| Show PASTORS OF CITY PAY PHY El ELOQUENT TRIBUTE I to O AND D lIft lifE WORK Tributes to Lincoln were features In services of the churches yesterday Rev Re P. P A. A Simpkin pastor of oC Phillips Congregational church took for his subJect subject sub sub- yesterday morning the Religious Life Ilfe of Lincoln In introducing the topic Rev lev Mr Simpkin said In part Some da days s 's In the year ear belong ta to humanity humanity hu hu- hiu- hiu manity In the depth and scope of all that is In the memories they hold wide as aa the earth and tho the age are set a few days of at the anniversaries men keep keep Christmas Christmas Easter Baiter and Ascension day The rhe da day of oC February Is one olle of oC the days that has a meaning of tremendous tremendous tre Lye reach for every ery lover of or lib liberty every thinker of ot world-problems world in particular particular par par- every ery true American the American the natal day of that child of ot genius and destiny destiny- Abraham Lincoln No Noone one ma may account for the soul blazIng blazIng blazing blaz blaz- ing like a great in the simple setting getting and the uncouth chasing of at his career In no system of training In no rooting of traceable selection in no sufficing suf suf- Icing human causation can one find the secret of his splendid genius and absolute absolute absolute ab ab- ab- ab solute mastery of life lIe in the conquests of ot his greatness s. s seemingly automatic In tho the response e of ot his soul to tasks Herculean he is as great an enigma as he lie Is la an Idol of the age and andone andone andone one can but find the fingers that molded the rugged splendor of him the fire Ire that burned in his wonderful life Ufe to be the fingers and the fire of the Eternal Master Master Master Mas Mas- ter who lending himself to the generations generations genera genera- tiona in the broken bits of ot glory glary that make malee the greatness of the races race's leaders and saviors was In in Him Slim who was born amid the lilies of far Judea Life Story Wonderful Romantic Is in the story o of him who in two score years ears reached from the and the forest to the mastery of time his for tor for no men of statecraft in his day beyond Gladstone and Bismarck came within measurable distance of ot him carrying to the presidents president's s chair the homely habit and simple gl directness rr tn which so 80 perfectly represented the spirit of American democracy Pity trembles Into tears as much of af affection affection af- af as all of oC sorrow In iii the vision Unfading unfading unfading un un- fading that his hia life holds as he passes from narrow a poverty by Unflinching I ht W struggle gl with t i crr circumstance l n ti until in the very heart of ot the mighty contest that set sat In form tonn abiding the life of ot the Republic Republic Republic Re Re- public he sits a man of ot sorrows with face tace seamed and i shadowed by the weight of oC war with heart beclouded In such fashion that only an occasional shaft of at sunny gladness touched It tillIt till tillit tillit it beat to the eternal anthem as he left the shadows forever Where Lincoln Surpasses Without stealing one line Une of ot glory from any other of the great ones who have ha-e served this wonderful America he ha stands apart and above all the rest rest and and even Washington ashington first of ot all the train Imperishable In point of oC time In military military mili mili- tary g genius undaunted courage and de devotion devotion de- de to the cause of liberty even liberty even he yields to the sweet humanity the patient greatness and the glowing genius of oC this man of oC America the Ideal of all his fe fi- fi low When the bitterness of partisanship shall have passed the wide land will come to see that tha t the successors of ot this illinoisan men like ilke Garfield and Cleveland Cleveland Cleveland Cleve Cleve- land Harrison Roosevelt and McKinley shared many of oC the qualities of oC greatness greatness greatness great great- ness that mingled in fashion unique to tomake tomake tomake make the greatness of oC Lincoln As the priests of old for centuries after Thermopylae taught their children to re recite recite recite re- re cite the Illustrious names of the three hundred whose sacrifice made the spot they defended Immortal so should we teach our generation of oC tomorrow the elements of oC that character and the grandeur of that service which he gave to America and to lovers liberty-lovers of oC alithe all ali the earth A large congrE congregation atlon heard Rabbi C. C J. J Freund of the Temple Israel give an address on Lincoln in the First Methodist Methodist Methodist Meth Meth- odist church last night Rabbi Freund said that he considered Lincoln as the prophet of ot humanity and that his life liCe was not only lived for the American people people peo peo- pie but for the world at large Lincoln True Leader Lincoln could not abolish slavery until the hour for its demise had struck said Rabbi Freund He lie refused to Issue the proclamation of oC emancipation at a time that It could not be he wisely carried out lIe He waited long Ions resisting appeals to his conscience until the hour struck Lincoln Lincoln Lin Lin- coln coIn was-the was peerless leader In the fight for the extermination of oC slavery lie He was the- the prophet of oC and for Cor his time The prophet does not follow he leads lIe He Is Ish Isn Iso in the h vanguard r to o point n out and d designate 7 t nate t the way and n t the way a that Lincoln pointed led to the fulfillment of ot righteous righteous- ness nes As a leader Lincoln showed himself himself him him- self sel made of that stuff of ot which saints prophets and leaders of men are truly constituted Abraham Lincoln was as an inspired in individual In- In and chosen of God to do the great work that he did Humanity made Its call on Lincoln and through Lincoln was the proper answer given to that call He lie was the prophet of ot humanity arid and f humanity born horn of oC the common people of ot whom he lie said God must have loved the common common people or else how could lIe He have made so many ninny of them Lincoln suffered not for Cor the south but with the south and arid was the prophet not only for tor the people of the north but hut of the south and of oC the world at large bearing the message that was his to give Pleasing music was given by the choir choh and an orchestra |
