St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-09-18

growth of anarchy and disorder in the
general community. But men who
though perhaps not on the great stage
of the worlds tumultuous lite, will even
exert, because of the possibility of man
hood which they present to the world,
a most potent and salutatory influence
over the multiform and complicated
movements of national life. Men that
shall generate, nurture, strengthen and
sustain a nations industry and the
purest morals. Men who shall have
ideas, lofty, grand, Godike, that like the
springs from the mountain summit, shall
roll down and give their characters and
their impulse to the lowest current that
flows at its base.
All that remains to us of our beloved
President will soon be laid away in the
tomb. We believe, however, that his
practical intellect, his experienced, en-
riched and noble heart was not extin-
guished by the assassin's bullet.
The praise of men may be lost some
where and fade into eternal silence, but
the work he has accomplished and the
bene6cent results of the life, brought to
what seems to us an untimely end, shall
never lose their power. Our dutyis, how
ever, unchanged. The flag of our country
is still ours to maintain and unfold, and
we cannot better do our duty. We can
not better honor the man whose death
has brought grief to the nation. We can
not do better toward the purifying of
the national life of those elements which
make it possible for such a murderous
element to survive in this land than by
cultivating that dignity, that nobility,
that holiness Of heart and life that shall
make our example radiate farther than
even we can see or know, even to the
outermost ism of social life, and pene.
trate to the lowest depths OF human
degradation.
REV. DIR. FAIRBANKS ADDRESS.
Good bye. 1t is Gods way, His will
be done"
The trustful spirit of our third martyr
these last words of mis- We admire them,
we prize them for the soul of Christian
faith and resignation which they breathe.
Never did we love our President more than
when, in the solemn hour of his passing,
he waved back these words for a memo
rial to us, Goods way and Gods will"
Thankful are we that his providence
gave us this man, whose lifelong aim
was to do the will of God, whose dying
words reflected as a mirror, the centre.
most thought of his heart. Goods
way and Gods will"-what does that
mean! What are we to understand bv
Gods will in this tragic event? Are we
to say it was his will that our President,
at the climax of his ripe wisdom and
experienced leadership should be treach-
erously shot? do not so interpret it.
Assassination is no part of the real will
of God. His will is that men do right
not wrong; that they live kindly and
happily together, not suspiciously,
jealousy, spitefully. Gods will is that
good order, good society, good feeling
and good will prevail everywhere and
thus his will be done on earth as it is in
heaven, where there are no assassina-
tions, no discords, no jealousies, no dis
contents. That foul deed at Buffalo was
OF the will OF man, not OF God. 1t was
the perverse will of man that conceived
and did it, and therein the will OF man
struck raspngly and damnably across
the will of God. Does that mean that
God is defeated? No, God is not Knocked.
1t was his will that men be gifted with
this divine and perilous capahility to act
their own will, and it is no surprise to
him that many of them turn it daringly
against his. Indeed, he has provided in
advance for that very event. The world
and all in it shows that. The serpent in
Eden introduced anarchy, lawlessness,
but this was no surprise, it was simply
the first act in the great drama of the
Son OF God on earth. There's Just one
key to the course of thingsn this world
viz: out of apparent defeat the Supreme
Ruler is patiently and invariably bring
ing his high will to pass. The wicked
will of man does as it will-works out
its bad deed; God takes it up, forces it
aside, turns it around, so that from an
other angle it works his will Just the
opposite from what man intended. Judas
had his way, gave his smooth kiss, but
nothing worked as intended. God turned
that treachery into the current that
carried Jesus up where he willed to lay
down his life that he might take it again
for our sakes. Czolgosz had his way, gave
the President his stealthy left hand
accomplished his infamous will. Instant
God took up that act of treachery,
caused it to flow like swift electric
current through fifty million intelligent,
indignant, American hearts. binding them
into in one solemn determination to
maintain order, law, government, to
stamp anarchism out. root and branch,
in the name of the Lord God of Hosts, in
the light of the great white throne.
ut is Gods way; his will be DONE"
Gods way is to reverse the perverse will
OF man, and make it work his holy will
Hannah is hanged on his own gallows.
The spot where Wiclit's Bible was burned
is the great repository of English Bibles.
The Sale 'Rivole, nesting place of anar-
chists in Paris, is hallowed for a McAl
mission. So, these are parts of his ways;
he turns a Canaanite fortress into Mt.
Zion that he loves; he makes good men
out of bad ones. He has set himself to
reverse the mighty current of mans
richest will and make this earth seat
of Righteousness, of government, of
order, of peace and good will. And his
will, will be done. "Surely the wrath of
man shall praise thee, o God, and the
surplus of wrath shalt thou grit upon
thyself.
at is Gods way; His will be done" 1t
is Gods way that law shall have it's course
whatever happens. II mans bad will
break across his will there will be trouble.
The innocent may suffer at first even
more than the guilty, but so divine and
holy and bene6cient is law in it's far
range, that its execution cannot be