Leaves of Healing Volume 15 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ... thing Sometimes you see the greatest and best men in the country maligned in this way. Assassination of President McKinley Result of Newspaper Mockery. For years, the late President William McKinley was represented as a miserable little boy with a cocked hat, playing at being President, and altogether under the power of a big, black, ugly-looking woman whom they called Mark Hanna. That got into the public mind, until the able President was held in the utmost contempt by a vast number of people, who were very ignorant and could not read much--foreigners who could not understand our language, but who could understand a cartoon like that. They mocked at the President and they mocked at Roosevelt, and from among the mockers came the poor, miserable wretch that assassinated President McKinley. Thousand of mockers are to be found connected with the press in this land. Not merely do they mock at good men and good institutions, but they mock at all good. They often mock at God. Some of them call Him the Weather Man'. They mock at God until even Christians sometimes take up the words, and say, "I wish the Weather Man would give us better weather." You are mocking at God when you say that. The weather is in God's control. I warn you lest you should take up the mocking words. There is nothing so foolish as the would-be wit of today. There is nothing so cheap, there is nothing that degrades more, than the mockery of the press of today. Certainly, there never has been a period in the world's history when the mockery of God was so prevalent. Surely these are the Last Days Knowing this first, that in the Last Days mockers shall come with mockery, walking after their own lusts. Degenerate and Filthy Character of Press "Mockers." These mockers, the so...