Show centenary of Lincol ns birth Is appropriately remembered by country worthily have the american people joined in an appropriate celebration of the lincoln centenary and extend ed it to the r a m 0 t eat corners of the land the a of f t this it Is month Is the one h u n dreith a n n i of tho the birth of if A A b D r a H ham lin if in ill coin that date la Is ob served with a solemn a I 1 a m n and yet g grate r a t a tul ful ceremony by the whole american people who own owe more to lincoln than to any other citizen of the republic save only washington lincoln la Is after washington the greatest figure in our national history no other man performed services so great as his or was so high a character his conduct during the trying days of the civil war when the union that had been founded with high hopes tor for human liberty seemed destined to be destroyed was such an aa to appear inspired by a power greater than human and many an american has thanked god in his nightly prayers that so wise gentle forbearing a leader had been raised up by divine direction to guide the country to safety HI ilia death was a great calamity not less to the south than to the north for if lincoln had beert been spared his qualities of heart and mind would have made the task of reconstruction much easier than it proved and would have healed the wounds of war much sooner the south will join with the north in observing Lincol ns one hundredth edth birthday tor for now in theao utter latter days day his bis memory la in as aar deeply beloved south of 0 mason and dixons una as aa north of it the celebration la Is worthy to bo be remembered as aa an expression of the gratitude and affection ol of a great people when we once resolve to lay aside desire to make of Lincol ns life and words an arsenal from which to draw weapons with which to tight far special causes and consider with quiet thought abraham lincoln as aa all americans know he was we find the materials ample we see BOO abraham lincoln as a homely kindly patient man who loved life his country as men love their mothers we see him seeking tho the welfare of all that mothers soon because lie he was one of them we see BOO him working such as aa no american before save humbly and patiently under badens burdens washington and none since has been called upon to bear we see him always charitable realizing that in this human world men are moved by all sorts of motives and appealing to all motives that in honesty and honor he could asking only that the results of the appeals be acts helping to save and restore to peace the nation mother and so BO abraham lincoln wrought with the tools at hand never complaining pla ining of their human imperfections using to his great end riot not only the noblest aspirations of the beat but ev every e r y force of human desire dealie and thus thug delivering a raco race from arc b a 0 n d age and saving a nation because he 0 v a r wrought i with mal ice fee toward pone none und anil with charity W for or all 01 |