19th September.
PrEsIDEXT RoosEVELT has well begun his new career by setting apart for mourning and prayer the day of the funeral of President McKinley. Those who give up the day, as Mr. Goodnow suggested on Tuesday, to the memory of the gallant ruler so foully sent' to a premature grave could not want a better theme for their thoughts than the grandly eloquent oration delivered by Bishop Moore at the meeting two days ago. Iv is worthy of its subject. He 0 showed bette? than we have been able to do how deep is the loss that the United States has sustained, how thoroughly William McKinley merited that a nation of some eighty millions of people should cease for a day from their ordinary _avocations, throwing out of gear the whole vast and complex machinery of society, and give themselves up to a sorrowful study of the calamity that has befallen them, and prayer that that study may, if possible, result in time in such a reorganisation of our social conditions that the existence of monsters like the murderers of President Sach-Carnot, of the Empress of Aus-trio, of King Humbert, and of President McKinley will become only a memory.
In Canada, in Great Britain, and in all the King's dominions over seas, while to-day may not be set apart as it is in the United States, we Britons shall join with the great people whom all the events of the last three or four years have united even more closely to us than before, in true mourning and sympathy. The sympathy that the United States showed with us in our great loss in January last we feel to-day, and the grief of those who attend the services to-day at St. Paul's and Westminster Abbey will be as sincere as the grief of those who attend the thousands of churches that will be crowded to-day on the other side of the Atlantic.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.