The Minneapolis journal., 1902-01-27
HIS WORK RECALLED
Public Memorial Services for the
Late VIM. Mckinley
AT THE METROPOLITAN THEATER
Addresses by Rev. DIR. j. S. Mont
EOmery and COmmander-in
Chief Torrance.

Public memorial services for the ma
tons third martyred president, the late
William Mckinley, were held yesterday at
the Metropolitan theater Minneapolis, and
at the Peoples church, st. Paul. Both
meetings were we'll attended and at both
the patriotic temper Of the audience was
clearly shown in the close attention paid
to the speakers. ..-
William Henry Eustis, chairman of the
Minnesota auxiliary to the National Me-
mortal association. presided over the
Minneapolis meeting, and addresses were
made by Rev. Dr.. J. S. Montgomery, pas
tor of Wesley NJ E. church, and by Ell
Torrance, comma nder- in chief OF the u.
A. r. Frank Nye, who was to have de-
livered an address, was detained at his
home by illness, and Commander Torrance
filled his place on the program
At the st. Paul meeting, Governor 5. 4.
Van SAINT presided, and speeches We're
made by H. F. Stevens and Rev. DR.. D: l..
RAIDER, pastor of the First Methodist
church. Unfortunately the Peoples
church, in which the st. Paul meeting was
held, was not we'll heated, and the audi
ence shivered throughout the program.
In opening the Minneapolis meeting,
Chairman Eustis eulogized the dead presi-
dent briefly, and announced that the meet
ing had been called for double purpose:
First to afford the people Of the city an
opportunity to pay their respects publicly
to the memory OF the departed executive,
and, secondly, to aid the Memorial asso-
ciation A collection was taken up near
the close of the meeting for this last pur-
pose, the amount raised being about S1oo.
Rev. ]. S. Montgomery took as his sub
ject ''The Inspiration Of Noble Lie.
In part he said: 81.
The aroma of William Mckinley's life was
courtesy, but fools called it compromise. The
Of ri he heaven
grace. His was the poetry OF conduct. lie
never struck with rod nor abused with an
unkinG word. Amid the countless Vlclssltudes
of public life, William Mckinley preserved a
pure and an exalted integrity, dauntless
virtue, a supreme devotion to truth, and all
these were leavened with simplicity that at
cnce drew to him the esteem of the greatest
statesmen and the love Of little children. His
was rare nature In it were joined the
strength Of a giant and the delcacy or child
hood. He was one and the same man whether
he moved in the company OF the great or
joined in the play of the nursery. His was
the strength of great repose. When he stopped
it was not the weak passivity OF a reed by
the wayside. 1t was not the yielding OF an
invertebrate, but the submission of splen-
did will. He had the power to kneel; he de-
clared his right to stand. He stood in the
worlds eye.
Judge Torrance referred to the martyred
president as the friend of little children
and Of womanhood, and spoke Of the love
he bore for the men who had fought with
him in the civil war against the south;
and Of his admiration for the men who
had fought against him in that struggle.
No other man, the commander thought,
had done more to bring about good feel
ing between the survivors of the two
armies. I;
The Masonic quartet sang Lead, Kind
ly Light and 1.-THE Vacant Chair" and
Mrs L. NJ. Park contributed two solos.
s"The Voices Of the Angels" and THE
Man OF Gallilee." .....