| Show AMONG THE IMMORTALS all nations of the world have so written abraham lincoln Qt vf I 1 I 1 C T 1 R G A laj sr I 1 ad yo qu icv bolS bolste tl oth cart w 0 conco coie ro r 9 lb t toa b ded doii c tl td d to ta 04 N popy fo it ja aji 1 i I t tre it re cald eal ra anio e tie r 1441 r takht C 1 wt tr attro 4 betke abl fat bt 07 or oa CUN CV ba ost rost r ved and and ao 0 o dad caeg 10 le cd end rac c evl t ard r ant CT 0 oo 00 t t ebs oa 04 idt ta W e W i bae co core coc C to adte Z ts port 09 c or ti ciyou br yOU IK b cmaj relt td 0 C ja lio avat ti alif om ives live tbt rbt 14 ya 11 th q rj iod priar pr I 1 we W w e do va iut 7 i larr femc alj da clod of we e C crot badt ba dt we vt choi ilo IM hc abne reci onci 0 stow lecO 1 hec he c tive fr 0 e 0 01 poo poor power to 0 o ot or afe wold la w 11 ll itt rate nor 0 10 dpn r mern ber itt e ty hac haic bv but t r t teat ef bt ze tte d dd d 1 8 or V 3 1 to ae b ded arted cited bre to fo aw e U mashed MS hed orvah h cl c y wrino tae hee he e hc h c t ha bow S r so 30 nosy nob 11 if iiii e 0 wa vib to bt be hare ha to th cheit eit ett tac 1 l afore bore is abb tb tAo oa 07 adv te ho hoofed oved ov ed cleaod we e ibm ij to atit cwt cat cats o jhc they octh e att cill all ade ot aa we e here h oki boive tt ty dedd tall not 4 ve d ed e 7 air kat st tha or anclee god il knee baeb artl 90 ao edor ard tuf met ay tre PC deop by i tk lk people not oa thi ct j I 1 oliver wendell holmes slid said that one man Is always almas three tareo men the man as he sees himself the man as others see him himond and the man as god sees him we know how abrahim abraham lincoln saw himself lincoln s estimate of lincoln was mas a very cry modest humble and moderate one we inow how honn other people now see abraham I 1 lincoln in the light of the translations of his actions by b results and by time N ve e can I 1 el brently believe that abraham lincoln as god saw sam him brought neither reproach ciach nor contra diction to say the avast to the con caption of him b the people ot of the earth when they came to understand him in the light of the events to which bich 5 he will mill ever be sublimely ed in human estimate while his Is a fame and a service this republic for manifest reasons malel remembers and observes all nations of the world write him film among the immortals and the ascent of every one of them to better things Is sym pathetically assisted by the force arid and the fragrance fia grance of his career here ile he la Is gradually becoming idealized that Is not to be regretted ills ideal ration is only th it revelation of him from the skies to men as god saw him when the hearns received him out of our sight we are glad our goNel government limont and our people make mahe his a holl holf day we rio aie amaie that it is difficult to hold the observance loance of his birthday to solemn ceremonies or m within memo rial se services rices that is the law of the effect of ho holidays lidas among free peo pie as di distance in time increases from the deith death of the entirely greit the significance is less in the celebia tion ol of the time than in the fact of setting it forth bv law and by senti sent ment as a hollday at all that fact is in itself a transcendent transcend ant tribute individuals will act accord ing to their temperament or their ron con dit editions ions but the nation as an IndIN Idu alt by suspending its business il bv ceasing from its contentions by biang in ing ing its activities of government to a hilt halt on this of its armi arc cal gently great modern man pays a trl tri bute s cio biown n of to his m work ork and to ills his woith and that thal Is the su preme and the universal homage N e trust thit that the idealization ot of lincoln will mill alaa always s continue that the endeavor to reduce the of him will cease or will mill never nener sue site aeed we have haie no with the petty endea ende voia aNois which haie hae been put forth to that effect in the case of washington the instincts of kanj man kind bind have measured them small who bo have haie tried to reduce the heroic ap of washington in the alleged intel Inte interest est iest of truth the endean endeavor or has never nener enlisted large minds or large souls and the little ones it his has en listed have hane reduced even themselves by the endeavor As it Is with ith washington so should it be with his one peer in our history whose annl anniversary Is now at hand ban the idealization of both gives us its the real men puny efforts to that id idealization e aliza tion affect not the of 0 the men any more than tle the slime of flies files affects the stately columns on which flies may light or crawl those ot of us who iio saw and met lincoln in our boa boyhood hood are not vet et far bea beyond end the middle period of life they can never nener feel that their experience in meeting him did not register the high water vater mark of their lives here so felt those who mho in former generations met washington the two to washing ton the grandest of human character 3 and lincoln the most human of grand characters should never nener be dif alt ferent in the minds or hearts of americans brooklen eagle |
