Show A FIREEATER GONE I I Bishop Wllmer of Alabama died two weeks ag lie was a I distinguished I bishop of the Episcopal church and made a sensation shortly after the close of tho Civil war by recommending to his clergy that they omit the Prayer for the President and all In civil authority au-thority as prescribed by the prayer book for use In the morning and evening even-ing services of that church He did It on the pretext that only military Government Gov-ernment then existed In Alabama I seems queer t look back to that time and recall the fierce passions which In those days made some men half lunatics luna-tics His recommendation suited his congregation though he violated the order or-der of his church and put aside the command that has come down through all the generations of Christians to pray for those who despitefully use you And Abraham Lincoln was President then tho man whom the Democracy now affect to so much revere Looking back through the history of those years how docs Abraham Lincoln compare with tho men who recommended that I he should not be prayed for We wonder won-der if in thelast years of that clergy mans life ho ever thought of the respective re-spective places which they would occupy oc-cupy in the estimation of men Of course It did not matter to Abraham Lincoln but tho good bishop did he r never tlilnk that It might matter n good deal to him I amounts to little now except as a reminder that we all should be careful in estimating men and all should if possible try to understand and judge tho motives behind mens acts Bishop Wilmer no doubt really believed that Abraham Lincoln was what his enemies painted him to be He had no possible conception of the great nature of the man and In the desolation and despair In which the South was left thought it right to make an exception notwithstanding notwith-standing the command of his creed But look uson tho character of Abraham Lincoln ns It shines hack from the beyond be-yond and see how easy It wafc to be deceived regarding his real nature and how necessary It is In Judging living men to possess a llttlo of the sixth sense and to Judge from what we feel as well as from what we see and hear Lincoln sleeps In his narrow house flowers cover the graves of the soldiers who died In tho great war this bishop who fondly believed that when on earth he was doing his masters work has gone to sleep and looking look-Ing over the gloomy history we discover that nil were but acting each his role as the Fates called the gloomy acts and the stage ran red with the blood of heroes and that the purpose was a higher and purer and more just career for our Nation that needed reforms re-forms might be established and that men should be Judged not only for what they do but for what they desire to do |