The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-09-16
CLERCYS
TRIBUTE.
Priests and Ministers Unite
in Eulogy Of President
Mckinley.
ANARCHY STRONGLY DENOUNCED
Stringent Measures to Protect
the Government Urged
BY All.
MEMORIAL SERVICES TO BIZ HELD
Westminster Presbyterian
and Parmly Memorial to
Have Exercises
Thursday.

In every section of the city the churches
were crowded with congregations of men.
women and children with heads bowed in
sorrow and reverence awaiting the COM
ments of dominic, priest, pastor or RABBI,
and ready to join in any prayer for the
riddancc of those who teach anarchy IN
this free republic. Jews and Gentle,
Catholic and Protestant prayed alike.
Union memorial services, in which six
churches will combine, will be held at the
Westminster Presbyterian Church, Sum-
init and Magnolia avenues, Thursday
evening, out of respect to the memory of
the late martyred President William Nc
Kinley. The churches that will be repre-
sented at the union service are:-St. Paul 8
Lutheran, Rev. Frederick Hottie; Summit
Avenue Baptist, Rev Walter Swaffield;
First United Presbyterian, Rev. Andrew
Henry; Simpson NJ. E., Rev. R. Ayls-
worth; Grace NJ. E., Rev. 7. c. Mayham,
and Westminster Presbyterian, Rev. A.
N. Thompson.
The programme as arranged is as fol-
lows:-Rev. Henry will preside and the ad-
dresses will be limited to ten minutes
each. The addresses will be to the fol-
lowing topics
Affection of the Foreign Population for
the Late President Mckinley and for
American institutions. Rev. Hottie.
mckinley in Arms. Rev. T. c. May
ham.
Mckinley as Statesman. Rev. A.
N. Thompson.
Mckinley as Christian.''-Rev. R. M.
Aylsworth.
s'The Voice of God to the Nation. Rev
Walter A. Swaffield.
The church will be draped in mourning,
the work being done under the super
vision of Mrs. John Willis, Messrs. Rich
ard Lahey and James E. Banks.
The Rev. Madison Hare of Parmiy Mem
orial Church announces a service in mem-
ory of President Mckinley for Thursday
AZ eleven o'clock. The names of the
speakers will be announced tomorrow.
The Rev. Father L. c. M. Carroll, pas
tor of st. Patrick's R. C. Church, at all
the services yesterday referred to the
death of President Mckinley. He said
the entire country was Sn mourning lie
added
..While we may differ in politics we do
not in patriotism The anarchists ought
to be banished from this country as 81
Patrick banished the snakes from Ireland
They are viper on the bosom OF the
party polite"
Mckinley memorial service was held
at Simpson Methodist Church last even
ing. The church was draped in mourn
ing. The choir rendered special pro-
gramme. In the course of his sermon,
entitled "our Nations Grief; or, Our
Fallen President" the Rev. DR.. K M.
Aylesworth said, among other things
choose my text from Samuel, ill.,, 80:
know ye not that there is a prince and
a great man fallen in Israel
..The sun does not set on the flags
nalf masted as Phaeton courses in his
chariot around the orb. That has never
been the case at the death of any other
American This is true because of our
dependencies, for the sun has not set
upon the Philippines until after the alarm
has broken in Porto Rico. And he VINO
lies cold in death at Buffalo mas peen
the cause of this more than any otner
American citizen. He is mourneo thus
broadly also because of his broad Chrls-
tian statesmanship and of the tenderness
and gentleness of his personal character.
The manner of his passage mas Deen SO
startling that the whole world has heard
the report of that pistol that rung out
on the air in the Temple of Music anq
has felt the sting of the bullet
ssWilliam Mckinley was born January
90. 1913. in Niles, Ohio. and inherited the
traits of character that has brought ms
domestic life so affectingly peiore the
world and made his friendships in the
political arena and his broader public lie
ever verdant and enduring. AS scholar
and school teacher, as postal, ,1,ierS cieaS
States Congressman and as Governor OF
proud Ohio, President of the greatest Re
public of the world and martyr, he has
ever been consistent with the characteris-
tics of Christian gentleman and en-
during friend. His statesmanshlp mas
been pronounced and of the highest or
Clay and Daniel Webster, he has carried
elements of both into his public career,
1.-THE Mckinley tariff bill so earnestly
and bitterly contested mas been conceaeo
been blessing to the, country. me
largeness of his grasp and breadth OF OBJ
servation is clearly seen IN ms great
in that he advised the withdrawal of his
tariff measure as he perceived its work
was done His action throughout the
tory and in history's full light com
inends itself to every American patriot.
sNo one can refer to William Mckinley
and holiest Of ties which in his life made
him an ardent lover Of his afflicted COM
panion to the moment of their separation.
current in washington that the sugges-
tion Of William Mckinley for President
came from the official households of the
Capital while he was Congressman resi-
dent there because of the admiration
thus engendered. Like Queen Victoria,
in the purity of her life, so his spotless
domestic and public career will remain
a lesson to the whole world for a genera
tion yet to come, As a Christian Will
lam Mckinley. like another martyred
President had been minister Of the
Gospel being at one time licensed N