The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1905-06-13
Held by Sunday School Delegates Thursday After
noOn--.Mr. {. 0. EXCEL Led in Singing
Nearer MY God TO Thee.
ADDRESS MADE BY REV, DR., MANCHESTER
He Was Pastor of the M. {. Church in Canton
During the Life Of the Marlyred Pres
acknowledgement Address.

| Union. His supremely religious life
made of him an ideal President of the
nation on q plane with Washington
and Lincoln
The greatest of living diplomats
said to the congress OF the United
States: The moral value to a nation
of renown such as Lincoln and Nc.
Kinley's is beyond all computation
No loftier ideal can be held up to the
emulation of ingenious youth
These are but samples OF eulogies
pronounced by men of all shades of
religious faith and political belief
when our sorrow was but fresh upon
us. | think there may have been n
conviction, or at least fear, among
conservative thinkers, that in the ex-
citement of mind necessarily preva-
| lent at that moment, eXtravaganr
speech had been employed, and that
time would reduce our dead President
TO the ranks of ordinary mortals.
I'VE, however, wrote his virtues
and deeds side by side upon the scroll
of honor with the conviction that his
fame was secure for all time to come
We are convinced that we were not
mistaken. Since that moment not one
iota of the glory which we believed
to be his has been obscured by pass.
ing years. No leaf has been plucked
from the wreath with which he was
crowned. There have been no after
death discoveries to dim the white
light that shone about him. The sense
OF loss is scarcely dulled, even vet
but we are proud to have had him
among us and we will keep him for
| in
thing we can see clearly in the un-
folding OF these recent years; he left
| a loftier ideal for American politics
and American citizenship. He wrote
| the word Country with large c.
His life is fruitful study. 1t is re-
| plete with pleasant surprises. He
was fortunate in everything, in his
birth, in his life, in his death. He
was born well. We pause for a mo.
ment to speak of the Cody mother
whose memory the world cherishes.
A characteristic of Mother Mckinley
was her unvarying cheerfulness. When
her pastor suggested 10 her once that
the way must be growing brighter as
she advanced toward her Heavenly
nome, she replied that it had been
bright all the way. And yet there had
been many and sore bereavements.
She trod for weary years the path Of
widowhood. She had laid away her
| loved ones one after another and,
| though it must be said that
The messy marbles rest,
On the lips that she had pressed
In their bloom,
her loving cheer was never abated.
1t was as If sunlight from the throne
of God played upon her soul and kept
1t warm and bright That was the
sublime secret of her daily existence.
| She might have said to sordid
grasping world, in the words of her
Master: 81 have food to eat which ye
know not Of" Faith that God does
all things well, that he makes no mis-.
takes was the creed of her Christian
| life, for she was a Christian, indeed.
Undemonstrative and unobtrusive she
was well known as one of the Discip,
| les OF Christ. Until the infrmities
OF increasing years made ii impossible.
she frequented the prayer service and
when she could no longer do that,
kept her place in the morning SER
vice on the Lords day where her
strong but gentle face was an inspi.
ration to pastor and worshipper. The
| end crowned the work. She came
down to her grave like the well-ripen.
ed grain, ready for the harvest The
early home of William Mckinley was
neither among the rich nor among
the poor. 1t was home in which
great sturdiness of character was
manifest, where industry abounded
1t was typical American home, and
such are the hope of the nation.
HE lived well. He died well. The
accident of birth, in itself, cannot pro-
duce greatness, but II added to a
good birth there is good life, and If
one dies well, his fame is secure.
"The memory of his life has been a
constant inspiration to better living
to religious being in that realm of
Christian life where spirituality is
understood to have reference, not so
much to passing tides of emotion, as
to the great law or righteousness to
which every true man seeks to adjust
himself-an intelligent conformity to
the things that are right, lovely and
of good report.
"One of his eulogists said of him
He walked in perfect and noble self
control and 1t was true. He was not
swayed by every passing breeze of
public thought and sentiment, but aft
er having reached a conclusion, which
was only done after careful study of
the entire situation, he was satisfied
and immovable. Completeness of
thought. rare and admirable quail
ity which sees statement in its log.
ical sequence, an absence of crudity,
was characteristic of him.
"His conscientiousness was superb.
No clamor of the public press, no Wit
operation on the part OF those who op-
posed, could swerve him for an in.
stant from the plain beaten track of