The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-09
SERMON ON ASSASSINATION.
Rev. w. w. Criley Sees Lesson i'm
the Words of james.

Rev w w Criley. of the First English
Lutheran Church. delivered a sermon TO a
large congregation yesterday morning. TAX
ing for his subject The Wrath of Man
Worketh not the Righteousness of God
He spoke OF the attempted assassination
OF President Mckinley and of the condi-
lions that have caused strife between labor
and capital and of the war between Eng
land and the Beers. He said the latter
was unjust and all of the men who had
been killed in the war were murdered.
Speaking OF the subject of the assassina-
tion he said in part:
The hatred of man is one OF the strong
est impulses working In the human breast
since the fall OF man. II manifested itself
liz Cain numbering his own brother. Those
outbreaks of anger, which we call wrath,
formed a great deal of the history of hu-
man nature because they were such promi-
nent acts in making the criminal record of
the human race. They have common orr
gin in the temper which the Bible calls
lust and they did not come from our nature
III creation.
AN INSANE IDEA
ut is an insane idea for a man to at
tribute them to a divine origin and to claim
as Guiteau did, in the assassination of
President Garfield, that the Lord had di-
rected him to do the deed. One of the best
and clearest refutations of this was that
which Judge Porter made i'm the United
States court, which tried Guiteau. when
he read the words of James, Let no man
when he's tempted say that he is tempted
o. God for God tempted no man with evil,
but lust when 1t is conceived bringeth
forth sin and sin when ii Is finished brig
eth forth death There is no cooperation
in such deeds between the wrath of man
and the righteousness of God.
These episodes spring from the general
corruption of human nature and the unity
of law in law-breaking as James says. For
whOsoever shall offend in one point is
guilty of ALL
Are we not setting the example of
breaking the law of God in keeping the
Pan-American Exposition open on the Sab
bath and teaching men to despise one of
the great commandments? And may that
not lead to other acts of lawIessness
James speaks in this epistle of the oppres-
sion of the poor and may not those who
are unfortunate In securing employment
and in the pursuits of life attribute them
To the oppression of the wealthy and the
pleasure-lcving and in their insanity at
tack even their best friends under the mis-
taken notion that they responsible for
their lack OF success.
THE THREE ASSASSINS.
"Of the three assassins of Presidents the
first was man of peculiar temperament.
who by his life as an actor had become
so accustomed to the excitement of the
serve his moral balance and imagined that
our great President was responsible for
the evils which the South had brought
upon itself, and so wreaked his vengeance
upon him. The second. a disappointed of
fice-seeker, in the heat of political strife,
imagined, as the murderer so often does.
that he could end it by the violent removal
Of one Of the parties. The third is the de-
luded boy who now lies unrepentant in his
cell unconscious of his great crime COM
mitted in the midst of one of the great
strikes of modern times who may have
been impelled by the same delusiOn that
the representative of authority is RESPONSE
BILE for all existing troubles and that
anarchy is the shortest way to liberty. The
remedy for these things is TO wait in pa
thence in that perfect law of liberty which
James speaks when he says: But whose
lOoketh into the perfect law of liberty and
continuance therein being not a forgetful
hearer. but a doer of the work this man is
blessed in his deed.
I'VE rejoice in a special providence that
has preserved the life OF our President
from the attacks of man and trust that the
many prayers will be answered for his re-
covery.
Rev. Criley offered a special prayer for
the recovery of President Mckinley.