The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1905-06-13

Thursday afternoon the Sunday
school workers gathered at Westlawn
cemetery where they offered service
in memory of the late President Nc
Kinley. Mr. Z. o. Excel led the sing
ing, Nearer My God to Thee" which
has been known for years as the presi-
dents favorite. Rev. Clark offered up
the opening prayer DR.. c. E. Man
chester was then introduced TO the
delegates as the pastor of the mar
tyred president at the time of his
death.
DIR. Manchester's address was one of
rare merit and beauty. He spoke as
follows:
Nearly four years ago the silver
cord was loosed, the golden bowl was
broken, the pitcher was broken at the
fountain, the wheel was broken al
the cistern.' Mourners went about
the streets, the nation wept in sor-
row, and the world sympathized.
IF one had come from another
planet, and, upon seeing the general
sadness, had inquired the meaning OF
1t, he might have been answered,
Know ye not that there is a prince
and great man fallen this day In
Israeli
I'VE were mourning the removal
by death of William Mckinley, our
brother, our friend, our foremost citl-
zen, our great and honored Presi-
dent. Fallen in the midst of his use
fulness, in the noontide of his power,
In the ripeness of his manhood, our
souls were bowed within us-our
grief was unutterable.
Tile weary days passed by, and
we saw him return to the city of his
youth to lie in state in the home he
loved, where married life began, and
then we brought him from the church
of his choice and which he had all
ways loved and honored, to beautiful
West Lawn, where beneath grassy
mounds, until the resurrection day,
repose parents, children and kindred.
Here, awaiting the final bestow-
ment of his sacred dust, in the place
which the nation will mark with mau-
soleum and monument, William Nc
Kinley's tomb will be an honored
shrine for generations to come. To
this spot, visitors, actuated by patri-
Otic impulses, will resort: here they
will renew their allegiance to the
cause of libery, and pay their tribune
at the altar of a glorious manhood
Here fathers will bring their children
and will say to them, L can ask from
God for you no greater gift than that
you should be such a man as he.
cleanhanded pure-spirited, loving
God, humanity and country, and
greater in death than in life.'
THE value Of such a possession to
any community and age can not be
properly estimated. Broken-hearted
as we were and are, over his untime
ly removal, we are proud, beyond the
power of words to express, our joy in
having produced him, and our wealth
In being able to retain him among
us, for in that higher form of speech
which is learned at the altar or good
ness, we say that he is not dead.
Cyrus is not dead; Milton, Bun
yam, Wesley, Knox, they are not dead;
they are incarnated and reincarnateo
in the thought and life of men. As
Mckinley said at the tomb of Grant:
Great deeds are immortal, great men
never die so we say today. Paul and
John and Mary and Lydia, and count
less others, are the heritage of the
world for all time to come. McKin-
ley Is ours; we cherish him, and we
defy death or time to separate him
from us. for love never faileth,' hon
esty and goodness know not age nor
flight of time.
But we do well to pause for mo-
ment after the passage of these event
ful years to inquire if the dispassion.
ate judgment, formed at greater dis.
tance from the occasion, has changed
the verdict then given. One of the
leaders of Professionalism, standing by
the casket of Mckinley, in the ro-
tunda of the capitol at Washington.
said: The years draw on when his
name shall be counted among the IL
lustrious of the earth. He shall sum
mon all statesmen and all his coun.
trymen to purer living nobler aims,
sweeter faith and immortal blessed
ness
"An educator of worldwide promi.
nence said, speaking of our three
partNs: These three graves have
been dug in the heart of the American
people, but they will keep the heart
OF the nation strong and pure The
leading fnancier of that day said:
The ordinary tributes paid to the
memory of the great when they pass
from earth utterly fail to satisfy the
mind In an attempted application Of
them to our dead President Said an
eminent churchman Religion is the
stronger in America today for Will
lam McKinley's death A Jewish
rabbi said: Speaking epigrammat-
ically, we might say that Washington
created the Union. Lincoln preserved
the Union, Mckinley expanded tho