The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-19
FATHER HAYDEN's ADDRESS.
Invocation and Remarks by Pastor of
Church of Assumption.

Father F. NJ. Hayden. pastor of the
the following invocation:
Almighty and everlasting God, Who
hast dominion over the living and the
dead, we acknowledge Thee to be our
are the work of ThS hands As we bow
with resiena ton sorroWfne heads and
death Of the respected president Of our
nation, we pray that You will grant con-
ISOLATION and comfort in her bereavement
to her who was the faithful and devoted
companion of his Joys and sorrows Grant
to our legislators and all our people the
strength and the will to stamp every law
lessness from out the land Bless. Lord
city, that all our people may live in uni
ty harmony and Christian peace, falun-
full to Thy divine will in their private and
public life All Of which we humbly be-
Christ. Amen
After the pronunciation of the invoca-
ton Rather Hayden delivered the follow
'7During the brief life time of this spa
cfous Auditorium thousands of human
voices have made its walls resound with
merriment and good cheer, as either the
notes OF joyous music or the emphatic
pronOuncement of the political orator hap
pened to evoke them. Today the scene Is
are pouring in from all over our beautiful
city and surrounding country are here IN
enan function. The eyes of the seventy-six
million people of our great republic all
turn toward Canton today. This broad
land is drenched, so to speak, with the
tears of her grief-strieken people, and
l.
civilized world is painfully conscious of
the reason-because great and good
snatched from amongst US. He who. as
a man and as a president, held a. warm
place in the hearts Of the American peo-
This mighty gathering. today is not
any creed or color It is the voice, the
doleful and unanimous voice of the cap
Ital city of Kansas sounding out in har-
mony with the whole United States her
sorrewful tones because the president is
las head of the greatest nation in the
world; all even those who may have been
tnat he conscientiously performed his ev-
cry duty It was his desire to be the pres
justice to all. but if his life shone brightly
before the world ruler it was
tic relations that he gained the affections
of all who ever knew him.
AT all times, whether in peace or in
the hour Of his country's peril, he was the
model American citizen. and when ele.
waited e the highest position within the
simplicity. OF character, his easiness Of ac-
at the White House
1T was this very characteristic that
pie. and had he possessed less of it he
would likely be today our living presi-
His devotion to his wife has been the
theme of many a pen and many tongue,
ma oh TINS Is sup5ef5 q SO sacred c1araet9r
whole American people are a unit today
IN their gr1eI with the bereaVed WIDOW
though his every word was noted and
sent over the wires for the past two
weeks. no word of resentment or revenge
is known to have escaped his lips, and he
die. as he lived. a noble character and a
Christian gentleman
His memory will be forever associated
with his martyred prede cessors, Lincoln |
and Garfield, and his awful death serves |
to intensity the peoples admiration for |
his greatness and to inspire greater de- |
votion to his memory
We viii not pollute the sanctity of the |
Occa sion by words of condemnation of the |
loathSome creature who did the terrible |
deed He is in the hands of the law, and |
there we shall leave him
legislators and in our federal congress to /
restrain and stamp out anarchy in its |
very incipiency. and to bride this wild |
license which, under the guise of freedom
Of speech. has been stalking throughout /
the land dealing death and destruction /
and untold grief along its CHASTITY path.
Freed from such vile atmosphere. may
our great young republic grow in prosper
ty and happiness and be a model unto all
The nations of the world until time shall
he no n1Ore.,'