lOVING TRIBUTE PAm PAID MEMORY O lINCOLN Service in Honor of Great Geat President President Pres Pies ident Held at Phillips Ch Church u I IA A Lincoln service wa was held hEhl at Phillip Con Congregational re church last e evening nn and an fin audience ncE that crowded the thEs church paid tribute to the devotion of or the thc common common American to the great Pre l- l dent Thc rime service ser was enriched by ex exquisite exquisite ex- ex quiche special music and some sone decorations decorations decora decora- 0 of a patriotic nature were In ele evi l dence e nce Rev Re P. P A A. A Simpkin paid IH a a. warm and anil loving tribute to the time character of President Lincoln saying in part hart of oC Lincoln Is the greatest American our rich history blessed el with great men He lie Is lm 1 nest beloved d. is be best t understood un un- un- un of or thc people he because cause ho shrines In his life the simplicity Soil and pathos time the spirit and anti genius of ot our American cl civilizatIon lion It was as a Il simplicity that marked hi hl imP life and amid character In Jn tIme the backwoods s nd nd the prairie home as RS well a as on omi the time throne of or power powel In the seat leat of the ml mighty ht his soul was wat a HH as fresh and unspoiled un un- spoiled as a prairie flower In the sunn sunny sweetness of or a June JUn mOUin morn U I in ing mm g. g The pathos was wa a gentle accompaniment ment or of hj hits his great life It was as In the pitiful poverty pO that makes him COre CI one ouie with tin tin- humblest m American t a pathos that lifts Into sublime grandeur H the tho lonely greatness of or the tra tragic lc J bloody blood hours when his keen eyes watched the spirit of democracy g lIn to abide and anti In a partnership 0 at a agony OIlY and amid endurance he was privilege In Gods God's providence to tu bring to It ll a new nation makes makes- beautiful hi lit hl- years of or greatness ls rIll Tho t spirit Indomitable of the themer Amerlean Amer- Amer lean glowed In lii him mark mark mark-i In Ing the time then n way vay that lr-d lr from ron rom the peasants peasant's ts t's cabin to the presidency With Hh that under the tho mn magic lc spirit of ot our laud land spread themselves J es to fall In iii capacious II beauty about his direct rUc rugged cd peron-l peron r alit allt making each day ii of or widening service el wonderful he met no ta task k too toot great rea t no question Ion too o In d. d no heroIsm hero hero- Ism hm too keen for om his hlll mastery hero i He Hel stands the American spirit Incarnate The rIme genius g of oC our oum national life burned In him S I With th a resiliency of oC soul nc never ncr r too strained to be e I l' l th tire thrust of lm hu- mol mor or om tHe tiie Jor or strenuous DI with a heart a as before the humanism sm a as l If vast ast as as' ever er beat bat with a wide a as time the gamut of or Americas America's di diverse dl- dl I verse life lire trusting first In God amid ami j n himself Ir and his f fellow S lIo hf lie moved 1110 forward to tn his Ic with stead steady dy steps atolls the time destiny of oC saving a nation from rein Its narrower self and planting lt its life on un the wide Slid and abounding foundations of unit unity and ana sovereignty I er 1 n t No So wonder the the- time acclaims In Increasingly in increasingly l liP his greatness r No So w wonder u er In face ace of oC th the workings I Ian an and the tIme accomplishments of or his lila life who whose c s are a R miracle In In th the realms of oC personality the time worlds world's rench reach out to lav mv Inon on his seamed but serene Herene brow blow a crown crown of or oll olive ln