Show Y Years cars but Add Luster Lustor to Name and Fame of Martyred President leach passing year rear adds nc new luster to o the tame fame of ot that great groat American hose rhose place in history of ot this land ranks ranka with that Hint of ot him who was ns first firstIn In n the tho hearts of ot his countrymen About his Illustrious name new v glories shine thine as ns time goes goos on and retreating JI brings him more majestically Into nto view like some lome towering moun moun- peak which can an hest be s. s see afar oft ff Into the lit lift and character of ot Lincoln are being heinie Interwoven thin Imperishable fabrics of ot spiritual ItT Ity ty romance and Imagination As he lee recedes and thus receding comes comel more mure completely within the tho scope cf of human luman understanding the world claims him ilm The uncouth mystic sprung from he the loins of a 11 primitive people nul nur- nur turell at nt this the breast of ot poverty schooled In n the university of the wilderness b In hardly more than a n single generation a 11 figure with n universal appeal nn an Inspiration everywhere on onearth earth to mankind struggling against the odds of fate No Ao people has bins con con- contributed contributed n a nobler figure than his hats to the shadowy annals annuls of tradition The Tho Instincts which actuated his career of devotion to his country lie dp deep p In the breasts of his hll fellow tellow citi clU z Bens zens ns Americans In honoring him pay tribute to themselves Cs for tor they produced pro pro- him halm reared him halm sustained him and offered him to tho the service of ot hu hUe manity In the hearts of ot n a people from tom whom no so splendid a n product can come must be he a n nobility of character sacred and end Immortal In this lies tho the hope of America In Jn the years years to come In this hits reflection that so en long as fill the Meals of ot the splendid pest past are cherished cher char l taped and preserved each ench generation will breed a man mon to meet moot nn an urgent D need ned IJ In keeping alive tho the flame name which burns boms at lit the altar of Lincoln the men urea end and women to whom he dedicated his Immortal soul maintain a 8 beacon light to guide their faltering footsteps along tho the WilY way to better and nobler things |