The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-09-15

hurled at the head of our nation. Nc
Kinley was too good man to meet
the fate he did. He never earned
grudge and yet he fell a victim. He
was kind and tender in all his relations
with men and was one of the best and
truest friends of the common people
who ever sat in the presidential chair.
If 1t had been q Caesar stricken by
Brutus we might have said tits we'll.
but that friend of the people should
die like he did is one of the greatest
outrages of any age.
"The assassination of Mckinley
should teach us to increase our respect
for the presidents position. President
Roosevelt likes to take jaunts sur
rounded by secret service detectives. I
would rather surround him with in
creased reverence for his Office There
has been too much leveling preached
from the pulpit and from the platform
of this country. We have been too
ready to proclaim unreasonable and
premature socialism before the world
is ready for such theories.
I'VE cannot stay the assassn's hand
by multiplying statutes. The con-
science of the people must be aroused
lead to get bread must be rebuked
The circulation of these theories Of
anarchism and socialism must end.
When President Carnot was assassin
ated the assassin pulled his dagger out
of a newspaper 1t has always seemed
to me that that act is illustrative OF
the fact that acts of anarchy are often
inspired by certain part of the press.
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be printed and spread broadcast we
must expect bad results. If we SOW
the wind we shall reap the whirlwind.
I'm closing ! would say that Presl-
dent Mckinley grows as time goes on.
He is greater to me today than he was
Il year ago. He was the believer in
policy, but he was not politician. He
was an honest man-not genius, but
an honest man."
Green Ridge Baptist Church.
The evening service at the Green
Ridge Baptist church was commemor-
ative of the death of President Nc
| i\inley. The pastor. Rev. Henry Ster-
ling Potter, took for Il text Prov. X:7,
"The memory of the just is blessed:
but the name of the wicked shall rot"
After contrasting the increasing lustrc
of the names of Lincoln, Garfield and
Mckinley with the growing pity and
contempt of the names of their assas-
sins, Mr.. Potter said, in part:
Such character needs no oratori-
cal flOu-ishes to impress it's strength
and beauty upon his genera tion. AS
tonight we make our first annual pill
grimage to the sepulchre and bow in
the presence Of the sacred dust,
voice seems to say. the wages of sin
is DEATH but the gift of God is eternal
life. The assassination was Gods dam
ger signal. red in the blod of the ma
TONS grief.
"Anarchy shot not William Mckinley
but the president. 1t was but breaking
out of a little tongue of fire that tells
US that the fires of hell are slumber-
ing under our body polite. We boast
of our enlightened century, but COM
mencing with Car Paul of Russia and
ending with President Mckinley, over
fifty times in hundred years has
the assassin's hand struck the deadly
blow. Anarchy is the offspring of ir-
religion and infidelity. Sabbath desc
Grafton end transgressing Gods laws
is bound to breed anarchy. which means
destruction of all that is good.
when religion is deemed old foggy-
ish' and the ten commandments out
lawed, we can sing the nations re-
QUEEN. 1t was irreigion and anarchy
that killed him, but he lives. immortal
in this world and the world to come,
because of his contact with the Christ
Of God. He was a great statesman,
because he was great man, he was
a great man. because he was a great
Christian. The secret of his strong life
was his simple faith. What we ad-
lnired and loved in him was the natural
fruitage of his true religious life. His
courageous and generous stasemanship,
his devotion to his people. mis- abhor-
ence of the spirit of revenge, his beau
tful home life, his tenderness to his
parents and invalid wife. We're learned
in the school of the Nazarene.
when the assassins pistol laid him
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