Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1901 — In Memoriam. [ARTICLE]

In Memoriam.

, Resuliniims Epon th<*D?aili of Comrade William McKinley. I Resolutions adopted at the McKinley Memorial Exercises of Rens selaer Poet No. 84, G. A. R., held I at Memorial Hall Sept. 20th; 1901:1 Whereas-. The President of the i United States, William McKinley, has been assassinated at the .hand of Anarcay, and our Nation strick- | en with a grief more profound and ' all-pervading than ever before fell to its lot: and TK/zemts: We recognize that, | “God moves in a mysterious way | His wonders to perform," and that in the unfolding of the j Creator’s plans concerning His I creation, He never leaves wanting i the man for the specific occasion: ■ That when “In the course of hu- ' man events” Despotism must give | place to Liberty and God, with a j Gideon’s Band, would check the : mightiest nation on the globe and again impress upon the minds and hearts of mankind, “That there is a God in Heaven that rules among men”—the chosen Gideon of the occasion, was a Washington. That at the period of “Irrepressible Conflict” between right and wrong, when a Nation dedicated to Liberty and Freedom was threatened by the marshalled hosts of wrong and oppression, with destruction, the selected Captain of Freedom’s Legions (the price of whose captaincy was the last drop of his patriot blood and a Nation bathed in tears) was a Lincoln

That when, in the further unfolding of his mighty plan, a Nation by Him planted for that purI pose should smite the Tyrant’s power and Let the oppressed go free, and lead the nations of the | world up to the pl me of a higher, nobler civilization, God’s man assigned to the helm of our noble Ship of State, —the man who is now, by the foul, cowardly hand of the assassin, added to the long list of God’s Hero-martyrs, was our comrade, William McKinley, That we also recognize that because the finite can not grasp or comphrehend, the Infinite, we do not see what adequate good can come from that deplorable event which bows hundreds of millions in profound sorrow (for all the civilized nations of the earth mourn with us today.) We may not know why the frail woman at Canton, so lovely in all the relations of life, and who, as her last sad gaze falls upon her coffined dead, would so gladly exchange all the glory and fame that have come to her and hers, for the sweet and loving ministrations that have hitherto been hers, why she should be afflicted with such a crushing weight of sorrow as has fallen to her lot. But of this we may feel fully assured even in the darkest of earth’s sorrows; That, ‘‘Behind the dim unknown, StandethGod, within the shadows Keeping watch above His own.’' Therefore be it resolved; That this Post express its grateful satisfaction that the Peerless Leader, chosen of Heaven to the Post of Honor at so momentous an epoch in our country’s history. And to be a grand exemplar of the life, and death, of a true patriot, was a comrade of the Grand Army of the Republic: And Be It Resolved: That the deepest sympathy of the comrades of this Post be extended to her upon whom the sad event falls with such peculiar heaviness, and that their prayers to the Heavenly Father are,'that He will administer that consolation, in her great sorrow, which only the widow’s God can give. Be it Further Finally Resolved: That as “undying *vigilance is the price of liberty” the members of this Post will henceforth exoercise that vigilance to extent of their ability towards extermination of the hydra-headed. Anarchy now infesting and profaning our fair land until no place may be found within her borders for its foul existence.