Show f f life character and illustrious berio vices vicca of alie ali e late president ABRAHAM lm LINCOLN COLN delivered at the abs c in ali tiro 0 tabernacle S salt tit lake city on oil th tho 3 dinst by icv norman mcleod pastor of the congregational church mr air mayor and ana fellow citizens A great man lias has fallen on the heights of his hia count rys glory the peoples chosen president the poor mans friend tho the large heated noble minded christian patriot abraham lincoln is ia no more the thie eurand hand of tho the assassin crum crushed lied out ont tile brave life lif c that for years agonized in a gethsemane of for tit the c nati nations onIg life and today to day a mighty nation is ia draped ili in mourning and bedewed with tears for tile the death of her illustrious son but blessed bd god the ples of right light and of liberty for which lie ho yielded up his prec precious iotis life tire arc immortal lid alid cannot die neither bullot bullet nor steel nor the poison cup can arrea them in their mission of elevation and of freedom or stave off the grand consummation of liberty even now amida the direful calamities of the present pres cht thosa principles rise calm and defiant speaking words of lofty hope and cheer to a sorrowing people unfurl ing the banner of expectancy and of can confidence to the oppressed of ev every ery land and leading on the struggling bands in the great battle to victory no no not alone in the bravo brave heart that burst when our good and true president died are the principles enthroned on which are pillared the hopes of our afflicted country but in the hearts of the millions of his sorrowing fellow country men who will now by the ennobling might of sorrow be uplifted in purpose and in daring to the grand necessities of the occa occasion siou nerved to new heroic deeds and to all the sacrifices by deathless principles c demanded the heavens leavens suddenly gathered darkness the of passion swept the besom of the peaceful waters the wild waves rose and dashed round the glorious bark freighted with the h hopes of a world the brave pilot calm t and d fearless was at his post the strong hand was on oil the wheel his great heart was nerved with holy purposes his countenance lit up with grand inspirations the light 1 aings of bunian wrath gleamed cleame around darouny him but for long months of peril lie remained even as the hebrew martyrs in their air fiery sepulchre because he had with him the same fiame divine presence and was ivas shielded by the same omnipotence ni the great heart of the wi ni tion was fixed upon him tile the pi avers of millions ascended in his behalf that vengeance b ance 0 stayed until hi his great mission cioll was accomplished ever and again as the die dark cloud was uplifted or rent the hero still it at his hia post of duty some there here w were rei who comprehended great r souls aud and they saw sadness badness gathering on oil the countenance of the elected leader of the people but that sadness was mellowed and softened down by the tender ten der sympathies of his noble heart at last however when there ther e seemed to be a lull in the storm a and i 11 d when the bow of hope was sech seen in the horizon of liberty a malignant flash struck down the patriot oh how has the mighty fallen and the strong arm relaxed the life 80 precious q ad till d t lie cup of agony pressed to the tr trembling en ibling lips of i the 11 0 but nation oil but tho the proud lieujen heairn guided bark still floats triumph in on tho the wave Tho nation that today to tc day mourns mourna the cru et T death of h her e i great r cat loader is in no sense arrested in her hr e r mission of progress and of liberty principles ideas 1 not men govern ain america and these are as the nature of god immortal and imperishable though we mourn their seemingly un timely dyet en me ninever die until their work is accomplished Civili civilization on is un checked cheeked che chael eked Ced in its sublime advance adva tide t the iffe far ces of eternal truth tile 1 agencies of al edth so these rc powers on tho the bidka of great gre at principles 1 a nd d guard ing the in oatlie ages yet to alcomo come and securing their ultimate triumph what ahat to may seem to be our great and irreparable loss will yet be found our 6 exceeding great anil an d glorious gi gain liti asa people parle the tender sorrow borrow forthe the departed vill tremain remain but the bitterness will be ex ax tr tract acted cd I 1 ar a r i I 1 I 1 1 f I 1 I 1 As patriots wo sorrow f 1 we v e wee bour pour fallen leader or a bense alf be g fealing bf loneliness home to every patriot heart itis well tit 1 is fi that we our trib lute ute of forrow w andray andr lay it on of the great bereavement 0 butare w e cruh ed cd bel in I 1 aster and ana of no t 1 I plein fits V ai vit V ons 0 f grand au i ilja jsoe Js ot our cor I 1 au rk life ortho nation andin it its s growing omnipotence and glory deepened and confirmed confirm ed 7 1 wo we mourn the aidlen patriot today to day l but ut the bereaved nation is still fiellin ri rich ellin m great and illustrious sons the occasion will give birth to the destined man end ana furnish the energies the resources and the to grand inspirations to guard tile the na ila eions tiona priceless interests and to guide her r through