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Agents and Principals
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Since I last wrote you God in his
providence has seen fit to permit the removal of our President.
Some say that his slayer struck not at the man, but at the government
of which he was the chief agent; but if this be so, will not the
act of the state of New York on October 28 in striking God’s chief
agent dead be a blow aimed at God instead of at his agent? If God
would protect his agent in this matter, could that electrocution
take place? We are told that God holds the lightning in his hand;
so does New York, but can it be that she is mightier than God, who
evidently would let that man live longer if she would consent? Lest
th[e]se suggestions should be imputed to a Freethought source, will
you allow me to quote a Nashville, Tenn., item?
“Was the Assassination of President
McKinley the Will of God?” This was the subject of a sensational
sermon delivered to-night by the Rev. C. C. Cline, pastor of
one of the leading congregations of the city. He said the death
was the will of God, as has been the displacement of four kings
and rulers in the Bible times, and the assassination of Lincoln
and Garfield.
He declared God was jealous of
the poor and oppressed, and that President McKinley was a commercial
President, harboring the corporations to the detriment of the
masses. McKinley was weighed by God and found wanting. “He was
abnormally a financial President—the best servant the corporations
ever had in the White House. There is no use hanging Anarchists.
Go to the hotbed of anarchy—plutocracy. Give the masses legislation,
and not the few who work the masses.”
The Rev. Cline declared the President
was controlled by corporate influences, and spoke in a sensational
manner of his alleged friendship for Catholics. He said:
“Roosevelt steps in without complications
or obligations to the Catholic force[.] We have an untrammeled
President now[,] except for the one promise that he will carry
out McKinley’s policies. I regret it.”
The Rev. Cline is a man of high standing,
and his sermon will doubtless cause a sensation.
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