The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-09-19
BODY CONSIGNED TO THE TOMB
Grief.Stricken Nation Performs the Final Rites
Over the Body of President Mckinley.

word of our God will stand forever. Help
US that we may diligently improve 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 life's duties and trials, for the
solemnities of death and for a blessed i'm
mortality These and every other needed
blessing we plead for in the name of Him
who taught US to pray. (The Lords prayer
concluded the supplcation.)
The ninetieth Psalm was read by DR..
John A. Hall Of the Trinity Lutheran
church Of Canton and that portion of the
fifteenth chapter OF First Corinthians in
cluded between the 41st and 5Sth verses
was read by Rev. E. P. Herbrouck of the
Trinity Reformed church of Canton. The
favorite hymn of President Mckinley.
Lead, Kindly Light" was then rendered
by a mixed quartet.
DR.. Manchester's Sermon.
When this hymn had been finished, DR..
c. E. Manchester, pastor of the First
Methodist church, delivered his address az
follows:
Our president is dead The silver cord is
lloosed, the golden bowl is broken, the pitcher
is broken at the fountain. the wheel broken
at the cistern. The mourners go about the
streets. One voice is heard-a wall of sorrow
from all the land, for the beauty of Israel is
slain Upon the high places, How are the
mighty fallen!
am distressed for thee, my brother. Very
pleasant hast thou been unto me-.
Our president Is dead. We can hardly be-
leve it. We had hoped and prayed, and it
seemed that our hopes were to be realized
and our prayers answered when the emotion
Of joy was changed to one Of grave appre-
hension. Still we waited, for we said sit
may be that God will be gracious and merci-
full unto u.s. 1t seemed to us that it must
be his will to spare the life of one so well
beloved and SO much needed. THUS, alternat-
ing between hope and fear the weary hours
passed on. Then came the tidings Of defeated
science of the failure of love and prayer to.
hold it's object to the earth. We seemed to
hear the family muttered words: Goodbye,
all, goodbye. It's Gods way. His will be
DONE" and then, Nearer, my God, to thee"
So Nesting nearer to his God, he passed out
into Inconsistencies, skirted the dark shores
of the sea Of death for time, and then
passed on to be at rest. His great heart had
ceased to beat. Our hearts are heavy with
sorrow.
A voice is heard on earth of kinsfo1k weeping
The loss Of one they love:
But he has gone where the redeemed are
keeping
A festival above.
The mourners throng the ways and from the
the steeple
The funeral bells toll slow:
But on the golden streets the holy people
Are passing to and fro.
And saying as they meet, 'Re1oice, another
Long waited for is come.
ho ouin hpa VI q UoFp hrN
Has reached the Fathers home"
Like Jonathan.
The cause OF this universal mourning is to
be found in the man himself The inspired
penmans pictures Of Jonathan, 1ikening him
unto the Beauty of Israel" could not be
more appropriately employed than in chanting
the lament Of our fallen chieftain. It does no
violence to human speech, nor Is 1t fulsome
eulogy to speak thus Of him, for who that
has seen his stately bearing, his grace and
manliness of demeanor, his kindliness of as
pect, but gives assent to this description Of
him? 1t was characteristic Of our beloved
president that men met him only to love him.
They might, indeed, differ with him, but in
the presence Of such dignity Of character and
grace OF manner none could fall to love the
man. The people conflded in him, believed in
him. It was said of Lincoln that probably
no man since the days of Washington was
ever so deeply tmbedded and enshrined in the
hearts of the people, but 1t is true Of Nc
kinley in larger sense. Industrial and So
cial conditions are such that he was, even
more than his predecessors, the friend Of the
whole people