| Show VETERANS HONOR ABRAHAM Patriotic Societies Unite to Cele Cee Birth of the th TRIBUTES TO HIS MEMORY the flis T eI ioa i ff t Ute the Who iso I Inee The rhe aae st at J morr hail Mt lt is tsy Mid and ely thru The nIa p m is 1 II In Ne waa d without and aDd tile U Post t It B G 0 Iter of th tb G A Are re and nd be the th albe alber ot r that other took put In the Ibe tn tIn the Ut b War r 1111 of O I ot at the I 1 A R B sd d Id IdIa Wr War wu was offered by br Me Mep p if 11 lt wr nil ien dr j 1 by the O 1 R band nd i 1 were sung lIn by Mrs Mr Emm Ram Raan Ramy y orrl and n Don and wr by MI Miss MI Miss Land std and Harold A ot of the Wall the gInn patriotic eon lofts by the F M tb n The Elite colored quartet was wn heard oard In a number of peah Ir The h of Ute the were rot CoL M M Rev ev P A Simp Simpkin kin Col F I L 4 and J I iC Dar Dat npr Col Sterrett read a portion of th Ih p h delivered b President yesterday at Xv Jv the th of t tb mortal Lincoln OL 01 ol 1 sd d In the m ot of we nd In ulu ot of the earth or above the nr mu valleys valley cud aud with cor tin tbt tower high hh above bov and their fellow bon above lI clouds cloud that obscure and the torn I that rage race In lower lofty lotty peaks are aN eternally by the KOlden by b day I by the crystal of the tan stars by byI They Rem to be In leacue with I 11 iio of nature In their I r ho groans and andI I 1 and from their tb the and roars So In human affair In all nations DAtion In alt all times we e find men endow endowed Ith who have bava flet above and dominated th Lr They too seemed med to be In with and to command the mye mya leriou fo that dominate the Ill have developed vel ped iii hi all the tha ot of human bUlDAn activity Some ot of th blessed and aDd the thenIe TIIe nIe other have done quite quit Ute the re I 1 They TM and all LI have haa I I 1 theIr times time and left their Im I 1 Upon humanity Aae As we dwell In lul theme the a or of many of lit I ties In our m W We 1 the tho pea AiWa Julius ter r Hannibal Cyru Ald tM the Well Cromwell Yoe Yon Von and d Gt Geore or GRANT AND down to out our own U Um and d dun un try tb the two IWO u that at n command 0 our attention are re I 1 1 11 Grant ud and Abraham LAn oin In Names Name that will loon loom grant anti and high In alt all Ute the s to oom linked In their greatness and aDd glory Ilor We Ve are ambled to do hen or lIr to the latter l WhAt hat a glory and I hilt hili sacred memory At the tion of this mn man tsar tean conic come unbidden t to my eyes end aDd m my beNt rI rises In my throat For I 1 bad personal contact WIth him In th the latter y year or of the tha Wr war a and d up to the Urns time ot of hi his death of have I 1 hid held In mine mm ht hi ROOd hand the hand thai th the proclamation that gay freedom to ie and I learn fId ed to k regard recard him with wonder aed devotion Idolatry What a history Is iM hi hiBorn hiBorn Born y year ago In a lug 1011 cabin la in laa ina a remote and aad sterile part of Kentucky In poverty and ot of uneducated and par nt In a without book or school or or cur ur or op for tor tion botn to a lire life of at p pen en erty and ill III requited toll toil We see him walking mile to borrow end and at after atter the day labor we over overlying Iy lying prone proa on tb the puncheon n floor of t the Io cabInS cabin reading ud and by the dickering light lIht of th the wood lire dl In the rude pia living doe loe to nature and 84 w wisdom lCk m day by day dILY Later Lter a captain In the Black Hawk Indian WK wa a au ur a member of the a member of Con then an nt let ht ot of the famous and popular f Stephen A Doll Douglas In a debatin tour Ih Illinois In a contest teat for tor the United later Iter the nominee over leward eward and Chase ChaIN ud and other I ot of hi his party for the presidency hi reelectIon In the slaves h Pd lIy th the war and nd then lIMn ala aka a I dEth th WITH CONTEMPT What he be cain Into the th he I we waa by b tM the treat t and nd famous men h he i about him In hi cabinet is with con I A demonstration und nd revelation to the trained and accomplished iward ward bla hi of eLate ot of the mental I graap the