Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-19
NJ 'KINLEYS HOME LIFE
THEME OF DR.. LOCKE
Minister Pays Tribute to the Late
Presidents Home Love and
Religious Character

DR.. Charles Edward Locke, at the
First Methodist Episcopal church, last
evening, delivered the second section
of sermon on "A Recent Pilgrimage
to the Home and Tomb of William
Mckinley" Dr. Locke spoke last even
ing of Mckinley as "a statesman,
churchman and home man." Nearer,
My God, to Thee" and Lead, Kindly
Light" and other songs which were
favorites of the lamented president
were sung. The text was, "a devout
man and one that feared God with all
his house." from Acts. 1912.
I'm the magnificent memorial win
dows in McKinley's home church the
martyred president" said DIR. Locke, lis
compared to the brave centurion, Cor
nelius," who lived in Caesarea in the
days when 1t was revealed to Peter
that the Gospel of Jesus Christ was
for the Gentiles as we'll as for the
Jews.
when Mckinley came to be presi-
dent he showed how clear was his
knowledge of the deep and abiding
principles of profound craftsmanship
He saw and outlined the policy which
must be pursued with regard to trusts
and great corporations, as we'll as of
reciprocal relationships with foreign
nations. His honored successor in
carrying out the Mckinley ideas has
made for himself phenomenal place
in American statecrapt. Mr.. Cortelyou,
who was McKinley's private secretary
during all of his term in the White
House, says:
The theory that Mr.. Mckinley sub
ordinated his judgment to the will of
Senator Hanna or of anybody else Is
a delusion. He was always the master.
He had the gentle persistency of Lin
coin I was with him night and day.
1anf ha q
MASTER
Mckinley was a home maker, a
home lover, q home defender. AS son,
brother, husband and father, he was
dutiful, affectionate and gallant. He
was the product of happy home, and
his knightly sword was always un-
sheathed in defense of the fireside and
all its divine associations. And when
at his inauguration he stopped and
kissed his proud and happy mother, he
only gave back to her the token OF
knighthood which she had first given
to him. A mothers kiss! Oh, holy
accolade!
I'm his religious life William Nc
Kinley was an exemplary Christian
gentleman. He reyerenced the Sapoath'
he loved to pray and was often at
throne Of grace, he read and studied
the Bible and taught and lived its
beautiful precepts. He was a man OF
unbounded faith in Christ and pos
sessed a child-like confidence in the
Father of Nations. In the trying
ordeals of public life the path was
we'll beaten between his needy heart
and the throne of the infinite.
I'm the death of William Mckinley
the pulses of a new heroism are throb-
bing in the hearts of our countrymen
This was expressed by man IN the
suburbs of Buffalo, who said, William
Mckinley died more like Jesus Christ
than any man in history and he there
upon, for the first time, forsook his
unbeiief and adopted the faith of NC
Kinley. -
"William Mckinley will live forever
in the love and memory of this ma
ton. The story of his life Of achieve
ment, of his tragic death and of raptur-
GUS ascension will be immortalized In
song and statue and sermon, but those
memorials will be the most enduring
which consist Of human lives emulating
and Initiating the superb Christian
character of our martyred hero.
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