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     The lamentable death of Wm. McKinley, our honored president, marks an epoch in American History, perhaps in world events. He may be called the last of the school that had its beginning with Lincoln. What a generation that has been! Slaves freed, a nation saved, an empire built, a sinning Spain rebuked! No other forty years, save the first generation of the Christian era, has been so pregnant with great things. And through it all, McKinley moved, a manly man who sought to do his whole duty. He knew the great men of his age and tried to be worthy of their company. Death robbed him of the earthly realization of his cherished ideals, but it revealed to us the nature of the man-become-king. Tremendous transmuting power have Democracy and Christianity when by working hand in hand they can lift a Lincoln, a Garfield, a McKinley from the walks of common life to such an immortality!
     The vital questions which these men faced are solved now, but in their solution what perplexing problems were given birth! The new generation of strenuous statesmen will have no sinecures. God grant that they may manifest a similar purity of purpose and integrity of character!