Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-09-16

one. so to live that we NAV not fail
OF that sustaining arm when we cross
deaths dark river.
Rev. Il. p. Hope of the Winthrop
street Baptist church, spoke briefly of
the great calamity which has come to
the people in the events of the past
few days. The pulpit was draped in
the national colors and at one side was
4 large portrait of the late President
Rev. FIR. Doherty of St. Mary's
church. devoted the larger part of the
service 10 the recent death of the
President at the hands of AN assassin.
He paid n glowing tribute to Mr.. Nc
kinley as man and statesman.
Special prayers were offered in behalf
of the departed and that his successor
might prove as worthy the great posi-
ton to which he had succeeded as has
Mr.. Mckinley
Rev. Norman Mckinnon of the Con-
gregational church. delivered ser
mon on the general subject. Men who
have caused the right to triumph"
His text was. Know We not that there
is prince and Il great man fallen this
day. The Lord shall reward the doer
of evil according to his wickedness. y
The speaker referred 10 the assassina-
ton of Lincoln as being incited by sec
tional hatred. of Garfield. by disap-
pointed ambition. but that Of McKin-
ley by an organized band of assassins.
He said that five rulers of great ma
tons of the civilized world had fallen
during the past four years, victims of
the plots of this society: Carnot, Pres
ident of France: Canovas, prime min
ister of Spain; Elizabeth. Empress of
Austria; Humbert. King of Italy: and
William Mckinley, President of the
United States. He was emphatic in his
remark that anarchy will never cure
anarchy and for the mob to lynch the
assassin would be to adopt the method
of the murderer himself" Ten thou
sand battles" he said. and ten thou
sand martyrs are the price of our
democracy" He paid a tribute TO the
nobility of the character of our de-
parted President, making clear that ne
died as he had lived. a revelation OF
Christian fortitude, unselfish courage,
self-control and u forgiving spirit en-
bodying those principles uttered by
himself in his mastery speech on the
Exposition grounds the day previous
to his assassination. In closing ne
said: Not the men who have brought
down other lives with the sword but
the men who have laid down their own
lives through an unresiSting faith III
the triumph of right through moral
the advance of man. The world lives
upon the lives of love that are given
for it's redemption and perfection. SUI
fering rightly endured is ministry 10
mankind. This common sorrow is
drawing all men together"
At the Free Baptist church. in an
tjcipat alton of the coming union service,
the pastor made no extended reference
to the recent death of the President
But the sad affair was earnestly re-
membered in prayer.
Miss Matilda w. Atkinson referred
briefly to the common sorrow OF our
people in her sermon at the Water
Street Mission.
The services at tiN
church were in keeping with the
solemnity of the occasion. The pas
tor. the Rev. Charles A. Hayden. de-
livered a discourse upon the lessons
that we as a people should draw from
the calamity that has befallen the ma
tion He spoke at length of the noble
li,a ,nd deeds of our late President
The music was appropriate to the oc-
casion.
The Life and Character of William NC
kinney. Third Martyred President of tn'
United states. was made the theme OF the
services in the m Thn altar raj raj
was decorated with the national nag
covering the communion table upon VIM
rested a large portrait OF the iale fresi
dent framed in black. me enns tha t;rs
Psntn, "Blessed is the man, etc: Tht
favorite hymns of Mother Mckinney
and III her son were sung Inc neN. II
+ 'I nTnnack delivered an appropriate aht
ai,n,,ant discourse from the text. by
| II he heing dead yet speaketn. lie
hreWs MA. He spoke in part as follows
For the third time in less than nan i, .
| cantIrv we are assembled to honor IN
n ,nan,nrv of a murdered President. Lin
coin fell at the close of a mlghtS Strus
| ole IN which the passions OF men nau pcei
deeply stirred: Ga ,,n,, hrother had beeI
.inle a., TO brother. and when anSc
had been Ws hn ns fa san Mhe,
| from tne santed prosperity Is everywhere
un f,sr ibe Nation had come out Of for
With mg i9ryh ahe sc Shs'
| the tatesmau were looking forwart
anu t F',,nre with courage. hope and JOY
The Chief tns ali hon aHps
virtues ia d revered at home: the soldier
abroaa an nf the brave; the citizen love-
me me, iuon rected: the son and husband. tn
anu of the chivalrous knlgh
| representalN ,vme In such a day sucl
of "ye oinen to his death in such way
he .gs the 'A"sss
| Plymouth s;ostic3l independence, tn
anS Of are
possible cha ,,ho have given to Ameri
Scotch-ir,sn the names of Patrick Henry