The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-09-25
REV. DR. M'lANE'S SERMON
INTER EsTING DISCOURSE AT THE
 PLYMOUTH CHURCH SUNDAY

The Subject was "The Product of
 Christian civilization Versus the
 Product of Anarchy" or s'Some Les
 sons From the Life and Death of
 President McKinley,"-How to Sup
 press Anarchy.
 The Rev. w. w. McLane, D. D., pas tor of the Plymouth Congregational church, delivered an impressive sermon at his church Sunday morning on the topic "The Product of Christian Civili- zation versus the Product of Anar- chism," or Some Lessons from the Life and Death of President McKin- ley"
 The preacher dwelt largely on the topic of anarchy and its remedies and chose for his text the following pas sages from Romans XIII:1-5
 Let every soul be in subjection to the higher powers: for there is no power but of God; and the powers that be are ordained of God. Therefore he that resisteth the power, withstandeth the ordinance of God and they that withstand shall receive to themselves judgment. For rulers are not terror to the good work, but to the evil. And wouldest thou have no fear of the power? Do that which is good and thou shalt have praise of the same; TOT he is a minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which Is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword In vain; for he is minister of God, an avenger for wrath to him that doeth evil. Wherefore ye must needs be Ill subjection, not only because of the wrath, but also for conscience sake.
 Rev. Dr. McLane spoke as follows:
 Now that the days of suffering and suspense are ended; now that the spirit of President Mckinley has returned to God who gave it; now that his body has been laid to rest to mingle with its kindred dust; now that words of eulogy have been fit1y spoken of his personal purity, his piety, his love of his kin dred. his patriotism, his ph1lanthroplc purposes and his eminent public ser vices, we may we'll pause while the hush Of sorrow still quiets our hearts and makes us conscious of the deeper things of life and consider some lessons taught us by the life and death of Will liam Mckinley.
 Sometimes two streams of widely diff ferent origin meet and mingle and one of the streams, and that not the better one, seems to dominate ana destroy the other. One stream had its origin far ,1p among the mountains and flowed over rocky beds and beneath forest trees where its clear waters were fecked by sunlight and the shadows of tremulous leaves; and then on through verdant meadows delighting with us pure waters all who dwelt along It's banks; the other had its origin at the base of foot hills and flowed W'&'n narrow banks of clay and through manufacturing villages where It's wa ters were defiled by the waste Of fac- tories and the sewage Of houses; as these two streams meet and mlngle the latter discolors. defiles and apparently destroys the life of the former: put, 1T VOL follow them far enough and the conditions are favorable, the deposits and the defilements of the latter are left behind and the pure water or the other emerges in triumph by those laws by which water purifies itself and HoWs on in it's clear beauty to meet the great ocean. So sometimes In the course O. human history two lives of different or igin and past conditions meet ana the baser life seems to beat down and de- stroy the better one. But the triumph is only apparent: for by those laws ef spiritual survival which have prevailed of hI1y a n hiSTDTN 1t is Abel and not Cain who being dead. yet speaketh;" it is Christ anu not Caiaphas who rises from the dead to- be "alive forevermore."
 Of this law we have had a new il- 1ustration. On sunny Septemoer day. in a place where from two eonti- nents the products of peaceful arts were gathered, in a social assembly, two men, hitherto strangers, suddenly met. The one was the President or the United States, who on that sunny daE, in that place of peace in that soc'al assembly, stood there with love swell ing in his heart and kindness beanl'ng from his face ready to take the ndno of the humblest citizen as though he were his own brother; the other was Czolgosz. an unknown man, with hate in his heart and a deadly purpose i'll hls mind, waiting to strike blow which might tend to destroy government. Suddenly a hand Is uncovered, plsto' gleams, a flash of flame is seen, re- port rings through the room and the president steps back fatally wounded. The deed was one of treachery and for moment it seemed to be deed or triumph Its issue is the death ot the man assassinated it's issue will als3 De the death of the assassin. It is easy to eulogize the former and to denounce the latter, for the deed was demoniacal. But 1t will be more profitable for us to inquire into the antecedents of these two men and to consider the causes which made them to differ and which resulted in this deadly deed. this ap- parent calamity. this national sorrow. These two men cannot be separated from their fellowmen and made to stand alone as though they had creater and made themselves. They are the products of ideas, sentiments, thoughts and speech by which they have been inspired. educated and controlled William Mckinley is the product, the flower and the fruit of Christian civili- zation; Leon Czolgosz is the product of