Show Some of the presidents when Inaugurated Inaugur-ated have selected a passage of scripture scrip-ture to kiss whim the inaugural oath is taken Mr W E Curtis writing to the Chicago Record says that the pas I sage of scripture selected for Mr McKinley Mc-Kinley to kiss when he tpok the inaugural in-augural oath was unusually appropriate appro-priate It reads Give me new wisdom and knowledge that I may go out and come in before this people for who can judge this Thy people that is so great President McKinley not only selected this passage from the holy scriptures because of its remarkable appropriateness appropriate-ness but in his inaugural address twice at the beginning and the ending he acknowledged divine sovereignty and Jnvoked the guidance of omnipotent omnipo-tent power > The verse that General Grant kissed was equally appropriate and was found I in the 11th chapter of Isaiah as follows fol-lows And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him the spirit of wisdom and understanding the spirit of counsel and might the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord And shall make him of quick understanding un-derstanding in the fear of the Lord and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes nor reprove after the hearing hear-ing of his ears The verse that President Hayes kissed was accidental and read His enemies encompassed him like bees but he would not destroy them President Arthur and President Cleveland did not select verses so far as known Mr Cleveland took the oath at both inaugurations upon a little red bible which was given him by his mother when he was a boy From this it is to be inferred that President Arthur and President Cleveland Cleve-land like the candidate for parliament described in Pickwick kissed them alL Those who select special verses may do so in remembrance of early youth when they did the same thing for the purpose of finding out whom they were to marry |