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Show I Lincoln Day. I' ' ' M t 1 Next Wednesday will be the 9?th anniversary I ' hWn Nil f the bIl th f Abrallam Lincoln. It is a sacred B pl dfty In tno calendar of our nation If grows more sacred every year. A great soul his, none greater. His life made- a punctuation point in history, the second most pronounced since the coming of the Messiah. When the masses of men first saw him he was walking in a fiery furnace. From it he emerged without the smell of fire upon him. He was set aside to accomplish a mighty work and it was decreed that at the close of that work he should consecrate it with his life. He fulfilled his, mission, humbly, grandly, fully ful-ly and then passed on. The world looked on. It had no understanding1 of him? at first he- was per-sued per-sued with anger, hate and jeers. He" heeded them not, but pdrsited his duty. When the work was finished, men looking through thoir tears saw that he was- transfigured and realized that all the time they had had no conception of how high of soul he was, how exalted was his nature, how supreme he had stood among the children of men, how deathless Was the fame he had earned. The anniversaries of his birth should be kept as sacred days. |