The Globe-republican., 1901-09-19

there was NOT a TOOfprlnC 10 gihde n1tn
Political friends were fearful and politi-
cal enemies We're doubling.
Other nations looked on jealousy
Many newspapers werd full of fore
bodIngs or something worse.
But tIro the guiding hand of VIM.
Mckinley we have come into an era of
peace and prosperity Not in commerce
only. but in education and in religion
and phiIanthrophy.
So phenomenal is our Nations present
condition that she is the wonder of the
the age, and the old nations of Europe
stand with bated breath and wonder To
give much credit to our third Martyred
President for these conditions every
heart is ready
Now let us learn well the lessons that
come to us as citizens of this common
wealth, in this hour of sorrow. Let us
be careful how we think, for this deluded
anarchist, instead of following those
National impulses of sympathy and pity
toward others, which God planted in his
heart. allowed himself to be led away by
reasonings which run contrary to every
element of human nature. Because he
thought wrong lie raised his hand to
murder an unoffending fellow man. 1t
makes all the difference in the world what
we think, and nothing can guide Us
Alright but thinking the truth. And truth
is always in accord with divine law. If
we anarchistic enough to deny Gods
right to rule us, then are
doomed forever to wander in the crooked
and dark paths of error, and error is the
mother of misery.
The infinite God who hurls this earth
of ours along the pathway of law will
not permit man to go crashing wildly
through space as if no law governed him.
Great nature stands committed to jus
tice, and some day its Ruler will right
every wrong, and mete out justice 10
every transgressor of His law.
In all ages. whenever man has
hurled himself against these divine laws.
he has fallen upon sorrow, disaster and
death. And no less true is the bearing
of this truth upon communities. If we
lay ont civic life along lines of selfish
ness and self seeking, rather than upon
the lines of right and conscience, which
is the line of law, we are anarchistic in
spirit and our city must end its career in
sadness.
Our Nations history is full of ruins
that once were happy homes, and each
ruin represents dsobedience to some
law of God or some law of the land,
which has its basis upon that higher law.
If that disobedienee be the act of cor
poration it must be dashed to pieces as
potter's vessel, as truly as the individual
will be. Then LET us use our influence to
secure observance to the laws of the land
and the laws of God; remembering
ever, that in so far as we violate them,
are anarchists.
The world has no lasting honor for
those who seek their selfish ends regard
less of the law of right. While those
who forget themselves to remember the
needs of others, will awake some morn
ing, like that poet, to find themselves
famous.
The other lesson we have to learn is to
serve our fellow man.
There is joy in the pilots heart, who
has brought the ship through the stormy
night, through the fog, and past the dam
gerous rocks, and after thousand dam
gers drops anchor into the harbor. There
is joy of the patriot Who leads his peo-
pie through the wilderness midst all the
periIs of dissensions within and enmities
without, and beholds his people walking
in peace and prosperity. There is joy
of the physician and parent. who after
days and nights. when the child's life
hangs npon "a thread, finally discerning
that the crisis has passed, they become
conscious of the joy that sweeps over
them, even though their labor of love hae
almost cost them their own lives. Oh.
what began for them duty. ended with
delight Happiness always begins with
obedience, and the pathway of obedience
the pathway of human life. Many of
our noble souls have walked and worked
in obedience to this high law of service
and never reached the joy of their
ward, here below. Twas so with Lin
coin, the great soul who for more than
four years bore the burden of great
conflict, then just as he caught the vision
of happiness, then, 10, the sentence came
borne on the bullett of assassin.
Twas even so with Garfield. And now
again with Mckinley, and our hearts are
sad for the Nation and ourselves, that its
President has thus been smitten. But
what TO say of such untinleiy de-
partures? Under Providence, what do
they mean?
AS we wait for an answer, this thought
comes TO us: The best greatest par-