rendered an organ
prelude, which was followed by "Hark.
Hark, My Soul" Lead, Kindly Light,
and Crossing the Bar by the choir.
Dr. Gates opened the service by scrip
ture reading, after which j. IL. Bradford,
chaplain of the Loyal Legion, offered
prayer, in which there was tribute paid
President Mckinley and supplication
for the new Executive.
Justice Brewer spoke feelingly of the re
cent bereavement which the nation has
suffered. He said in part:
There are a number of lessons to be
drawn from the assassination of President
Mckinley by an anarchist. One which
should be borne home to every citizen OF
the nation, whether in or out of office, Is
the necessity of a personal respect Tor
the law. We denounce the assassination
as a horrible crime. We denounce an
archism as the spirit of lawlessness, ana
its followers as outlaws because they look
upon all forms of government as wronS
and all men in office as their enemies.
But while anarchism may be the extreme
of iawlessness, and anarchists the worst
of outlaws, every breaking of the law
breathes, though perhaps in a slight de-
ample is better than precept, and every
one may well remember that he does
something toward checking the spirit of
lawlessness and preventing the spread of
anarchism when in his own life he mani
tests constant and willing obedience in
letter and spirit to all the mandates of
the law.
The anarchist declares that all govern
ment is wrong. He processes to be the
enemy of all rulers. Social institutions
as they ara he denounces, pleading that
they are unjust and oppressive. Now, if
the workings of the social order are made
such as to ensure justice and peace and
comfort to all, slowly the spirit of an
archism will disappear. for all will feel
that society as it exists is a blessing
rather than a curse to them. And each
one of us may III his place and life help
to make all these workings of society
cleaner and better, gentler and purer-
more helpful to those who need, less bur-
densome to those who toll, and richer in
all things to all men.
If the American people shall not spend
all its energies in denunciation of this
awful crime or in efforts by force to re-
move anarchism and anarchists from our
midst. but moved and touched by the
sad lesson, shall strive to fill the social
life with more sweetness and blessing,
then will it be that William Mckinley,
great in life, viii become, partly on ac-
count of the circumstances of his death.
greater and more influential in the future !;
an enduring blessing to the nation of
which he was the honored ruler
DR.. Gates spoke of the President as a
manly. deyont Christian, quiet and unas-
Stunning. Among other things he said:
From the suffering of these last days
there has come to all thoughtful souls a
fresh and strong conviction of the unity
of our people, of the unchanged and deep
enfng yigor and whoiesomeness of our
national life. And this conviction has
come to us through our sense of great
loss. through the universal appreciation
OF the very noble Characteristics of that
deeply loved man. the head of our nation,
whom this shocking crime has taken from
us.
NO ruler in the world was so deeply
anu illttilBtlliN iONtu Dy 50 MANY MIL
lions of people No ruler could have met
the sudden breaking of ali his plans. the
quick and supreme call for the surrender
of authority, of office, and of life itself,
with more absolutely unfaltering trust
and submission to the holy will of God
The love the people bore to him and the
loving surrender he showed to the will of
God must work together TO sancrify and
bless this loss to the national life of
our beloved land.
William Mckinley, coming up from the
people by a life career that the people
could understand, trust and admire was
endeared TO the nation by all the SOL
dierly memories of the war too, and yet
in the war that gave him that humble
military title. doubly endeared to us all
now as ii falls from the lips of the one
who most deeply mourns him. He served
as the rank and file serve. faithfully and
honorably. and yet in no such way that
anyone would say of him it was his war
record that made him President AT every
point of his career he has been of the
people, from the people, with the people
yet with honor and with God For the
last twenty years he has been a leader
But wonderful as has been his leadership
in these latest years. he has not led the
people by eXhorting them to be led. He
has led them by himself going along that
triotism. and high principle which is the
true and natural road for American citi-
zens.
''The solution of the problem of an
archy must be found in the spirit of Jesus
Christ and we must weld the other great
questions of national life in the same
way"
The services were concluded by the rem
dition of Nearer. My God. TO Thee
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