The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1901-09-25

go: Lincoln club of New Brighton. Pa.
Seventh divsion-Oflcials and citi-
gems of various Ohio cities.
Arriving at the cemetery the caslret
was mounted on supports beside the
walk and at the entrance to the receiy-
ing vault unIu the last concourse had
marched by. Then the remains of
william Mckinley were consigned to
the vault there to remain until the
final burial place is constructed. A
guard was placed about the vault
which will be maintained night and
day until the Anal interment.
FUNERAL SERMON.
Loving Tribute of Iastor of church
Who're mckinley Worshipcd.
Canton. o., Sept. 19.-Following is
the address of Rev. @. q Manchester,
in the church:
Our president is daadI The silver
cord is loosed; the golden bowl is
broken; the pitcher is broken at the
fountain, the wheel is broken at the
cistern, the mourners go aoout the
streets one voice is heard-a vail
of sorrow from all tho land for the
beauty OF Israel Is siuin upon the
high places. low ara the mighty fall.
en-! am distressed Tor thee. my
brother. Very pleasant hast thou
been unto me.
Our president is I-ad! We can
hardly believe It. ~ ii ID hoped and
prayed and 1t scenic l;at our hopes
were to be realized LII our prayers
answered when the emotion of JOY
was changed TO one of grave appre-
hension. still We waited for we said:
at may be that God Will DO gracious
and merciful unto uB."
1t sceme. to us that 1t must be His
will to spare the life of one so well
beloved and SO much needed. Thus
alternating between hope and fear the
weary hours passed on. Then came
the tidings OF defeated sciences, of
the failure of love and prayer to hold
its object 10 the earth. We seemed
to hear the family muttered words:
Good bye all, good bye, It's God's
way. His Till be DONE" and Nearer
My God 10 Thee" So nesting nearer
to his God, he passed out into uncon-
Rciousness, skirted the dark shores of
the sea OF death for time, and then
passed on to be at rest. His great
heart had ceased to beat. Our hearts
are heavy with sorrow.
A vote i, is heard on oOrthof kinsfolk weeping
But IL has zone where the redeemed arc
a festival above. [stecple
The mourncrs throng the ways and from tho
Tho funeral bells toll slow;
But on the gohen streets the holy people
Are passing to and fro.
And saying as they meet 'Rcjoice. another.
Long waited for Ia como;
The Snvior's heart Is glad. n younger brother
Has reached the Fathers home"
The cause of this universal mourn
ing is to be found in the man himself
The inspired penman's picture of
Jonathan likening him unto the beau
ty of Israel could not be moro appro-
priately employed than in chanting
the lament of our fallen cnieftain. 1t
does no violence to human speech, nor
is 1t fulsome eulogy to speak thus of
him, for who that has seen his stately
bearing, his graces and manliness of
demeanor, his kindness of aspect,
but gives assent to this description of
him? 1t was characteristic of our be-
loved president to meet him only to
love him. They might indeed diner
with him, but in the presence of such
dignity of character and grace of man.
ner none could fail to .Cge the man.
The people conlided In him, believed
in him. 1t was said of Lincoln that
probably no man since the Gays of
washington WIS eNSI 6O uSGply
bedded and enshriled in the hearts
of the people, but it is true of Nc
in a larger sense. Industrial and So
cial conditions are such that he was,
even more than his predecessors, the
friend of the whole people. A touch
ing scene was enacted in this church
last Sunday night. The services had
closed. The worghippers were gone
to their homes. Only a few fingered
to discuss the sad event that brings us
together today. Three men in work.
ing garb of foreign race and unfa-
miliar tongue entered the room. They
approaced the altar. kneeling before
it and before his picture. Their lips
moved as ii in prayer while tears fur
rowed their cheeks. They may have
been thinking of their own King Hum
bert, and of his untimely death. Their
emotion was eloquent, eloquent be-
yond speech and it bore testimony to
their appreciation of manly friendship
and of honest worth.
1t is a glorious thing to be able to
say in this presence with our illus
trious dead before us that he never
betrayed the confidence of his coun-
trymen. Not for personal gain or pre-
eminence would he mar the beauty OF
his soul. He kept 1t clean and white
before God and man and his hands
were unaIlled by brides.
"His eyes looked right on and his
feared that a fatal illness was upon
her. No public clamor that he might
show himself to the populace, no de
mand of social function was sufi-
Client to draw the lover from the bed
side of his wife. He watched and
waited while we all prayed, and she
lived. This sweet and tender story all
the world knows and the world knows
that his whole life had run in this one
groove OF love. His was a strong arm
that she leaned upon and 1t never fail
ed her. Her smile was to him more
than the plaudits of the multitude and
for greeting his acknowledgements of
them must wait. After receiving the
fatal wound. his first thought was that
the terrible news might be broken
gently to her. May God in this deep