wisdom and I for of Lincoln came m when In be and modi modified wardi reply ply to on her de demand mand for the re relearns with an apology of Mason and coin ni Ion to England and aM Franc who had been taken by from a British skip when they were on OD ODthe the Atlantic on their way to and by h his 11 wise diplomacy caved veel II us from complications compilation and perhaps WU wr with the ut of the 8 Hut But on n they all U earn came to recognise and own idin u aa leader Iader and the domin sting tor force In the of the th country Th The army anny and the treat m mot maa ot of the People loved trusted end and fol fl lowed loved him ceiling him In lovinc t ta Uncia Abe By ine he w abused vilified cud and misrepresented duro dur during in ing hi bl life time But Bilt after hi his death I there bent bu ha come hI his fullest l Is a theme them for val vol volun 11 un Utile can be said d In s ute address 4 HI tern irow ro with the y year His Hie memory will always be bea a glory lerr to h his Inspiration to the h hand end and the aspiring boy bora and young men Dlen not only of but of the worM world Our country i united free cr great t pp and and nd th the world end and the rece I is better bettar freer and aud r tonu Lincoln lived AU All honor h him In bo honoring n him w we must honor REV P A Rev P A saId d In part w We are he her to honor the work ork a athis th this greatest American the Ideal Ideel sen In and nd humanitarian who wan nt by led God to be b Ih the of this n an tiun 1 31 I is 11 no to of him a as the brightest t name of tile the ot of history Olle no shadow esi the be ot or the immortal ton who e hand ran tb the bell or of liberty that ha echoed round the world gave Lincoln not to America but tu to humanity and aM ot of that Abr Abraham m stands tand tod today JUt en the tha Who ho will tie be bean an Ideal I In American 4 life a aa Long Ion am u lbs country shall Lincoln lowly lott lofty lovable stands unique In his bla tIIe and ministry I K Is th lbs without tho who hv borNI the fur for men America has In ID bl I her r rt greet set t heritage ot of n 11 tion has bu lifted ft solos nail man to IMo be bethe the Ideal Idal ot of lu its people ople But towering above them all I 1 this colossal figure ur d In Ute the of Abraham u The lime that moves mon so ly Iy ua U from Ih the bitterness and strife ot of h his Oa day leue him but the higher bIr and obi to the vision of f aM lb age Ioda h he is more than the ot Jt a great r l people 11 1 lie be is Ie one of at the of hu humn marl marlIt It itt Th Tb world jolt Johl In l a tribute of luV love to him for tor b hi was P II lIfe of mm to io thu whole world The only anniversary ot of the ther wire r a thine pol possible wes tinder Ut u a auspices u of the men n vito ho Uv lives with the great t mat II A ha apt pt a Ie to today day sout out lb be merot fir r ut the greatest lives the hu t r known The Tb Ut We w vs remember Is Ismar I ImoN moN mar t an n AmerIcan It ItIe Itis is Ie with mud that we the great Hat gift ft ot of God In lbs lit fit of to lb problems and tb the ot of Abu Aboy all th the secret ot of his hili I lit power lay lat firstly In a 1 Ini oh but riser n of 0 lie hi helen Vlon and It its end and purpose I When the mighty pillow ut of a 1 iii dream m Iii r in bloody ruin shah hy by the h oC 01 human Mt III ii iia a brain aid soul hi I Ia his was a In that d mn men ut ot Ih north and n south silk II t d did d nut not die di nor can au he A Am ort aid mile u us Is e lbs life merv n lee Del and problems of tomorrow the hIgh road 0 of wall the white whit ye of nt th the In Ing III u to that thel Hr HrIc ice Ic ii to tM earth which Ie I lb I ii ot of tM hi lead Id and md If In his hie spirit hod hili hi charity America 11 mob Int Into thaI hid tomorrow the taw palton will II a flit fill the God I hay u un n P I tit I Ute the w we thank and fOr thy memory and nd this glad rIad feast that mark a cycle of thy undying In and lid character w we pled pledge our ourselves selves In sImple eo to be fOr fOrmen formen men u and God In th the measure of our ur lM best t citizens of service working our heritage and nd our history |
