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Show I SERMONS ON POLITICS ENDED Kev. Uarvcr ot Presbyterian Church Brings Series to Close In the closing .sermon at the Pres- V byterian church on "Great Parties and Policies" I a?t fVMllQft the Kev. John Carver dealt with several of the many minor parties that have from time to time influenced the thought and served as forerunners of some of the great issues of the nation. "It was Lincoln." he said, "who gave us the best definition of the American commonwealth though tho thought cannot be Paid to be original I with him Our country Is a govern -BILMi incnt of the people, by the people and j I for the people' Some time.- in the se- lection of a president, a man Is se- lectcd because of what he is rather 1 Hi in what the parly policies may be. :3 I VU thi With the lection I of Washington. Andrew Jackson was jH elected rather because of his personal- Hy than by reason of what he stood 31 for. He was considered to be the em-' (War bodlment of the new west and expan- ' WkWM sion. Roosevelt, though closely al- jH 'led with great measures, was elected more because of the Roosevelt person-J ality than because of the party trends' HH Lincoln, however, was first elected jm I irelj because of th. platform of his vD party and such was the case with Jef- ' f IH ferson who was the embodiment of the "IP reaction of tlie Adams rule. HH I The one principle that lends un-! I deratandlng to the course of Amen- ISga i t'&n politico is that more and morv the1 nag government is becoming a true exam- WM ,,,c' of Lincoln's definition. We see it in all the great party movements and JLmm in the developments. We see It in the direct primary, the direct election of WAm senators, the suffrage amendment and WwM many lcssr advances In fact the election of this year is so much more Wm an election by ihe people that it is mmm completely different from the elections JH - Jl held in the dawn of our government." I The development of our national convention, and the election place ''in where each citizen has a voice if de- IV j sired was traced and the growth of I . ml oth. I,. I Mm , 'I"'--' eh-i-iion was illustrated bv the if ,lfc story of leaders of American hin- " ' ho h id u the ad-N ad-N ement of individual participation |