The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-20

the last line had died away, Rev. o. 3,
Milligan, pastor of the First Presby-
terian Church, in which President and
Mrs. Mckinley were married thirty
years ago, offered a fervent prayer.
Every head in the church bent in sol
emn reverence as the invocation went
up.
DR. John A. Hall, pastor of Trinity
Lutheran Church, then read from the
Bible the beautiful nineteenth Psalm
and Rev. E. p. Herbuck read verses
41-5S of the Fifteenth Chapter of First
Corinthians. With great feeling he read
the inspiring words. telling of the mys-
terry that all would not sleep but all
would be changed
The quartette then sang Cardinal
Newman's grand hymn, the beautiful
words floating through all the church.
DR.. c. E. Manchester then delivered
an address which lasted twenty-four
minutes on the life of the late Presi-
dent and the lessons taught by his
noble character and death. DR.. Man.
chester said, in part:
DIR. Manchester's Address.
my Friends and Countrymen, with
what Language shall l attempt to give
expression to the deep horror of our
souls as I speak of the cause of his
death? When we consider the magni-
tude of the crime that has plunged
the country and the world into unutter-
able grief we are not surprised that
one nationality after another has hast
ened to repudiate the dreadful act.
This gentle spirit, who hated no one,
to whom every man was a brother,
was suddenly smitten by the cruel
hand of an assassin, and that. toe,
in fha Of aYtanhinU
kind and generous greeting to one who
approached him under the sacred guise
of friendship.
could tn assailant have realized how
awful the act he was about to perform,
how utterly heartless the deed, me-
thinks he would have stayed his hand
at the very threshold of 1t. In all the
coming years men will seek In vain to
fathom the enormity of that crime
"Had this man who fell been des-
pot. a tyrant. an oppressor, an insane
frenzy to rid the world of him might
have sought excuse, but 1t was the
peoples friend who fell when William
Mckinley received the fatal wound.
Himself a son of toll, his sympathies
were with the toiler. No one who has
seen the matchless grace and perfected
ease with which ne greeted such, can
ever doubht that his heart was In his
open hand. Every heart throb was for
his countrymen. That his life should
be sacrificed at such a time, just when
there was abundant peace, when all
the Americas were rejoicing together.
is one of the inscrutable mysteries of
Providence Like many others, il must
be left for future revelations TO ex-
plain.
I'm the midst of our sorrow, we have
much to console us. He lived to see his
nation greater than ever before. All
sectional lines are blotted out. There
is no South, no North no East. no
West. Washington saw the beginning
of our national life. Lincoln passed.
through the night of our history and
saw the dawn. Mckinley beheld his
country in the splendor of its noon.
fame With Paul, he could say, and
with equal truthfulness, 1 am now
ready to be offered
"The work assigned him had been
well done. The nation was at peace
We had fairly entered upon an era
of unparalleled prosperity. Our reve-
nues were generous. Our standing
among the nations was secure. Our
President was safely enshrined I'm the
affections OF united people. II was
not al him that the fatal shot was
fred, but at the very life Of the gov
ernment. His Offering was vicarous. Z
was blood poured upon the altar of hui
man liberty"
Bishop /. W. Joyce Of Minneapolis
CONTINUED on Sixth Pag