till all the stormy way of her destiny if the moses of liber liberty ty has died on oil the summit 6 of the mount of vision after having drunk the raptures of the fiti future fure the stern joshua still survives to head the outward march and to consummate the great victory I 1 tremble yet I 1 exult my bly soul bows in reve reverence renco before a present god yet my confidence for the nation deepens deep cus even now when I 1 gaze through the gloom odthe present to the grand coming dea tiny of america today to tb da day I 1 mingle my tears with the tears teals 1 of bf millions 1 I sorrow but I 1 hope because tile the lord lora god goa omnipotent reign eth heroic purposes it are re today to day deepening in bereaved and saddened Badde ned hearts that will bear our nation safely through all lier her great perils despite all the efforts of hc her enemies and her op posers and uplift her to light and liberty her destiny is is upward and onward her mission 8 oil is the mission of liberty and ot of empire and the sacrifice of no life I 1 however ow precious can impede her progress or clog the fiery wheels of her advancing car A million lives as precious as the dear precious life wo we mourn today today I 1 might be sacrificed but would the nation natio be self or abandoned other of her god would her deathless purpose of freedom everywhere every through the broad land we call our country be damped or her terrible endeavors in thu tho stern mis mission Lion 0 of f accomplishment in the least abated no to I 1 today to to dai day 1 in her ino mourning billing i bedewed d wit with h tears for her great fallen patriot plit riot the leader of her choice the son 0 of f her affections bowed to the dust with the anguish of her mighty grief she is stron stronger gei and nobler than ever before and now as never before she is consecrated to progress and to liberty to the sublime mission of abasing oppressors and blessing the people the moral forces of the ages ageg 1 I 1 seem to bo be culminating gathering c on american soil for abr the last ina battle for freedom there was a necessity for the great sacrifice or the bullet had bad been turned asil by b y the hand of god and the hero hid StIr survived to accomplish his wol work JE by the blood of our illustrious martyr a new national redemption is tobe to bo effected in america Anie if washington was the lather father of his e country 0 antry p abraham lincoln was her redeemer t r in death ho has conquered mi many by enmities and ma many by hatreds hat fint reds redi Thet inic t of his death the nit manner I 1 ii of his ili death and the causes of I 1 liis death all all were necessary to the grand results that are to t 0 follow f t Is in that almighty being who notices tile fall of a sparrow regardless of the death of lovers of their country and humanity the ilie glorious martyrs of liberty I 1 R there i not an influence ii springing from froin their death assort 9 04 of divine daviu 0 lafr t let leaping pug from froin their gory graves rai ranging ill 9 itself among the mighty forces of tile the e ornal eternal t god that are n overturning everywhere overturning and hastening tho the grand day of jubilee dhori millions of mankind will receive their birthright their god given inheritance e liberty thus then in our borrows wo we fall fa 11 back spoil r i I 1 upon the sustaining siai of tho the christian Christ lail that god go gove governs riis the world the death of our beloved president is not an evid evidence once that god has abandoned us as a people but rather rathe r an all evidence of the exceeding glory ho lias hns in reserve for us as i tt nation the enemies whose unreasonable able hatred the pure puro life of mr lincoln and his stern ad horance to 6 principle only exasperated wil will le conquered by his death wo mourn a groat fallen patriot but though our eyes are aro dimmed with tho the te tears ais offa ofa manly m auly sorrow we t can see sec glimpses glimps cs of the lofty uses orthe great greaf of the grand design to fo be accomplished by the great death in T the liou hou bereavement of families when the father tile the headon head of that little home that rp republic 1 bublic or of affeT affection tion is cold aud and silent in ind cath fes 1 l land and ih 0 difference of pro prosperous days tire are all fol forgotten gotten hallowing influences fluen ces now n ow flood the heart ennobling edalina el Alina processes ar arc 0 there evolving th tare a calming down of the storm stormy passions in the solemn presence presen ce till and d beneath tho the dark shad bingoff win goff death as hatreds ahti die sa 56 will it bo be with my misted mic ted country gitry rr r ar our noble president has men fallen but in falling lie ile has hag conquered what anmon could r r 1 Hi Ali jatho is the death of ninfi edmi anun alfo aaili of hatred is ia tho blit birth of love eve and lovo love binds c von even enemies to tho the cause of freedom therefore therefore I 1 I 1 sorrow sorro wi but I 1 hope As aa a patriot 1 loved the illustrious dead because he be loved his country better than his fame beba tico lie he was ever faithful to her purposes true to her go gc uius blur and at lust a martyr to her great principles 1 I loved him bim because I 1 discovered in him tile tho elements of sturdy manhood consecrated to