Show THE LINCOLN the rev II 11 fowler of auburn N Y in his is thanksgiving giving sermon die chew w tile tc following picture of the president Pies ident which will bo be as a striking port ait lait III in many particulars the progress of the ident illustrates tile alio progress of the people al ai thur stanley speaks of samuel the prophet as mediator between the old and the now new in jewish history his two sided sympathy enabled hirn him to unite tile the passing and the conlin coming W epoch such an epoch of perplexity tra transition 11 t and change is not often witnessed in every such passage of a nation there oti ought otilit lit to bo be a character like that of samuel lAlis misunderstood understood and at the time attacked aloin both sides charged with not going far enough and with going too far charged with saying too much and saying too little lie he slowly conscientiously and honestly out tile mighty problem ho he was not a founder of a new state of things like moses lie was not a champion of the existing older things of bilings like elijah iio he stood between tile the two between the I 1 living iving and tile dead between the alie past and the present between the old and the new with that sympathy for each which it at such a period is the lost best hope for any permanent solution of the questions which torment it his duty is carefully to distinguish between that which is temporal and that which is eternal ile he lias but little praise aiom partisans but bat is the careful healer binding up the wounds of the age ago in spite of itself the good sul t con knitting together other the dislocated dislocated b bonea obies of tile disjointed t times such a man was samuel among the jews a man was among the cai caily ay chi christians Chiist ians such a man is abraham Lin lincoln colli in thie day the explanation for his every act is this aliis lie ile executes tile will of the people lie ile represents a controlling majority if lie ile be slow it is because tho people ire are slow ifcic if he llave done a foolish acif act it was the stupidity of the people which impelled it his wisdom co consist insist in dairying cair calr ying out the b good sense of the nation his growth in political knowledge his steady movement toward emancipation ale aie but tile growth and movement of the national mind indeed in character and culture lie he is a fair representative of the average american his awkward speech and yet more awkward silence liis his uncouth manacis mann cis his grammer self taught and partly forgotten his stylo style miscellaneous concreted aiom the best like a reading 0 book and yet oftentimes of saxon force and classic purity aliks lii humor an argument and his logic a joke both unseasonable it at times and always his questions answers answer and his answers questions his guesses prophesies and fulfillment ever beyond his promise honest yet shrewd simple yet reticent heavy and yet vet energetic never despairing and nc never cr sanguine careless in forms conscientious in essentials never sacrificing a good servant once trusted never deserting a good principle once adopted not afraid of new ideas not despising old ones improving opportunities to confess mistakes ivady to learn getting at it facts doing nothing when lie knows not what to do hesitating nothing when lie sees the right lacking lac kinat the recognized qualifications of a party leader and yet leading his baity as no other mn m man N c can an sustaining his political e enemies in missouri to their defeat sus g his political friends in maryland ta to their victory conservative in his sympathies and radical in his acts socratic in hig stylo style and in his method his religion consisting in truthfulness temperance perance asking good people to pray fo for r hini him and publicly acknowledging in events the alie land hand of god lie stands before you as aa tile alie type of brother jonathan a not perfect man and yet mole precious preciou 9 than fine gold |