Evening star., 1901-09-23

the people. as he showed the whole world
now Christian living ends in Christian dy-
,g ing. He has gone on ahead. But Ike the
| light of a vanished star his life will still
shine upon us with its great bequest of ar
| inspiring example. which shall lift us
nearer to God. Our best tribute to his
memory viii be to follow him as he fol
| lowed Christ"
The Invocation.
An invocation was pro1ounced by Rev.
| George p. Wilson of Assambly's I'resoy-
terian Church.
Under the shadow of n great sorrow
| We bow our heads before Thee" prayed
DR.. Wilson. I'VE had hoped that the great
| aeart which had grown so sweet, so Gear
| and so strong, might be saved to us and
| 10 the nation. But IN l.s own fnel words
| We say, Thy will be done
| BLESS today his widow in her lonelnes ess
1 and make her we'll again.
BLESS the Presden. of the United States
under such difiicnle circumstances coming
/ to the seat of power. May ali the splendid
! promises of his past career be more than
realized In the days to come
DR.. Wilson prayed for the nation and for
| the assassin. I've would not stay swift
| and ready justice, but give him the better
mind and stay the increase of his kind"
| Chopin's funeral march by the Marine
Sand followed the prayer.
Patriotism of Mckinley.
| Rev. George Buckler of the Methodist
| Episcopal Church was introduced by Com
missioner Macsarland and spoke most elo-
i eIently of the virtues of William Mckin-
| ley. He placed pa.iiu;isn. at the head OF
| these virtues, saying that the martyred
| President loved ais flag not only because
| Of it's beauty, bul because of the princl-
pies 1t represented: because OF the liberty
| it stood for. and because he had fought
| for it. He asked a blessing OH the new
| II resident and on "tha woman VINO weeps
1
| over, the grave Of hor beloved dead, where
| liest the tenderes. of husbands, the truest
| of lovers, the mos- faithful of friends. We
| ask 1t in the name of the President of tre
| greater republic, the chief executive of the
United States, Of the world, the King
| of Kings and Lord OF Lords"
Rev. ]. G. Butler of the Lutheran Church
| began his tribute with the sentiment that
| silence was more befitting the occasion
than speech. The vocabulary of the nation
| had been exhausted, he said, both in de-
| nouncing the crime and in praise fQr the
| heroic life and death of the martyr. Pres
| ident Mckinley needs no eulogy,' he con-
tinued. His whole life from boyhood to
| the morning of his translation when God 8
angel came and took him, stands as his
| best eulogy. A united, peaceful, prosper
| Gus, happy country rises up to bless him.
The world gathered at this new-made
| grave, and with uncovered head sheds tears
! OF sympathy The hearts of rulers and the
| hearts of the people have been made better
| for the life and death of William McKin-
| ley He was Gods benediction to this land.
| But we must turn away from the grave
We may not live in the gloom. 1t is for
| you and me- with manly faith and courage,
| to take up the burdens of life and enter
| with better equipment into It's battles"
Lessons CT fortitude and faith were to be
! learned from the life and death of the
mourned President said the speaker He
| predicted a great spiritual uplifting among
| all the people of the earth as the result of
| the martyrdom of this greatest man in
| American history
DR.. Staford's Address.
Rev. D. j. Stafford of st. Patrick's Ro-
man Catholic Church was the next speaker.
He said:
"Over seventy millions Of people bow down
by the grave in the little church yard at
Canton, shedding tears of real affection and
real love, while all the world stops to look
on with sympathy, aye, and shed tears OF
sympathy, with And out beyond the
| light Of civilization. into the dark places
of barbarism, as the message is waited
around the world. men stop and think. and
all the world is sad. for William Mckinley
is dead.
WAS ever man so mourned?
Did ever man so deserve the mourning?
What was 1t in the life of this man
that won the love of the people? What
was it that won the love of the world?
| He was so patient. He was so gentle. lie
was so kind He was SO considerate so
affabIe, SO condescending, so devoted in
| guiding the ship of state through perilous
storms to the clear beyond that men came
| to the conclusion that his character seem
| ed TO be so perfect that 1t could not be
| genuine. And l doubt not there are men
| listening to me today who have thought
| William Mckinley was an actor,
"Oh, misery of life, that we cannot rec
ognize and appreciate the good qualities Of
man, at their full value until they are
dead.
What was the motive power from which
all these things sprang? 1t was not hts
exalted position, though that was high. II
was not his great success as a political
man. 1t was not even the great events in
| which he took part. No. There was some
everything else had failed it turned the
most dreadful disaster into the greatest
possible triumph. and saved the nation
from frenzy of madness. When mericine
could do no more. When science wept by
his bedside because she was impotent.
When all the wealth of the nation, If 1t
had been asked, would have come out OF
every Individual home and would have heap
this man William Mckinley arose In the
magnifcence Of his character and In his SUI
blime Christian conviction and Christian
faith, superior to the great disaster. and
infused hope into the heart OF the nation
by his religion
1T was the faith and character of the
man which stood out so great and so
strong in that supreme hour
Let his memory live, and let every man
profit by his example. Let every man re-
view in his heart his loyalty and love for
the principles for which Mckinley stood
when the memorial bridge, in which he
took so great an interest is thrown across
the Potomac. place him on pinnacle With
Washington and Lincoln. and on the bot
tom Of that pinnacle write these words:'Wii-
liam Mckinley, President of the United
States, shot in Buffalo. by an enemy Of
civilization, where he died heroic death in
sublime Christian faith, speaking these.
his last words-It is Gods way. His will
be done. Nearer, My God. to Thee, Near
er, to Thee.'-and all the nation, and every
man that thinks and every man that has
a human heart in his breast will be made
better and drawn nearer to God by that
sublime example"
Draws q Parallel.
"Face to Face was touchingly rendered
as a solo by little Miss May Bucker. after
which Rev. J. NJ. Schick, President Roose-
yelt's pastor, was introduced. DR.. Schick
spoke reminiscently Of an occasion ten years
ago when President Mckinley. who was
then governor of Ohio. spoke at a memo-
rial service to General Gibson. What Gov
ernor Mckinley had said of General Glib
son was applicable now. said DR.. Schick,
and that was that the most enduring memo