South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-01-07
TO SEEK PROPHECY
IN BIBLE VERSES
HARDING KISSES
Little Significance Seen in
Passages Featuring Past
lnauguratiOns.

WASHINGTON. B. o.. Jan. G.-Af-
fcr chief Justice Edward Douglas
White has asked Warren Gamaliei
Harding out ON tuc platform % front
~ the capital on March II ne viii
promise % preserve. protect and de
feud tho constitution Of the United
states so the best Of his ability and
he presldent-eIect. with his right
hand pointing 90 the zenith. has re-
Piled L viii" Jaues -. MahCr. clerk
of the United States supreme court
81 III step forward with a Bible which
he VIII open at random and Mr.
Harding following immemOral GUS
TOM win plant "a kiss on the open
page.
Mr. N1her. who is gifted with
Keen vision viii carefully note the
~crses on which the kiss was plant
I'd. Some days after the Inaugural
.on me will attire himself I'm his best
iroCk coat and take the Bible 90 the
white house. where he will present
81 a. Mrs Harding ard viii point out
q her the verses brought into the
.iuciight by the escUiatOry ceremony.
remains to Dee seen whether Mrs
Harding VIII lind cause for felicia
tion. or otherwise. in the verses her
husband viii KISS on March 4 ON
similar occasion - years ago an
other DISTINGUISHED first lady Of the
1-Ed"-also from OhiC-expresse
Keen regret over what she declared
90 be- the iuapprOpriatenes Of the
passage OF scripture that had been
kissed by her husband az his inau-
guratiOn.
Found Inappropriate.
4 few days after the inauguration
OF PRIEST Hayes iu 1877 the late j. r.
Mckeuuey. then clerk OF the supreme
court took the Bible that had beer
rsed iu the ceremony 10 the white
house. where he found Mrs Hayes
surTCuTCed Dy "a group OF callers. She
asked him III he knew the verses the
president had kissed and when he
replied in the affirmative she request
ed him to read them aloud 20 tho
COMPANY" He read the three vers-
- OF psalm us which Mr.. Hayes had
kissed. but the one that impressed
her most was the twelfth verse, "a
follows
"They compassed mo about like
bees, they are qucuched az the fire
of thorns for in the name OF the
Lord 1 viii destroy them
lu O. voice that betOkened the
ltecnest disappointment Mrs. Hayes
cried out:
ola. no. that verse il not right in
The presidents case. He would not
destroy anybody even III they com
passed him about like hornets
BeginnirC with the second admin
fstratiou OF Pres't Grant "a record has
been preserved I'm the office of clerk
OF the supreme court showing the
passa yes OF scripture kissed by all OF
he presidents up Co the present
time This record IS as follows:
Grant (-eccud istrdtion) -
Isaiah, second chapter verses 2 and
Hayes-Psalm us. verses II, Il
ard IT,
Garfield Proverbs II. verse L.
Arthur Psalm 81. verses ]. . and
Cleveland tfrst adninistrauon)-
Psalm fl2. verses Co 10.
Harrison Psalm 1-1. verses I to
Cleveland Second administration
Psalm 81. verses . . 20 Is.
vi Tinlev tarst administrations
Second Chronicles. chapter 1. verse
10.
Mckinley second administration
Proverbs 16. verses 90 and Il.
Rcus,vc lt-J1mcs. chapter 7. vers-
IS % and %.
verses o. 10 and Il
Wilson Cfrst administrati0u)-
Psalm 11e. verses % 20 as
Wilson (sccond administration
Psalm SO
Passages lack Prophecy.
Careful reading of the passa yes of
scripture kissed by the presidents
tails 90 reveal any that appear. i'm
he light of past events. 10 have been
prophetic. Garfcld's lips touched a
message that could hardly be con-
sidered as having any bearing on the
r7artyrdom that awaited him a few
months later. Tic was as follows.
THE kings heart is in the hand Of
The Lord. as the rivers of water ne
turueth t. whithersoever he will"
Nor was there any prophecy OF
direful events in the scriptures kissed
y Mckinley az either OF his iuaug-