his country s glory consecrated to fl the ic cause of lib liberty or ile ho was the peoples friend ho he had bad no nd interest chehad he had the heart of a noble father full of kindly sympathies and generous impulses in ili the infill position in which his country tr y p placed laced him though ellough weighed down with thelast the vast responsibilities of the great trust committed to his keeping he cherished the same feelings of kindly regard and of neighborly sympathy as in his private station so BO that the humblest citizen in the land bouli approach the plain honest unpretending president of a mighty people confident of h a cordil tl welcome a warm abarm pressure of the hand indicating indicating the possession of a noble heart and wor words is of cheer words of sympathy whatever his sorrows or his big wants sprung from tho the toiling struggling masses of the great nation he had a heart hen to feel for them and words 0 of f sympathy to cheer and camf comfort ort them I 1 I 1 loved him because of his hie m many estimable 11 tit qualities of head and of heart I 1 loved him because lie he was devoid of every sentiment of malignity and hatred even towards his en enemies benemie emie review his life in no act of his adain admin administration astr a tion during the trying ordeal of four perilous years do we discover anything like vengeance it was an ineffaceable bable sense of duty to hini himself self and to god it was nn all und undying anz fidelity to the principles that are arc the basis of free democratic republican institutions that bore him up and urged him on in the high stern mission of his life for its tenderness his heair was li like k e tile heart of n little child at etwas was not in in his nature to exult over the fallen or to crush even the ilie enemies of liberty his was a great and magnanimous heart bhat wept over the er crimes atnes of oc those who were hawking at the generous gon gen crous heart of i their ameir country and seeking to destroy dc stroy the alle most glorious govern government ever eve rs sanctioned nud and smiled upon by Ah almighty god cod mr lincoln regarded even the traitors or ns as the children or of our america in the cabinet be helas was their great advocate advocat c pleading ta their beir cause tind asking for mer y vengeance find and yet 0 my mv god he fc was assassinated as if lc he lind been a tyrant the blow that ersuler liis his noble bearc was the most terrific blovin that ever full fell upon the south it was aimed nt at tile the nation s life perhaps its results will be fearful on the nations enemies the great mediator the tha good father of liis his people who would have exhausted the resources of his generous nature in pleading the cause of his very enemies standing between them and the aroused wrath of nn an injured people that great man whose sympathies would have licali healed I 1 their abas ghastly ly wounds and saved them from ft a crushing humiliation whose ine r sage nf amnesty would have leave awakened a glad clad jubilee eveia even inthe inae r regions 0 gionis of des 0 1 aaion was assassinated by a pretended lover of liis his country and of liberty the grent great success of tile the nation over armed arn cd rebellion the benr prospect of a termination to the dreadful struggle gle and the re of pence eade union union and liberty had opened ope ned heart of our president and had lie he been allowed to live he would have bave made generous concessions ces to the southern people but who will now plead their cause i whose voice will now cry spare 0 parc the insensate insunsa te children of a too generous gen e I 1 rous government ern ment it may be that excess of pity in the overflowing tenderness of his gen crous crous h heart c art amr lincoln lae lived vj e mad majc e concessions concessions ditico consist iu 1 ent cut with wit li gods gd grand and stupendous purposes respecting america it may be that the full consummation for which we have bec bean n ngon fl kaufling kru struggling fling for yeara ds a people would ba have a ie failed aile a of its accomplishment now this our god the auni guardian dian ond and defender of liberty would not permit f tho the blood of every slain hero in our holy wat must and will have its grand results the gennina ting seeds of great principles will not ik aad be eradicated or destroyed As god is true the harvest the ahe holy purposes of fi freedom must and will be realized b etli blut at a sf 1 11 ll g er a rm 6 astoor a f aut heart amm a ani mm ore 0 fein iless will willit it be that mento me antal lynnd and p physical h y sica 1 energies of coreter no reter VOlcan ij force and war nes necessary essary to bi bring ing about tho the grand deau 1 ld h I 1 coll sum t r do not afat kii know ow l but gock cici we th ond and today to day I 1 bow bufore him and an 7 lev cven 6 f godan in thy sigbe 11 or ia iso lt it Mourn Mournful full I 1 1 B rr oiva I 1 aap am becalel beans tile the great of 1 e fo was I 1 so far from despairing I re or of alj tl public with my ralth in tho th fla phy of gods administration of affairs with my confidence in 1 I tle tri all of right light with my knowledge r hini him we mourn to bodny oiny I 1 lean can even dow an of see sec that grander far grander r result asu I 1 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