Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-11-21

The people, there was no lack either of
loyal hearts or strong hands or abundant
means to carry on the great contest. Who
can comprehend the extent, the scope of
mat momentOuS contest, covering an area
thre" times greater than that of Great
Britain and Ireland and France and Ger
many combined, as large. in fact, as that
Of all Europe, Russia alone excepted, EN-
ploying in actual warfare armed men. the
flower of the nation, greater in number
than the entire population of the colonies
at the time of the revolution, in which
the sacrifice of human life was made by
more than a third of a million Of men,
conducted at an expense SO enormous that
comparisons fail to indicate its vast pro-
portions? And yet the nation thrived.
swords We're beaten into plOWShares, the
vast armies melted away into peaceable
and law-abidlng Inhabitants each bet
ter citizen because he had been good
soldier, and OF all the great leaders not
olo was tempted to assume imperial or
aictatorial powers.
OF this citizenship President Mckinley
was the highest and most perfect type.
beginning his career as a private soldier
I'm the defence of the life of the nation,
ending 1t as its chief magistrate, loved
aud trusted by all.
What was the underlying principle of
his life. the real foundation of his Sue
c'ss? Was it because OF great intellectual
power? or a great Development of the
moral faculties? or was it a combination
OF both? The circumstances under whiu ii
he came into the world We're not unlike
those surrounding thousands of our youth
who are cursed neither by abJcct poverty
nor by great wealth. He was h,ssCd
with a sound body and sound mind; he
cam" of honest stock, of parents who had
convictions which they lived up to; he in
hat sI,i .,l,
ght and impulses which were manly and
noble II was but natural that with such
70 nature and with such an Inheritance and
with such instruction. there should come
into his young life that peculiar expert
onCe in respect of religious things which
lot only has a remarkable developing IN
tlcnCc upon the moral powers, but whlch.
-ving new views of life, quickens the In
lloct and sets in operation forces when
dominate ones future. right conCep-
lion of the fathcrhood of God and the
brotherhood of man Is a revelation, great
rr ana more impressive to the young per-
naps than to the old. and one that re-
vcal5 to HIM principles which are eternal
in duration and which are the lcaTeElnS
power of tho kingdom of God in the
world. This awakening came to Mckln-
ley in the midst Of that remarkable period
Just previous to the War of the Rebellion,
when the conscience and intellect of the
nation were in their fullest operation,
when men realized that the progress OF
government and the maintenance pt
free institutions was in the balance, ana
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