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Show 3 '.xH ji AMONG THE IMMORTALS All Nations of the World Have So Written ij' '19 1 Abraham Lincoln ' H o tKj 0"Wt. mfe- coicfi.ed 7 l.brr -tl dfd eH- 'H d t. p'o(xyo7 tkat rJl uY created C(.J "Mo- V. 'H 'P$S3J n e 1 tr . totpe? httk,r tat rat.0, ctK- 'H t- notion io cofcfvd vnrf o ded.civttd C6.0 lo;$J "do "vt iH w m,x on rdfU -attyittljf tKvt v-or. WV bc con to '1 wVio'rwrtfjfcwt thcr Wa tkt Ikrf nM-omt l! ft .s oKodrtker pRr Jfjrf w.KoJd do Sut ,n tK wf? ttnifi. wcckiuc dcdjctoje - we ctvoot eoosttr-fic-wi evjot Kllow-. ttvstJround Thf fa'cwe rrjeo. I'virjrf td dt.wlyo strueMled. 1 btrt, huve coseei'aJ-td e&ovc 0.." poor- power loSddof dt6t. Tht world will Utile 9ote, no" W rsmsrljbcr wrveA -fc. 'H ..y, but Cin Kt ty cKd b" It'isyor- ' A the Umj, rthYvr, to U dtd.W.d here to thfWnJsbtd vvorWCvhleh H t.hotht hi'b" 30 oobjy Wonted. 1 rWk. H ' crf ut tott hr dtdfl&itd to the dfbl f,lrrotM?iatf beore u 7 ll"ior7 Vl Mwri dsd S7c W VjtrttAza dWlSo to 1W C1' wh,U, they're tU lol mtMrtd.valoo -thti w hre htfKJ r.jeTvft tfjt i.c dtd bvc died" in ve.,0 Ut tbfc uodar Grod, 4KI rywc-efttw blftK tKe people, skn oot pn'yhj.ortj thjlTevrt . Oliver Wendell Holmes said that ono mnn Is always thrco men, tho man ns ho sees himself, the man as others sco him, and tho man ns God sees him. Wo know how Abrnham Lincoln saw himself. Lincoln's estlmnto of Lincoln was a very modest, humble nnd modcrnto one. Wo know how other peoplo now sco Abrnham Lincoln In tho light ot tho trnnslntlons of his actions by results re-sults nnd by tlmo. Wo can reverently bcllevo that Abraham Lincoln ns Cod saw him brought neither reproach nor contradiction, contra-diction, to sny tho lenst, to the conception con-ception of him by tho people of tho earth, when they came to understand him In tho light of tho events to which ho will over bo sublimely related relat-ed In human estimate. Whilo his Is a famo and a scrvlco this republic for manifest reasons, mainly remembers nnd observes, all nntlons of th6 world wrlto him nmong tho Immortals, nnd tho ascent of every ono of them to better things Is sympathetically sym-pathetically assisted by tho forco and the fragrnnco of his career here. Ho Is gradually becoming Idealized. That Is not to he regretted. His Ideal-,lzntlon Ideal-,lzntlon Is only that revelation of him from tho skies to men, as God saw him when tho henvens received him out of our sight. Wo nro glnd our government and our people make his birthday a holiday. holi-day. Wo nro nwaro that It Is difficult to hold the observance of his birthday to solemn ceremonies or within momo-rial momo-rial services. Thnt Is tho law of tho effect of holidays among freo people, peo-ple, ns dlstnncs In tlmo Increnscs from tho denth of tho entirely grcnt. The significance Is less In the celebration celebra-tion of tho time thnn in the fact of sotting It forth by Inw nnd by sentiment senti-ment ns n holiday at all. That fact Is In Itself a transcendant tribute. Individuals will act accord-Ing accord-Ing to their temperament or their con- 11 dltlons, but tho nation ns un Indlvldu- 11 nitty, by suspending Its business, by 'Lfl ceasing from Its contentions, by bring- ':H ing Its activities ot government to a halt, on this birthday of Its prc-cml-ncntly groat modern mnn, pays a trl- buto's crown of tribute to his work and to his worth, nnd that Is tho su- .M prcmo nnd tho universal homage. Wo trust that tho Idealization ot Lincoln will always continue; thnt the VM endeavor to reduce tho measurement of htm will cease, or will nevor sue- , coed. Wo hnvo no sympathy with tho petty endeavors which havo been put forth to that effect In tho case ofi Washington. Tho Instincts of raan- kind hnvo mensured them small, who, hnvo tried to reduco the heroic np-prnlsal np-prnlsal ot Washington in tho alleged Interest of "truth." Tho endeavor has IH novcr enlisted large minds or large H souls, and tho llttlo ones It has en- H listed hnvo reduced even themselves by the endeavor. 'M As it Is with Washington, bo should "fl It bo wltlr his one peer ln our history, whoso nnnlvorsary Is now nt hand.1 H Tho Idealization of both gives us tho H real men. Puny efforts to impair thnt H Idealization nffect not tho proportions H of tho men nny moro thnn tho si lino, H of flics nffocts tho stately columns H on which files may light or crawl. H Thoso of us who saw and met Lincoln H In our boyhood nro not yet fnr boyond H tho middle period of life. They enn , H never feel that their experience In ' H meeting lilm did not register tho high H wnter mark of their lives here. S01 H felt thoso who, In former generations, H met Washington. The two, Washing- H ton, tho grandest of human characters, H and Lincoln, tho most human ot H grnnd characters, should never he dlf- H fcrcntlntcd In the m.nds or hearts ot B I Americans. Brooklyn Knglc. H |