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Show "ABlt.VlIAJl I,INi;0U.' Extract of I, ctnro DoIIyeied by Br. O.T. Browit. Evcrvmio )tiulii know ihn life ol Abraham Lincoln. We should know (if Abraiiain Ltiieulu as wo kuow uui-fteiy uui-fteiy iliyincs. 1IU birth took placaOOyrars t-go last Sunday, lie ns imiu iu a uab.n wild nn II nr. His p.trcnu were p tor. Hut be iiilicriifil a ii.iulu uioMier In. 111 whom lm icruivcd ItiMiublu nail?, -Ail Hull I am luwu to my uugvl mother," hu s dil. A liny can get along wfth 11 poor r.'.iher, biiKiod pity hini 1. ho das inn a g 'Oil luoLher. Tdu prayers of his mother rollowetl .iihp all 1 he-days of (is iru.- . (iod iitess ihu iroml mothers. 6ui dims th Ir iimlntioiis, Civilization iiinvos mi liy iIidiii. Jlerih iiih Ctinu when Abraham wa tint nine years of age. Ills luhuiiiaiico rroni her was of priceless valnu. His ear y Ufa was onu of homely simplicity, sim-plicity, sincerity and strength. J'lturt! wtjio iinys of r.ill-.plittluir, store-Uueidn and debiting lu the sOlloollliiUsea, 'J'lieiu uru the daysol :hu liltudc Hawk war. AI1r.1h.1m Lincoln hud thu chivalry of jlKllCf. "A douse divided ngnltut Itself can. not Miami." Aliiah.nn Lincoln was lite rt j nil-Hclaii nil-Hclaii wim was wl. ling tn slaml upon Unit principle, II,. maichetl right oil. Hu had a ciioscbtiieti In liisbiule, People, have coiisciencu In their In art but not in the ii)Mln. Ho could set his feet on tho neck of kings. With refctonni to Hot gieui woik before him hu said, wp.en ihu htonu was gallierlng aroiniil 8 itvury: "God cares, huiii.iiiliy cares and 1 cat o'.1' Hu wu GimI's iiiuti In ihu oinuicunih century, He had the backbone, (, had iim saiiiu primal principal of poiier that Croiuwull had, The m xi h cHirn on the pourso will da given by Ucv. A. II. Henry at the Meihodlsi chuicli, Fehitpiry 2&1U. The Mii'Jrot will be, "The Intrinsic Value o iluu.'' |