The memorial service in honour of the late President McKinley, held at Union Church on Sunday evening, was attended by avery large congregation, which included several officers and men from the American men-of-war in harbour, The prayers were offered by the Rev. W, P. Bentley and the Rev. D. H. Davis, and the lessons were read by the Rev. A. P. Parker, D.D., and the Rev. G. F. Fitch. The Rev. C. E. Darwent, M. A., preached an excellent sermon n texts taken from TT Chronicles, xxxvy Judah and Jerusilem mourned for Luke, xxuu, good man and a righteous oan by referring te the large number of deaths of people of high estate during the concluding year of the old and the first year of the new contury—Queen Victoria, who died at a ripe old age; the Dowager-Empress Frederick of Germany, who was carried off by hideous, disease, but whose death was in the course of nature; the late Empress of Austria, who was charitable and had done none ar harm, but was foully assassinated; King Humbert of Italy, a man of the people, who led a simple life, also a victim to the assassin; and now," William McKinley, the head of 80,000,000 people, a posi he had attained through his abi foully murdered, for that was only name by which the crime should be called. He said it seemed a cruel thing that this great man should have been carrie ed off in the prime of life; the United States did not deserve such a blow. The United States had shared its prosperity with all. Ite gates were open to the dewntroddon and poverty-stricken, who were given start in life; it had opened its virgin prairies to the world. Yet it was a man of the very class which received the kindest treatment int the United States that had murdered the President. Tt reminded one of the fable of the kindly husbandman, who, going out to. his work, found a snake almost frozen and perished with the cold, who carried it home and brought it hack to life; whereupon it turned on him and bit' him. Tt seemed hard that the man of all men in America, the man elected to be the head of eighty' millions of people, a man who had climbed from the lowest'rung of the Inder to the highest position attainable, should have been struck down by the hand of a fanatic when he was doing his best work. When he had just completed a triumphal journey, when he had just recovered his wife from the brink of the grave, he was struck down, and the Angel of Death took away from Mrs. MeKinley her husband, her pride and girny. It made one ask why Godt allowed this thing te happen. But we must remember that we were tried in this way; hardships, bloodshed and all troubles came that yood might ensue. And at a time like this, nations put aside their differences and controversies and all united in the common bond of sympathy. The enemies of one were the enemies of another. Continuing, Mr. Darwent said that he thought his text.was an adequate one. What better description of the late President could be
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