Show LIFE AN inspiration why he will for all time the be numbered with the greatest of the earth HERE are characters so great that their memorials aro are tributes to those who read them it la 6 so BO with abraham r lincoln to pro 14 servo serve a fame that Is undying the tha appropriation by congress of as was not needed As proof of a nations nat loua grateful appreciation it was wise and generous we hear bear much these days of philosophy most of of it not understandable there are societies that study profoundly and profess to comprehend these circles are small and the results ie that they gain are uncertain dat but the philosophy of a life like hire Lincol Lintol ns takes hold upon millions it abides in the hearts and minds of men it influences nations tt it In inspires whole races in comparison with it what other la Is worth while born in wretched poverty an ill favored child upon whom and whose parents our learned professors would have frowned and always poor he had been numbered with the greatest of tho the earth never in his lifetime regarded as aa an orator he la ig enrolled among the mo most s gifted I 1 tt e d pleaders plea ders of all ages eme N never r e educated duca ted never widely read never a traveler ho he is conceded to have been ono one of the wisest of men never a trained soldier he commanded in war greater armies than any monarch or general never having had more than local celebrity as a lawyer he had conceptions of justice that were unknown to distinguished jurists of his time never neveil assuming to bo be a statesman or an economist and never until his call to tho presidency a successful manager of any enterprise he bo became a ruler who will be celebrated forever for wisdom sagacity and firmness never the author of a verse he has given us poetry in prose that is imperishable the humblest the least assertive of men it fell to him in an hour of crushing responsibility as commander in chief by the tha sovereign stroke of at a pen to put human slavery in the way of extinction there is no obscurity in the philosophy of such a life it touches every human being high or low rich or poor poo r wise or simple strong or weak j it la Is the flesh and blood life the life of at struggle sorrow borrow and achievement its lessons are for all what have science reason and recondite theory to offer in place of such a life nothing but words most of them meaning meaningless lesal 1 |