The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-16
FROM CITY PULPITS
ELOQUENT ,rntBUrEs PAID TO
MEMORY or THE DEAD
PRESIDENT
HIS CHARACTER AS A MAN
Late ExecutiVeSs Sterling Christian
Charact4fu won for Him the
Esteem or The Whole
WorId.

In almost all the Protestant churches
III ST. Paui sermons were preached bear
| ing on the death Of the president. .Spe-
ciai emphasis was laid on his character
| as a man, apart from his eminence as
a. statesman and politician.
REV. JOHN SINCLAIR.
Rev. John Sinclair, Of the First Presby-
terrain church, took as the text for his
| morning discourse, Rev. VIII, 10: '"The
Lamb which is In the midst of the
| throne steer 1ffsf
| He said in part: "The whole nation
is mourning today More than faint
| echees of mourning are being heard
from all the civilized nations of the
world. On Friday evening when the news
spread that the end of President Nc
klnley was near men wept as only strong
men weep. The death of any president
would cause sorrow, but only the death
OF a Mckinley could cause sorrow so
deep, SO intense, so far-reaching as that
which is now spread over the land
Men are mourning today the death
Oh the president in his official capacity
In his relation to the country, for he
was an officer of profound mental grasp,
philosophic insight and wise statesman
snip, VINO In the capacities of patriot.
soldier, lawyer, congressman, governor,
ana president has done more possibly
TO advance the best interests of the
Unleed states and to give it a foremost
place among the great powers of the
world than any other man who has lived
before him. His lot was cast in the pres
ldent1al chair at a time when issues
arose, great national and International
issues, which could only have been dealt
with satisfactorily by a man with his
breadth OF mind and his far-seeing sagac-
lIy. Inc Lord has been very kind to our
nation since its birth and 1t was surely
an arrangement of His providence that
at time when darkness lowered over
the land, when wars and rumors of wars
were heard, and when the cry for bread
was arising from millions of homes such
a man was placed in the highest execu-
/ tive position to guide the country in the
time OF her peril. But in the hour of
death we are not thinking so much OF
| Mckinley the statesman as Mckinley
the man. He was a great statesman be-
cause he was ffststa good man. =,
1t Is highly Significant of Christ that
He is described as the Lamb in the
midst of the Throne We speak of the
lamb as the symbol of meekness OF en-
durance, but not of rule, yet when we
look into the heart of the figure we see
that there could :, not be more fitting
symbol of truth than that. No man has
ever got into power and ruled men sue
cessfully who did not have the spirit of
the lamb, that, is the sufferer, the vic
tim of the sacrifice. 1t is in the char.
acter of the lamb that Christ IS now in
the midst of the throne and is 4enthroned
in the heart of. the, world. In the char
| aeter Of 1amb-like manhood the man of
service and sacrifice, President Mckinley,
has gone to the throne above and for
ages to come he will be enthrenedein the
heart of this generation. His life has been
a life of sacrificing service for. his de-
voted wife and, family, his state, his coun-
try Hence it iszthat men had strong
faith in eeyery0 movement she made; have
given to him the homage he deserved at
the hands. of his, fellowssfand have loved
him as few men infpublic office have ever
been loved. In his exalted position he
never forgot his early days in the Ohio
village and the boys he used to play with
there. He neYers forgot his young. men
comrades at the, front.in 1861 and was as
willing to associate with them the year of
ms presidency as he was to en-
DANGER his life by carrying food
to them on the firing line for
Which he deservedly received his
first promotion In the army In the midst
of his engrossing duties ais chief executive
he never forgot his fragile wife and On
his busiest day would snatch an hour
to spend with her though he had to make
He never passed child in the street with
out smiling recognition and whenever
he5saw band of children together it was
the necessity of his nature to stop and
speak to them word of cheer It was
while in this act Of waving his hand to
little child in the dense crowd at Buffalo
that the assassin's bullet cid its diaboU
cal work. Mckinley was more peculiarly
the children's president than any of his
predecessors, and in sixty or seventy
years after this there will be men and
women in the,fWerl1 who will saw. 81 re-
member well how President Mckinley
loved the children.''' The secret of this
was his big heart and his Christian char
acter. We feel in death more tangibly
than we do in life that love, after all. is
the strongest power in the world Nc
Kfnley loved men. and men loved him.
Mckiniey's love was of the practical kind
ana was seen IN kind words and kind
deeds wherever these were needed
Whether in the family circle in the cati-
net or In the great mass meeting L cues
tion II any man can remember having
heard him speak an unkind word.
President McKinley's sturdy Christian
character was only the outcome of his
love to God and man. No man had. ever
any occasion to doubt his Christianity
While he never pushed his religion to the
front he never failed when occasion re-
CURED to show thatsh was on the LORDS
side In his journeys over the country
whatever those around him might do he
never neglected the place of worship when
the Sabbath day came and worshiped
devoutly in the Methodist church. He
died as he lived trusting in God
1t is Gods way to work mysteriousIy.
This may be Gods sway to rouse the ma
ton into activity which will find no ces
sation until it has relentlesly driven into
places of security the men and women
who are banded together as a menace TO
the government and the country's high
est veal 1T is Gods way His win
be done.''
REV. C. D. ANDREWS.
Rev. C. D. Andrews at Christ church
yesterday morning, used the presidents
death as basis for a sermon. on "a Cos
pei Remedy for the Restlessness of the
Times He thought that now. when
nation was temporarily arrested in its
hurry and hustle, it was good time for
men to give some thought to the need
of the times, and from the nations bap-
tism of blood take a higher and truer out
look upon life The great lack of the
times, he said, was a lack of equipoise
and balance, mentally, spiritually and
physically
Development was too one-sided All
the emphasis was on the commercial val
lie of life-the money value of time. The
tendencies were all toward hustle. com
motion and worry, and away from calm.
sanity and reflection. The idea was not
merely to supersede the ceremonial ten
dency with some other tendency. but to
supplement- it with other tendencies that
shall conduce to a more equable develop
ment of personal power md oopoo;+,,