Sensational Sermon by a Nashville Minister

     Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 23.—“Was the assassination of President McKinley the will of God?”
     This was the subject of a sensational sermon last night by Rev. C. C. Cline, pastor of the Johnson Avenue Christian church, one of the leading congregations of the city.
     He said the death was the will of God, as had been the displacement of four Kings and Rulers in Bible times, and the assassination of Lincoln and Garfield.
     He declared God was jealous for the poor and oppressed and that President McKinley was a commercial president, harboring corporations to the detriment of the masses.
     “McKinley was weighed by God and found wanting.” “He was abnormally a financial President. He was the best servant the corporations ever had in the White House.
     “I see in Roosevelt a solution of the labor problem. There is no use in hanging anarchists. Go to the hot bed of anarchy—plutocracy.
     “Give the masses legislation and not the few who work the masses. The first blessing is Roosevelt’s friendship for the masses and the second, the removal of anarchy.”
     Rev. Dr. Cline declared the President was controlled by the corporate influences and spoke of his alleged friendship for catholic force.
     “We have an untrameled [sic] President now, except for one promise that he will carry out McKinley’s plans and I regret it.”