The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-09-20

| lnSly as one VINO "Hdu lHOubHlAuily
studied his subject and felt true adj
miration and love for the man. The
manner in which Mr.. Stubs handled
his subject was especially appropriate
to the occasion and was greatly en-
! joyed by his audience.
"One of our papers has graphically
| illustrated the sad event we have met
| to commemorate. A down the stream of
| time and out into the sea of eternity
| slides a boat, bearing the remains of
our dead President. Prone upon the
| shore, Frustrated by grief, lies wo-
man-Columbia, by her side another
Europa, with hand out-stretched to
| comfort and sooth her woe.
Truly we weep and the world
weeps with us. And yet we sorrow not
as those who have no hope, because we
feel and know that for a nation, as for
an individual, IL is better to go to the
house of mourning than to the house
of feasting
Come with me in thought, let US
| pass the sorrowng thousands and
work our way to the casket beside the
open grave and let us study the calm,
peaceful face of the man who lies
there.
Ere we hear the solemn Earth to
earth. dust to dust, ashes to ashes, let
us see If we can not gather from his
Ire some inspiration and hope that Will
turn our sorrow into joy and trans
form our doubling into noble deeds
Let us view him as a public man,
who from the lowest station in life
rose to the place of President of the
greatest nation on earth.
THE first lesson | would suggest is
that real success in public life is con-
sistent with Cody manhood
From private in the ranks to Presi-
dent in the White House and all along
the weary way between, no man has
dared to say that William Mckinley
was not Christian gentleman.
Let him who has said in his heart.
The Ten Commandments have no place
in politics come stand with me beside
this open grave and compare the life
and death of William Mckinley with
that of the brilliant Ingalls,. it's author,
and tell me If such sentiment be not
an insult to every American citizen.
How ere it be, it seems to me.
It's only noble to be good.
Kind hearts are more than coronets,
And simple faith than Norman
blood
Again. Real success in public life is
the result of service and not of place.
seeking.
Here lies a man who quietly and
steadily grew in influence and fame and
was elected from the office of prose-
cutting attorney in a county to repre-
sentative and senator, Governor and
President. and finally was exalted to
be a martyr to liberty, who twice
thrust from him the highest honor his
party could confer. Who was man
enough to wait for the time to come
when he could accept the place with
out Self-Seeking and the sacrifice of
honor.
"Oh, that the young men Of America
could learn that self-seeking robs Of
flee of honor and turns success into
failure.
Here lies a man who did not have
to sacrifice or neglect his private du-
ties and obligations to attain political
preferment. Faithful to his mother,
faithful to his private obligations,
faithful to his friends. faithful to his
home duties, faithful to his invalid
wife, offering to surrender all he had
to pay his debts; to become a pauper
rather than be elected to office at the
sacrifice of honor.
He earned his way to place and
power by faithful service in the place
below. His was the poets ideal of the
freedom our nation stands for, ex-
pressed in the beautiful words:
bending tree.
Nothing but a burden. is it all to me.
Tighten you my branches, let them
toss in air.
All ask is freedom, next years load
to bear
Il wonder not that strong men weep
about the bier of such a man. Here
lies a man who did not have to appeal
to the low and baser passions and pre-
JUDGES of men to reach public Office.
mo bloody shirt nor appeal to sec
tional strife was used as stepping
stones to reach the high trusts he held
Love to his fellow men. not hatred, was
his ruling motive. Did he seem weak
and swayed too much by those about
| him? Was 1t not that he might by
| putting himself in the background the
better to accomplish his purpose? He
is wiser worker who induces others
to do noble deeds than he who seeks
the credit for himself He served his
| country while he served his God.
1T is said his mothers ambition was
| for him to be a preacher. but could her
re-embodied spirit stand to-day with
us beside his open grave and see how
| his life and death have taught the
| lesson of love, and how the ears of the
| nations are open to hear his voice, as
like Abel. He being dead yet speak
eth,' doubt not she would join with
him and say 1T Is Gods way, His will
/ be done
"She could but feel that he who truly
serves his country is truly a minister
| of God. Standing by this open grave
my fellow citizens. beg you learn with
| me these lessons and let us in the
| shadow of our grief consecrate our
selves anew to the principles which
alone can make our country truly
great.
ITO truth. manliness, honor, fidel
ity and service of God and man, Sc
beautifully illustrated in the life o.
him, whom we, this day, consign t.
the tomb. We bury his body but n
| Is not dead for
"Tt Is a world of seeming,
The changeless moon seems changing
ever.
| The sun sets daily, but sets never
So near the stars, yet so far,
So small they SEEM how large thel
| are,
1t is world of seeming.
And so 1t seems that he is dead. q.
But seems so only. for instead
His life has just begun and this
Is but an empty chrysalis,
While he unseen by mortal eyes,
Now wins his way meath brighte
skies
Beyond this world of seeming
Grady beneath the shadow of Bun
ker Hill spoke in burning words of
reunited country, but it remained TO
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