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

Elm Park Church.
one of the very largest congregations
which ever assembled in the Elm Park
Methodist Episcopal church gathered
there last night to do honor to the
memory of the martyred chief magis-
trate and to listen to an eloquent dis
course by the pastor Rev. DR.. c. M.
Gifiin.
The latter took as his text. jeremiah.
9:l3: For death is come up into our
windows. and is entered into our
palaces" While he dwelt upon the
pureness of President McKinley's life
he seemed to consider that to be so self
evident as to need no especial pointing
out and dwelt particularly upon the
lessons which the American people
should draw from the terrible deed Of
the assassin whose bullet laid the presi-
dent low.
In beginning the doctor developed
the thought that death is 'the one uni
versal conquerer' who enters the howell
and the palace and whose hand cannot
be stayed He rushes past the
| watches.'' said he. "and in the midst
of the festivities lays his cold hand
upon the country's ruler and chills a
naton with his touch" Continuing he
said:
II was in London one year ago to-
day and I had an opportunity of wit
Messing the sincere grief felt by all
England at the presidents death.
don't care what people may say about
Anglophobia and that sort of thng--1
know that shall always love the Eng
lsh people for the sincere sorrow which
they displayed at President McKinley's
death. 1t was a marvellous exhibition
of sympathy.
PEOPLE ARE SHOCKED.
81 have said that there is great
sameness in death, but everyone will
admit that when it strikes one in place
and powe" the people are shocked more
than when it comes in the ordinary
way. How especially WAS this true when
we heard that Mckinley had been
stricken in the midst of an exposition
of the country's great prosperity. The
prosperity of which he was the prophet
had arrived, and just when he was re-
joicing at what he saw he. was stricken
down.
What is the meaning of all this you
say. We have survived this disaster.
We are as prosperous as ever. This is
true because the many in this country
are sticking to God, and because right
eousness rules. AS long as the majority
in this country sticks to good and
strives ever onward and upward we
shall be able to survive such disasters.
When the great majority go astray,
then there will be revolution and decay.
Some people maintain that the death
of Il president means no more than the
decease of an ordinary man. that peo-
pie are all alike and that sifted down
to bed rock the president is no better
than the ordinary citizen. If this Is
true why is it that the heart of the
nation stopped the other day when the
information was flashed over the wires
that President Roosevelt had been
nearly killed bv trolley car?
Some people think that because the
government gets on all right in the
summer time without congress and
with the president on a vacation that
neither congress nor the president
amounts to much in the long run.
Others cry out for the cutting off Of
all the under classes and the degen-
crates, and still others would throw off
the top. The result of this. according
to my notion, is that there would be
nothing left.
I'VE should be able to declare to the
world that America is not a nest for
the Matching of such theories as these,
leading as they do to deeds of severity
and crime. America must be able to
declare this IL it is to keep it's present
place in the forefront ofthe nations
of the world.
REIGN OF TERROR.
''If should speak of reign of terror
you would let your minds skip back to
the year 1898 in France, but you would
do wrong, because there are black spots
on our own land where red-handed out
RACES are perpetrated and where deeds
of diabolism are planned.
"One way to benefit by remem-
brance of President McKinley's death
Is to make serious inquiry into the
subject of better protection for the oc-
cupant of the white house. True, there
is law which provides for IA success
ion and a law which would have placed
in office. had President Roosevelt been
killed. our secretary of state, who is
not IA man of straw though his name Is
Hay. l am inclined to think that 1t
would be better If our president kept
himself confined to either Oyster Bay
| or Washington, instead of making
| perilous journeys over the country and
| exposing himself to the danger of the
assassin's hand.
zone way to protect the palace is to
| take care that the man who goes in is
proper man. The man who Is presl-
dent of this country should always be
a man among men, because he Is held
| up as am example to the youth of this
| country, because he must, in a way, he
held up to the world as a specimen of
American craftsmanship and sagacity,
and because he is largely maker OF
| sentiment and an exhibition of the ma
| tional spirit.
| 1T behooves every man to look at
the candidate of his party with this
| idea In mind and see If he measures
, up to the proper standard. He should
| honestly survey the convictions on his
own side as well as those ON the other
! say every man, because every real
| man has party. There are a lot Of
mush affairs looking like men who
have no fixed political convictions, but
they don't eonnt,
At the present day no goodness or
excellence of character can prevent the
missile of the anarchist from being