The Weekly Tallahasseean., 1901-09-20


at the me5norial service last Sunday,
was fittinsy rendered by the choir.
The chief address of the occasion was
then delivtred by Rev. w. E. H. Ma
bry, pastof of the Methodist Church.
He said:
We med on this occasion to COM
memoratethe death of one who was so
lately tha head of this nation; one
whom wea all looked to as our head
and chief magistrate, and one upon
whom the eyes of the whole world
were fixed; one VINO was a Christian
man in etery sense of the word, and
who even in his youth gave evidence
of that character for which he was
noted in otter years. Whose youth was
spent in She endeaVor to do his duty
and follow cheerfully in the line of that
duty.
We SEP him patiently pursuing
his way Hith purpose fixed as if, even
then, he fad been. called by the Lord
to the work for which he was after
wards destined. We see him in the
noble ch3racter of his Christian faith,
fighting the battle of youth as he af-
terwardss fought in battles side by
side witbt his brother soldiers; and as
he fought the battle of life. We do
not spea4 of him in his political char
acter, fOi while some of us may differ
from hirh, we all think of him as
man wIb had endeared himself to
eyeryone3 of us, whatever our political
opinionss ant SO he fought the battle
of life sSie by side with us.
We shbok hands with him and we're
brethren! and he found a warm place
in the i2arts of the South. AS long
as Southern men and women will
cherish fhivalry, SO long will Presi-
dent Mckinley be remembered and
cherishea by the men and women of
the South.
Such seligion as he received bowed
the knef to the universe. Men that
are abl3 to make just discrimina-
ton appreciated the strength of his
cnaract@ and the force of his Christ
ian life.s Personality is a strong force
felt in his land and by all nations of
the world; his was a strong personal
| ity. Itiwent beyond the province of
politicians. He had a force of charac-
ter that was his strength. He had ten
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was sht twn to his wife.
| He hid no children to mourn him,
yet gfeat nation mOurns him as the
father Sf a great family His devotion
to his kife characterized him through
| life When he was on his Western
journeX and his wife was passing
through the struggle which might take
her from him, he waited with tender
ness AID patience the news of her
daily apnditiOn, until she came from
under Che shadow of. death
So she, when the hand of the as
sassin thad prOStrated Mr.. Mckinley,
waitedain patience and tenderness for
each AIessage from him who was
stricken. We thus paint the Christian
uualit6s of both which the nation and
the w4rld admire.
His WAS high intellect, and like the
everlatting mountains, whose rugged
Summkts and stOrm-beaten sides pre-
sent *hem selves to the eIements, but
are yk nlled with the vines and flow
ers which twine about them and grow
upon them, so was his strong charac-
ter tSined about by the vines anC
fiOweB of his tender Christian char
! acter.f We reverence greatness and
strenath, and admire power. He Is
mOuraed as no other public man has
: been SnOurned in the years gone by.
Wefregret the hideOus crime that tht
, pnemf of mankind has brought upoI
7 him Ind laid him low. He was al
: humEae believer in the faith that some
/ peOpB say belongs to women anC
/ childSen. AS he had lived, so he died
and Is the end approached he simply
: lookeh to his wife and said: "GOOd-by
, Thy will be DONE"
WS are here to-day in sadness ant
2 in gSOom. Yet glad that such words
fell trom his lips and such strength
2 sustained him. May God help US tt
J. be ike our chieftain, and when we ar
!. caIIeA to go may the light fall upOI
= us AID lead us to the everlasting rest
$ TIE choir then rendered Thy Viii
!. Be tOone,'' after which AJev. S. M
4 Pro3ence, pastor of the Daptis
Chufch, offered prayer, all standing
4 A most touching appeal to the dlVln
), Tenderness and to the Father OF all Il
= guidA and go with us through life, ant
: the khoir closed with the well-knowl
d hyn!a, "God Be with You Till We Nee
? Again" Then the benediction wa
: proEOunced.
TIE hall was crowded, there belni
abo3t five hundred present. Ever.
business house in town closed to al
tend the services.
AZ the same hour the cOlOred peopl
wefI holding a memorial service d
the opera house