The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-09-20
SERVICES IN SELMA
BISHOP FAREWELL SPEAKS ON
 PRESIDENTS DEATH.
In the Afternoon in Accord With Mayor McLeod's Proclamation
 Memorial Meeting Was
 Held in Academy of Music.
Advertiser Bureau,

Memorial services on the death of President Mckinley were held at St. PauFs Church today at Il o'clock. Bishop Barnwell delivered the address, but be- lore ne commenced his remarks he re- minded his congregation that at this very hour funeral services were being held over the remains of Rev. O. F. Fitz- simmons, who was knownTo many of his hearers at Monticello. Ga. The bishop then said:
 "A few weeks ago l read with a good deal of interest an address delivered by President Mckinley at the Pan-American
 Exposition. In it he laid special stress on the tremendous strides the world had made in the science of transmitting the
 news of the day. Little did he dream that the most startling illustration of the application of the science would he simultaneous notice to all the nations of the earth to gather, as one family, as one family around his grave. Sad, awful
 and heart-rending as 1t is, still, apart from the scenes recorded in Holy Scrip
 tory more sublime epoch than in our
 minds eye we behold today. In every capital of the world there are signs of
 mourning, in every city of the United every house and store, and on every ship and railway train mems thoughts are fixed on one and the self same thing. The body of a dead President lying in a coffin. a soldier on one side and a sailor on the other. standing at parade rest, a flag at half mast. partly concealed in crepe--this is the scene upon which the world is gazing today with wide open eyes as it wonders where the thunder bolt will strike next The sympathy Is uni- versal the righteous indignation Is loud and outspoken. And why? Because the late President was a good man. Because he died as he had lived in favor with God and man and in charity with the world. Partly for all these things. but mainly because. in an era of good feeling he was stricken down for no other req son than that he stood as the representa- tive of law and order and good govern ment.
 'I am here today and here not to pro- nounce his eulogy. That can be more ap- propriatey done by his own pastor, and others who know him intimately. But l am here first as the mouthpiece of the Bishop of the diocese of Alabama, to emphasize the awfulness of a crime which denounced always everywhere and continuously. will sap the foundations of all governments, social: ecclesiastical and political. Notwithstanding all that has been said in the papers, on the platform and from the pulpit, we do not yet real ize what a horrible thing hath been committed in the land Had the assassin a personal grudge or had he represented a political party or had he the epoeS st least S mo tive which would lose its power with the changing and oncoming years. But as the blow was struck at organized society in any form, and under any con- ditions, who can fail to see that the ulti- mate outcome will he absolute and uncon- ditional lawlessness in the social and industrial as we'll as the political world.
 And secondly, I am here as a citizen of country whose chief executive is my representative. and the representative of all my friends and neighbors and &C., quaintances. He is our head either by our vote or our sanction, and hence war against him is war against us and against all that we love. honor and revere. As has been said over and over again dur ing the past fortnight, a single individual has openly defied seventy mllnons of citizens.
 If then. the late President was the legally appointed representative of seven ty million people. and if all these are as one in denouncing the man by whom he was murdered, how Is it that the mur derer still lives despite the horrible crime he has committed? Because until he has been tried and convicted he is protected by the very government whose laws he hated and defied. What an object lesson of the majesty of law! For my single self .and trust I voice the sentiment of all thoughtful and lawabiding citizens. rejoice that President Mckinley's assas- sin escaped the fury of the mob, for lynch-law and anarchy are twin sisters. and how can we denounce the one If We openly endorse the other. In this particu- lar case. as in all others. let sentence be executed speedily" but let 1t be execut- cd by those in authority. that our chill dren and children's children may learn tO IedGs respect anu TtNGEcHCc idWs TUT of flaw there can he no less acknowl- edgement than that her seat is In the bosom of God. her voice the harmony of the world all things in heaven and earth do her homage. the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not except ed from her power.
 Tn burying the dead the church has and permits but one service. The king and the peasant. the rich and the poor. the learned and the unlearned are all buried alike. Distinctions there may be as when a man is well-known or not well-known; but these distinctions are not of the church's making: they grow out of conditions and circumstances that are unavoidable. Still over earth and all the words are uttered: Man that is born of q woman hath but a short time to live, earth to earth. ashes to ashes. dust to dust" In this the church teaches an ad- mirable lRsson. and her ministers trained in her ways. have ipbued her spirit and seldom allude to the deeds and virtues of the lofty ones of the earth Why Is it that we make such an exception today? Because the heinousness of the crime the possibility of its being re- peated anywhere and at any time, and above all the pol o'sonousness of the germ of which 1t is the necessary fruit forces upon us the question of a remedy. And a large question it is. We are to wage war against an unseen foe. It is not enough that we execute speedily" this that, or another anarchist; for we are not so much concerned with the symptoms as we are with the disease. The spirit of wherever found, whether in