The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-09-20

By their fruits ye shall know them" A friend remarked to me on yesterday: Mir. McKiniey's life and death gave a new adornE.ent to Christianity" l an- swered and emphasize that answer this afternoon, Not so, Chrts..anity adorned and made beautiful the character of our
 What are the evidences that Mir. Me Kinley was Christian man? He was consistent and devoted member of the Methodist Ch--ch. and was regular at tendant and communicant of that church. l saw him for the first and only time before a Methodist Conference, and was impressed with his great intellect, and with his reverence and faith.
 Presidents Private Life.
 ,dms Let us. us lOSk H,I next tC his private and who knew him best? When the funeral train reached Canton. Ohio, on yester day his friends and neighbors were there less body. Sobs and tears were every- where heard and seen. Was there mourning for fallen President merely? a friend whose life had been consistent and beautiful. One old man on crutches stood over his bier and exclaimed, T GSfhs and have 'h known own hi him % for these '' many years and I have never seer anything in that life of which to be ashamed"
 Another evidence of his greatness and Christian heart was his love for little children. Like his Master, his heart went out toward them. and he ever gave them a kindly word and loving smile. thinking of his eWr two little ones at Was this faith and consistency mani fest in his public and political life? not nIs ss S you that at up his last earthly possession to pre-. | serve his name from the least taint Of dishonor. and that in that trying hour he acquitted himself as noble Chris
 
 Tn his political life his character re- | mained unblemish and If one word was amid all his political campaigns, never heard of it.
 | As President he. revered the Sabbath ss Mora %as allowed if on that day and he was always found in his place in the sanctuary amid the worshipers of t1%chnr storS 0i perpeaimg auesticn of | State was before the President and his advisers. No one could suggest a solu- | tion of the momentous problem. The President was missed from his place. and l enquiry was made concerning him. Where was he? Turning the knob of an adjoin- ing door this gentleman found the Almighty .iod, and craving Divine light and guidance.
 How did he die? All human philoso- phies fail us at the. open grave. and 1.-the the | the details of the Presidents death you are all familiar. Tho blow came with awful audiences and yet he was not | afraid. | He Died a Christian. | A noted infidel said a few years ago.
 Tt is an awful thing to die" Was there | any thing awful in Mir McKinley's death aside from the cruel shot which struck l him down? No, beloved. The sweet Ie- sick room has swept our country from | sea to sea, and the halo of light from
 that dying life shines all over the isnd that our President loved so well God g | will he done" he murmured to his devotel | wife as he gently stroked her hands. He
 grew weaker. and Deaths hold btcalne
 stronger-What will he say2 Will he
 the highest honor of great nation? on the very confines of that eternity. where
 each of us must stand, he looK ed with
 victory to the future and clied out,
 Nearer My God to Thee, Nearer to
 Even though 1t be a cross that raiseth me
 Still all my song shall be Thee, | Nearer my God to Thee, nearer b Thee"
 What an argument Is such life and death against infidelity?
 In this sublime hour I envy not the
 infdei his dark creed. I envy not him
 land of rest where loved ones are envy
 not the man who denies the Divinity of
 our Lord and Saviour. and who
 In conclusion we may well ask. We're
 our prayers for the recovery of our Prtsi- | dent unavailing? Not so. We have not
 lost him, and his life will ever be with
 us. In his death our people are drawn
 nearer together, and 1t may be possible
 to bury in that grave at Westlaw1 ceme-
 tery the last spark of sectional ha.e and predudjice. More than this. sixty million
 people turn their eyes toward that lonely 1 grave in Ohio, and sixty million hearts l are drawn to the God whom he served, | and toward the heaven where his im-
 mortal spirit rests. May we die The death of the righteous, and may our last | end be like his"
 The audience stood and sang Nearer, | My God, to, Thee" and the exercises were closed with a simple benediction by Rev. NJ. H. Holt pastor of the Clay | ton Street Methodist Church.