| Publication information |
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Source: New York Magazine of Mysteries Source type: magazine Document type: editorial Document title: none Author(s): anonymous Date of publication: October 1901 Volume number: 1 Issue number: 6 Pagination: [161] |
| Citation |
| [untitled]. New York Magazine of Mysteries Oct. 1901 v1n6: p. [161]. |
| Transcription |
| full text |
| Keywords |
| William McKinley (death: personal response); William McKinley; William McKinley (last words); William McKinley (death: religious response). |
| Named persons |
| Matthew D. Mann; William McKinley. |
| Notes |
| The editorial (below) is accompanied on the same page with a photograph of McKinley. |
| Document |
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A GREAT SOUL has passed to the Angel World.
And what a Great Soul was William McKinley! Here
on the Earth Plane he was an ideal American citizen, an ideal ruler, a Christian
Gentleman—a God-loving soul.
His last utterances clearly show what a pure and
lofty soul was this.
After chanting the words of the beautiful hymn,
“N, M G,
T,” his last audible
conscious words, as taken down by Dr. Mann at the bedside, were:
“G, ; G. I G’. H.”
This last utterance marked the calm, beautiful
way of a Great Soul passing on to its God, and it has thrilled millions of souls
with love and reverence for the Great God, as no other utterance could have
done.
He passed on as all God-loving souls leave the
body at the transition called “death.” He left us as he had always lived in
sublime love for and faith in God. He has taught the true way to go to our Heavenly
Home.
Tongue and pen are impotent to picture the glory
of such a passing to the Angel World.
At the close of his earth-life the tender love
of God thrilled this mighty soul, and serenely and majestically it soared out
into the heavenly realms to eternal joy and bliss—with the Angels.
As this Magazine always tells man that he is an
eternal soul—the child of an All-Loving Father—we see in Mr. McKinley’s passing
on one of the most beautiful pictures of how serenely a God-loving soul leaves
its body to join the Angels.
We know that this Great Soul still lives; we know
that out of the physical body, in its heavenly home with other great souls who
have gone on before, our blessed President will continue to love and serve mankind.
“Death” is not the end—it is a new birth into a higher and brighter world than
this—a mere transition to a much higher plane of consciousness, where the soul
does not cease its activity in behalf of mortals here on the Earth Plane.
God and the Angels are ever with us.
Our beloved President will continue to live in
our hearts and souls, and the grave has only robbed us of the body.
God’s way is always the right way.