Show w i w W MV l lW AMONG THE IMMORTALS t All Nations of the World Have So Written Abraham Lincoln That tam all lIetlol I odes frog ad lying e comp tltleoLtl eYT YSBURG c eepthe ADD in the v dime ancer me of tl them m Murders urderers 8 enc LEAOIJA3COQ e d oIh y ftJ 7o ouftlhffr bo It rtl ailed trc anth6 > contt n rtw aro coCtI d 7 lobt nr aYdded eN id mud 11 fd to t1 t propodt + oq thAt b31 me1 are crcbed eqeJ Avow wt Ale ot long ghd q a grene c War trt > 9 wtietker tlt to7 Or er Qty breach tr notion ifO coixrtved And 30 dedicated can log endrc Wt roposed we met oo Ts cjffbj ol > tsAeldy thbt w t > r t4t hae come to g In hel ddclIt a potip9 theS Geld ae anal rl tnd p1eciS tljo5Q 1 A peeu1 woe t Theo live > tlet Shot oat oqrqdht I ile OCt it angdeth r R And U 2 F and PpVt7 ihet WMhoJd do 1hk aut iq A la er seen a Worn hod < lead wcanndtdcd t arewe ciwoot C09 tcr > c wt taw7ot follow end tl5 dround Thl Irovc livlorf and adwio latte rl rOun oye men IIv1 dZNJ wo structplcd1 pert Hfcve CO 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man an God sees him We know how Abraham Lincoln saw himself Lincolns estimate of Lincoln was a very modest humble and moderate one AVe know how other people now see Abraham Lincoln In tho light of the translations of his actions by results re-sults and by time We can reverently believe that Abraham Lincoln as God saw him brought neither reproach nor contradiction contra-diction to say the least to the conception con-ception of him by the people of the earth when they came to understand him In the light of the events to which he will ever be sublimely related relat-ed In human estimate While his is a fame and a service this republic for manifest reasons mainly remembers and observes all nations of the world write him among the Immortals and the ascent of everyone every-one of them to better things is sympathetically sym-pathetically assisted by the force and the fragrance of his career here lIe is gradually becoming idealized That is not to be regretted His ideal izatlon is only that revelation of him from tho skies to men as God saw him when the heavens received him out of our sight We are glad our government and our people make his birthday a holiday holi-day We are aware that It is difficult to hold the observance of his birthday to solemn ceremonies or within memorial memo-rial services That is the law of the effect of holidays among free people peo-ple as dlstancs in tlmo increases from the death of the entirely great The significance is less In the celebration celebra-tion of the lime than in the fact of setting it forth by law and by sentiment senti-ment as a holiday at all That fact Is In itself a transcend ant P the tribute Individuals will act accord leep sIng s-ing to their temperament or their conJ ollowln dltlons but the nation as an indlvldu In tl nllty by suspending its business by reeedl ceasIng from Its contentions by bringing ouple bring-ing Its activities of government toa oral halt on this birthday of its preeminently haut t preemi-nently great modern man pays a trl j n a rll butes crown of tribute to his work So sand s-and to his worth and that Is the supreme su-preme and the universal homage daught Wo trust that the idealization oH Indeed Lincoln will always continue that the was pi endeavor to reduce the measurement did no of him will cease or will never sue don 11 coed Wo have no sympathy with money the petty endeavors which have been 1 It he put forth to that effect in the case or I the WI Just Washington The Instincts of nianlj kind have measured them small who j have tried to reduce the heroic appraisal ap-praisal of Washington In the alleged Interest of truth The endeavor has never enlisted large minds or large souls and the little ones It has enlisted en-listed have reduced even themselves by the endeavor As It is with Washington so should it be with his one peer In our history whose anniversary is now at hand The Idealization of both gives us the real men Puny efforts to impair that idealization affect not the proportions of tho men any more than the slime of files affects tho stately columns on which flies may lightor crawl Those of us who saw and met Lincoln of In our boyhood are not yet far beyond the middle period of life They can was never feel that their experience in Ryel meeting him did not register the high met water mark of their lives here Sox 30 felt those who In former generations N met Washington The two Washington Washing-ton the grandest of human characters TU and Lincoln the most human of grand characters should never be differentiated In dif-ferentiated in the minds or hearts of Americans Brooklyn Eagle J not |