The Brunswick times-call. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1900-1902, 1901-09-21

has lived it well-so we'll that we may
not doubt he has gone where tolls, and
cares, and troubles never come. He is
called away in the very zenith of his
fame. What little he lacked Ct hand>
ing his name down to all the yet IN
born generations who are to people the
earth before the end of time. has been
supplied by the manner and cause Of
his death. He gave his life for this
nation more truly than does the martial
hero who marches to the lannon's
mouth at the head of armed columns,
and psrishes In the heat and exotic
ment OF q great battle. He saw his
duty, snd he never faltered. His soul
today is In the paradise CT the bieseed,
and his name and fame are the pTeci.
Qua heritage OF civilized men to The
end of time; OF men everywhere who
love the good and the true, and 20 tht m
it shall grow dearer, clearer, brighter
as goodness and truth more and more
overspread the earth. An, no. Not
for him we mourn. There is q noble
selfshness that makes Us kssnly feel
our loss; bat let nobler generosity. q
grand altruism, rejoice with him, an d
temper our sense of bereavement, be-
cause he has been called up higher.
But again, why do We speak Of Will
liam Mckinley as a Christian man ?
It has not been given to most Ct us
even to see him; still fewer have
known him at all we'll; aud probably
not one of us has been admitted to that
intimacy which would enable us to
pronounce q reasonably correct judgs
ment of his life. We read of his touch,
ing deyotion 70 his invalid wife, aud
We say that is q Christian trait. All,
beloved, IL he was a Christian what
We read Of bis married life is but o
glimpse, q A. ietiDg glimpse of she beau
tiful oneness known only 10 the sacred
privacy of his own home. The "twain
made one" by the sacrsmsn,al marrIsE .
sanctioned by q true Christ ia atty can
meyer show the world the oneness it
alone can feel and realizs. The beauty
Of the Christian home where true
marriage makes holy every rela-
tion can be described by no glowing
words. Men saw, and the papers
ohroniclsd the tenderness OF this strong
man for the delicate woman God gave
him to be o very pert of himself; buc
only their own son's felt the holy Joy
of the sacred oneness which came to
them when they were pronounced man
and wife. Not his Christian living
with her, then; not any of the Chris
tian acts which so thickIy dotted the
pathway of his life, nc al VI hsm PUT
together. constitute the proof that be
had lived "to keep himself uDspotted
from the world" 1t has ever been
held that what is universally believed
must be very near truth. The un1ver-
sal desire Of man for immortality, the
81 verssl belief that thst desire has
been gratified, 10 taken az the strongest
proof that there is an everlasting life
beyond the grave. All men. every
where, believe in the true, pure, sweet,
simple Christianity of William Nc
zinley, and in believing it prove it.
In recognition of his Christian chaFac.
Ter the rulers OF Europe have done for
lim what has never been done before.
Within the Eve days last past, il clud-
ne this sad day in which we are put
ing out Of sight the mortal remains of
'ur loved hero-mar'yr, in every Chris