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Show HUMANITY'S MAN BY JUDGE R. M. WANAMAKER, Of tha Ohio Supreme Court. When God made Abraham Unco In. He aeema to have used all naturr'H resource re-source on Inside equipment. There was little left over for outside finish, f I have known the order to be reversed. Humility's child, he became humanity' human-ity' man. Born irfthe frontier nf America, he lived to place America on the. frontier of the democracy of the world. His great goal was to brinar tho American people back to the Declaration Decla-ration of Independence, and once more) read it into our constitution nnd life. In old Independence hall in F'hita-delphta. F'hita-delphta. In 1H61. when on his way to the capital to be inaugurated as president, pres-ident, he said tir -reply-to- the-chalr man's welcome; "I can t?ay In return, sir, fciHt nil tho 'political sentiment that I entertnin, have bce,n drawn, n far us I have been able to draw them, from the sentiments sen-timents which originated and were 1 given ta the world from this hall. I httve never had a feeliny politically that did not spring from the sentiments senti-ments prescribed in the Declaration of Independence which gave liberty, not alone to the people of this country, but i nope to tne world lor ' all future time." The immortal declaration had been buried for a long time when it waa resurrected by Lincoln In the fifties. If we were to teach and preach in schools and churches, fewer fads and less sensationalism, and mora of the Declaration of Independence and Lincoln's Lin-coln's principles 1 feel it would soon be reflected in our individual and na-tlonil na-tlonil 1 fe. |