Show e Q I Lincoln's Legacy I Ie e By Dy DR FRANK CRANE A great man leaves the world t two o legacies One is the ideal which inspires young oung people to to become more serviceable and worthwhile The Tho other comprIses comprises com corn those speeches of common sense and that we wo remember and repeat and revere evere because the great man said them In time they become part of or the thought of those who repeat them and have hace an influence upon their lives Jives Such are arc Thomas Jeffersons Jefferson's Let t et error be bo free so 80 long Jong as truth is free freo to combat it Theod Theodore re Roosevelt's The law of oC worthy life liCe is fundamentally fundamentally tally tho the law of strife strICt and Benjamin Franklins Franklin's Diligence is the mother of ot good luck Few men have haye left leU a a. richer legacy of ot the second second sec sec- ond form torm than Abraham Lincoln Put this from the mine of his understandIng understanding understanding under- under standing up somewhere in a place where you will see seo it every day STAND WITH ANYBODY THAT STANDS RIGHT STAND WITH HIM WHILE HE lIE IS RIGHT EIGHT AND PART T WITH WITS HI HIM 1 WHEN HE lIE GOES WRONG Only the rare and the great man is able to do that Here are aro the tho two tests When the one you dislike most says something right can you take his side When the one you admire and like best is on the wrong side does the fact tact that you like him blind bUnd you to the error Everyone has his pet hate It may be a man in public life lICe a newspaper a writer of or books or an attitude of mind When he meets it It acts like a a. red flag to a bull buU The test of that persons person's character Js is whether he can recognize the right when right when it comes from one of or his hates 1 You ou cant can't go very far tar in life Ufe without meeting the tue problem Tho The easy thing to do is Ia to fo condemn all aU the ideas of those with whom you disagree in In the main Most people dont don't like the Ideas of oC the ones they hey dont don't like Uke They judge ideas on the basis of ot who tho said them one Everyone is a mixture of truth and error Even the people we dislike Only a Silurian brained brained individual indi Ini- vidual can get up a pure unadulterated hate Others catch the occasional gleam of goodness and truth that Is present In tho the worst Emerson says somewhere that a a. man is cultured as soon as he lie sides with his critic against himself with joy Similarly a n. man begins to become gr great at in the tho Lincoln sense of the word when he lie arrives at the place wh where re ho le can stand with ANYBODY t that at stands right as long Ion as they are right without out re regard regard regard re- re gard to his likes and dislikes When Then Lincoln was assassinated the mortal part of ot him disappeared but the better part his spiritual influence still lingers Around him has grown up perhaps a a. wealth of myths but most of oC them serve to give point to his character He Ifs will remain for all aU time as the Inspiration in inspiration In In- to the youth of the world orld who can do dono dono dono no better than to imitate his sterling honesty his sense of humor and his strange sense of right Copyright 1928 McClure Newspaper r Syndicate |